Police said some 1,000 Thais and foreigners attended the ceremony at Ban Namkhem in Phang Nga Saturday morning, while 200 people gathered at Patong beach in Phuket for prayers and to see flower wreaths laid in commemoration.
In Thailand, where the tsunami killed 5,395 people according to an official toll, religious ceremonies were held on the beach in Phang Nga on the west coast, which was worst hit, and on the southern tourist isle of Phuket. In India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands, multi-faith prayers were held in the archipelago's capital Port Blair for about 4,000 people killed by the tsunami across the island chain. Until a sophisticated network of seismic monitoring, satellite communications and underwater sensors is in place, some coastal communities are mapping out escape routes.Special church services were held in the city of Kanniyakumari, where large numbers of Christians live, while fishermen in the city of Cuddalore did not set out to sea to fish on Saturday as a mark of respect. The Indian Ocean region has been struggling since last year to implement a tsunami warning system like the one that already exists for the Pacific with country's disagreeing over who should issue alerts. then you are going to create new problems along the way." "If you don't take time to do proper planning, and ask people what they want. "If you don't do things well they will collapse in a couple of years," she told AP on Sunday. assistant secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said people have to be patient. While local economies are recovering, 80 percent of the 1.8 million people displaced by the disaster still live in tents, plywood barracks or the homes of family and friends, according to the aid group Oxfam International. This is the mother of all home improvement projects," aid worker Paul Dillon said. "Every meter, every yard of pipe in the city of Banda Aceh is ultimately going to have to be replaced. They're still waiting for the rebuilding to reach them.Įven in the city of Banda Aceh, where a lot of areas were untouched by the tsunami, the earthquake's ground-ripping upheaval destroyed the city's sewer and water system. There are a lot of people still living the way they were pretty much in the days after the tsunami, some 70,000 are still living in tents. Looking across the part of Banda Aceh that was hardest hit, it seems like little has been done, CBS News Correspondent Barry Petersen reports – houses turned to hulks, fields littered with debris stretched for miles.
says, of which 75 percent has already been secured.īut the pace of relief and reconstruction has been criticized. Some $13 billion was pledged to relief and recovery efforts, the U.N. The tsunami generated one of the most generous outpourings of foreign aid ever known. "I pray that God will give me strength to raise my only son who survived," she said, breaking down in tears at a mass prayer in the Acehnese village of Kajhu. "It is important for me to come here to pray for my family, may they rest in peace," said Darmawati, 39, who lost her husband, two daughters and both parents in the disaster. People prayed at mass graves Monday for children swept away by the tsunami, walked on white sand beaches battered by the waves and attended prayers at mosques, temples and churches.
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