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01/24/2005:

"Washing away history"

It is one of many places in Banda Aceh that has yet to be cleaned up. But the rambling graveyard in the centre of town differs from other monuments in one unique respect - that the dead who are buried there are not Indonesian but Dutch.

When the tsunami swept into the port of Banda Aceh almost four weeks ago, killing at least 70,000 people, it also destroyed much of the city's surviving colonial heritage.

Full Article : guardian.co.uk