The number of dead in the earthquakes and the tsunami are nearing 150 000. In Aceh, the coast is a scene of utter devastation. Entire towns have vanished.

Prime minister of Thailand promises inquiry on why no warning was issued even when the authorities knew a tsunami was a possible result of the earthquake. But to many these inquiries will come too late.

Our authorities have said that the ambulance flights have been the last chance for our injured, because they wouldn´t have survived in Thailand. Thinking of this, I have to wonder how many thousands of people have died and will die because they will not get the kind of treatment that the evacuated foreigners will get in their homelands. There´s no justice in this. Injured tourists fly home and to possible salvation, the locals are left to die. And those in Thailand are still in a far better circumstances than those in Sumatra.