Monday, 18 April 2016

A second disaster awaits Nepal's heritage (Thomas Bell, Al Jazeera)

Japanese tourists visit the Kathmandu Durbar Square surrounded by supported wooden poles, Kathmandu, Nepal [EPA]

The human cost of the earthquake, which struck Nepal a year ago this week, was immense, killing almost 9,000 people and rendering perhaps two million homeless. The response to the disaster has been lamentably mishandled. Most of those who lost their homes are still living under tin sheets and polythene.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2016/04/disaster-awaits-nepal-heritage-160417081759057.html



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