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Tsunami: 5th Year Commemoration‎
Today, throughout Aceh, our community is in silence and praying to remember their wives, husbands, children, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, grand parents and friends who were taken away by the Great Tsunami 2004.
We remember and value those family and individuals who bravely and unselfishly helped the injured, the sick, the homeless and those who were traumatized.
We thank the International NGOs, Military, Donors and Development Agencies who lifted us out from hopelessness to progress and freedom from war.
With the new knowledge that we have gained and lessons that we have learned, we are better prepared to mitigate risk of future natural and man-made disasters so that no one will be left behind in our struggle for a peaceful and prosperous Aceh.
Today, throughout Aceh, we are in silence to remember the great darkness of the Tsunami event, the goodness of family and friends who helped, the progress that has been made; and we are also in silence to prepare direction of our future. - Iskandar Bakri -
Aceh (pronounced Ah-chay) is a special and autonomous territory (daerah istimewa) of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. Past spellings of its name include Acheh, Atjeh and Achin. It is thought to have been in Aceh where Islam was first established in Southeast Asia. In the early seventeenth century the Sultanate of Aceh was the most wealthy, powerful and cultivated state in the Malacca Straits region. Aceh was the closest point of land to the epicenter of the massive 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which triggered a tsunami that devastated much of the western coast of the region, including part of the capital of Banda Aceh. ... More
