With all medias making full-geared reports on the tsunami and its aftermath, it really is quite difficult not to hear anything about the disaster even if you, like me, do not watch the news or read the papers regularly.

This might sound really callous, but despite knowing that many lives were sacrificed and all, I have this really dettached attitude towards the whole incident. Afterall, (and I am so very thankful) Singapore was not directly affected and I guess it's human not to be bothered with incidents that do not affect one directly.

That detached attitude I had (and still generally do have towards the incident as a whole) until today when I heard from various sources of the horrendous things that were happening to children in the refugee camps.
Apparently those who are seperated from their parents are being
1) Kidnapped to be sold off as labour or other purposes possibly involving prostitution
2) Killed and having their organs removed for sale to needy and dying patients
3) Raped

I am appalled. Perhaps some people may strike this off as a common phenomenon happening to children born in the third world but the idealist me believes that all children deserve happy childhoods and if nothing else, they are humans. Young and helpless ones at that.
I wish somebody would do something about those poor children and get them back to their parents. It is tragic enough that so many are dying because of the natural disaster. It depresses me (and probably any other reasonable person who hears of this) further to find that even with Mother Nature having thrown a huge tantrum and killing so many, it is Man who commits felonies that are even worse than Nature's forces of destruction. I can't speak for the suffering children in the affected areas, but if I were in their shoes, I'll probably wish that the tsunami would return and just drown me. I mean, in a rather morbid way, I'd rather be fish fodder than raped.
It is appalling enough that child-trafficking and sexual offences against children are widespread even in times of peace, but nothing makes these acts more heinous that the fact that they are being commited now in the aftermath of a natural disaster when people's guards are down and children are seperated from their parents because of circumstances...