| People pour milk into the Bay of Bengal as a gesture of respect to the victims of the 2004 tsunami during the 9th anniversary of the disaster, at Marina Beach in the southern Indian city of Chennai. Hundreds of events were held across Asia in memory of the waves that crashed ashore with little warning Dec. 26th, 2004, killing at least 226,000 people in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, Thailand and nine other countries. More than 1/2 the victims were Indonesians, with Sri Lanka and India the next worst hit. |