Years On, Tsunami Still Haunts Aceh – IslamOnline.net – News
LAMPUK – Going to bed every night, 10-year-old Ikra Alfila can’t close her eyes, fearing nightmares of giant waves washing away her fellow Acehnese.
“Even if I wanted to, I couldn’t forget,” the Acehnese child told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in a broken voice on Tuesday, December 22.
“It’s the same for my friends who survived.”
The little girl is haunted by the memory of tsunami waves that smashed into Aceh five years ago.
“I was with my grandmother but the wave separated us,” the young Acehnese recalled.
“I was carried away and then some people saved me. My grandmother drowned,” said Ikra, who also lost her baby brother, mother and grandfather in the catastrophe.
Around 169,000 people were killed and 600,000 driven homeless in Aceh when walls of water smashed into the Indonesian province in 2004.
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