A Sri Lankan novice Buddhist monk lights an oil lamp on a mass grave where tsunami victims were ...
A Sri Lankan novice Buddhist monk lights an oil lamp on a mass grave where tsunami victims were buried in Peraliya. A Sri Lankan novice Buddhist monk lights an oil lamp on a mass grave where tsunami victims were buried, exactly three months after the disaster in Peraliya, southern Sri Lanka, March 26, 2005. Hundreds of people flocked to Peraliya on Saturday and lit 2,500 oil lamps and paper lanterns in remembrance of all tsunami victims. Saturday marked three months since the disaster, which killed an estimated 182,000 people around the Indian Ocean with a further 106,000 reported missing. Pictures of the Month March 2005 REUTERS/Anuruddha Lokuhapuarachchi