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Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Former Thai hotel workers hold batik and candles during a candlelight vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of the tsunami at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. A group of 25 former Khao Lak hotel workers who lost their jobs after the last December tsunami joined hands and made the 120-meter (264 feet) long hand-made batik chronicling the tsunami and unveiled in Bangkok Friday. The Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami killed nearly 5,400 people on Thailand's Andaman Sea resort coast, about half of them foreign tourists. © AP/WWP

12/26/05 -- Anniversary of the Indian Ocean Tsunami
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Former Thai hotel workers hold batik and candles during a candlelight vigil to commemorate the first anniversary of the tsunami at a hotel in Bangkok, Thailand, Friday, Dec. 16, 2005. [© AP/WWP]


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