Encouraging the active participation of residents is essential to preserving disaster memory, maintaining memorials and ...
The tsunami struck in the wake of a 9.1 magnitude earthquake off Sumatra island on Dec. 26, 2004. Its massive waves traveled thousands of miles, wreaking devastation and killing more than 230,000 ...
Memory canonization is evident in the creation of disaster monuments and commemoration events, including in Aceh.
Tearful mourners prayed on Thursday as ceremonies were held across Asia to remember the 220,000 people who were killed two ...
20 years later, one of the Matara train’s carriages sits outside the city’s Tsunami Museum as a haunting reminder of Boxing ...
Twenty years after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami caused unimaginable devastation across 14 countries, reminders of that ...
Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on Thursday to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami ...
Qurrata Ayuni, a 28-year-old survivor of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated her hometown two decades ago, has ...