Tsunami victims remembered in Jaffna 11 years on
26 December 2015

The tens of thousands killed by the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 was remembered today in events across the North-East. The tsunami, which hit the coasts of the North-East and the South of the island on December 26th, 2004, killed over 35,000 people. The United Nation High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) said five days after the disaster that almost two thirds of those killed were in the Tamil homeland of the North-East. See more here.