A woman carries oil lamps during a commemorative function for the victims of the 2004 tsunami disaster, marking its 20th anniversary at the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery in Galle on December 26, 2024. Emotional ceremonies began across Asia on December 26 to remember the 220,000 people who died two decades ago when a tsunami devastated coastal areas around the Indian Ocean, in one of the worst natural disasters in human history. (Photo by Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)