Children's art and the tsunami

December 26, 2005 11:31 PM

Roar: through the eyes of children, one year later, children's artistic responses to the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2005.

Meanwhile baby Tsunami turns one
posted by Rumple (10 comments total)

Also of interest: the tsunami quilt.
posted by Rumple at 11:32 PM on December 26, 2005

Wow. Great stuff. Especially haunting was the UNICEF slide show (fifth link).
posted by meh at 12:18 AM on December 27, 2005

Meanwhile, and Indonesian judge has declared that the tsunami was the result of women being sluts and whores.

"A year after the disaster which many see as a divine punishment, emboldened Islamic hardliners are doing their best to eradicate sin — and women are their prime targets."
posted by Meridian at 12:50 AM on December 27, 2005

Indonesia fn' sucks.
posted by delmoi at 1:00 AM on December 27, 2005

...the Boxing Day Tsunami of 2005.

The tsunami was yesterday?!
posted by FieldingGoodney at 2:46 AM on December 27, 2005

The tsunami was yesterday?!
No, but it's on it's way because God is freaking out in Meta.
posted by Joeforking at 7:10 AM on December 27, 2005

Indonesia sucks, but the people bleed like you and me.

Oh, yeah, 2004, it just seems like it happened last year, which already seems so 2005.
posted by Rumple at 11:57 AM on December 27, 2005

posted by y2karl at 1:07 PM on December 27, 2005

yech... can we please stop calling it the "boxing day tsunami"? most of the people in that part of the world are either muslim or hindu, i believe.

or must we also colonize their grief?
posted by poweredbybeard at 9:57 PM on December 27, 2005

yech... can we please stop calling it the "boxing day tsunami"? most of the people in that part of the world are either muslim or hindu, i believe.

or must we also colonize their grief?

Well, they don't call the Indian Ocean the Indian Ocean either, and they don't call December December, and in fact, all the people affected don't have a common term for almost anything, so what do you suggest we call it in order to not offend some subgroup of victims?

Not to mention there are indeed significant numbers of Christians in south Asia, India and Thailand, particularly.
posted by Rumple at 12:47 AM on December 28, 2005