Dilip Semeviratna places a candle on his father's grave where their former house stood in which his father was killed in the 2004 tsunami, in Paraliya, 90 km (56 miles) south of Colombo Dec. 26, 2009. Sri Lanka observed two minutes of silence to mark the fifth anniversary of the devastating tsunami, that killed over 23,000 people in the island nation. [Xinhua/Reuters] |
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