BANDA ACEH, Dec 26 — Thousands of mourners flocked to mass graves today in Indonesia’s Aceh province to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, one of the worst natural disasters in history. On a grassy field in Aceh Besar district where at least 47,000 victims were...
Visitors walk through a corridor as they visit Aceh Tsunami Museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, December 19, 2019. — Reuters pic
“It’s been 15 years but even until now every time I see an ocean, even on TV, I shudder and feel like a big wave would be coming soon,” she said. Some half a million people were left homeless by the catastrophe that destroyed much of the province.
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