An Acehnese boy
plants a paper-made sakura or cherry flowers with messages of hopes
written on them by Indonesian and Japanese students, during the
commemoration of 6 years since 2004 Indian
Ocean tsunami organized by the University of Tokyo's Earthquake
Research Institute outside Baiturrahman Grand Mosque in Banda Aceh,
Aceh province, Indonesia, Dec. 25, 2010.
The event was part
of a series of commemorations of devastating earthquakes that
struck West Sumatra in 2009, Aceh in 2004 and Kobe in 1995. The
Dec. 26, 2004, tsunami killed 164,000 people in the Indonesian
province.