Feeble relief effort is an affront to humanity Scottish Socialist Party MSP Carolyn Leckie issued this press release:
"This is a disaster of horrific proportions and it is not over yet. Countries already living in poverty and squalor have been visited by catastrophe and now face the prospect of populations devastated by disease and thousands made homeless.
"It is an affront to humanity that the world's richest nations can only bring themselves to provide a pittance in disaster relief.
*The US has spent $147 Billion to reduce Iraq to rubble while Britain is spending £1.5 Billion a year to keep troops in
"The response of the Western governments to this disaster for humanity tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.
"At the very least the British government must immediately re-deploy troops from Iraq to assist in this humanitarian disaster and more particularly the 150 health service staff that have been called up for military service must be sent to the disaster zones.
*I'm sure Scottish people will be as disgusted as l am that Europe's stock brokers are more concerned that shares in travel companies and the holiday industry will suffer rather than how companies can do something to aid the relief work.
*Those companies who profit directly from this area of the world should turn over those profits to the disaster relief effort." After the flood: what remains of Banda Aceh (Extracts from a Mass cremation in Tamil Nadu