Indonesia: A civil war drowned Aceh, in the north-west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, was devastated — it suffered the first hit from the world's deadliest tsunami. Banda Aceh, the regional ...

THE AGREEMENT that has brought peace to Aceh stipulated that the rebel forces of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM, to use its local, but internationally familiar acronym) would give up their arms. In ...

Indonesian soldiers unload bodies of tsunami disaster victims at a mass grave in Banda Aceh, January 13, 2005 Djafaruddin says he has recovered from the trauma of collecting bodies when the world's ...

Five years after the Boxing Day tsunami, Aceh's people are still recovering Keri's smalls hands are clasped tightly together, as she concentrates on remembering the day that a giant tsunami swept her ...

People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of modern history’s worst ...

A woman comforts her daughter after prayers at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh Some Indonesians sprinkled petals at mass graves in Aceh to mark the tsunami anniversary Under the shade of trees at a ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia Dec. 26, 2024 3:21 p.m. A relative of a victim of a 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami participates in its 20th anniversary at Tsunami Memorial Park at Ban Nam Khem, Takuapa district of ...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia — People gathered in prayer and visited mass graves in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Thursday to mark 20 years since the massive Indian Ocean tsunami hit the region in one of ...

Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh province, survivors and mourners recited Islamic prayers, commemorating the deaths of tens of thousands killed when a tsunami decimated the ...

A woman comforts her daughter after prayers at a mass grave in Indonesia's Aceh - Copyright AFP Yasuyoshi CHIBA Under the shade of trees at a mass grave in Indonesia ...