Tsunami disaster – countries in crisis
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A mother’s grief
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| © UNICEF India/2004 |
| Laxmi lost her 9 years old daughter in the tsunami tragedy |
NAGAPATTINAM, Tamil Nadu, India, 31 December 2004 - Laxmi is a 25-year-old mother who has failed to come into terms with the death of her 9-year-old daughter, Remya, whose body was identified three days after the tsunami tragedy.
“She never left my side, even for five minutes. Where has she gone these past three days?” asks Laxmi, while looking up as if beseeching the Gods to give her an answer.
If God doesn’t give her an answer, she would helplessly wave to people passing by, asking the same question over and over again. “Where is my parrot nosed daughter? I hear the footsteps of my daughter and the jingle of her anklets. Where is she?”
Remya was buried in a four-foot long, three-foot deep grave by the coastline in her village Arumakovil. It’s an exception in a region where mass graves are currently the norm.
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