1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites

10 years after the tsunami

December 20, 2014

Ten years after the 2004 tsunami disaster in Sri Lanka, the pain remains. Fishermen like Lalith Kumar lost everything: their boats, their houses, sometimes their families. Today they live in a settlement inland, far from the sea. Now big hotels are springing up where their homes once stood.

https://p.dw.com/p/1E7vP
DW Birgitta Schülke
Birgitta Schülke Investigative reporter focusing on human rights abuses and migration in Asia and the Middle East@BirSchuelke