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Published online 7 January 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news050103-10
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Mass graves not necessary for tsunami victims
Report says need for rapid burial to avert health risks is a myth.
In a field outside Banda Aceh, the Indonesian town devastated by the tsunami in the Indian Ocean, over a thousand dead bodies were unceremoniously bulldozed into a mass grave at the end of December.
The indignity of such burial methods adds to the suffering of the survivors and potentially robs them of a chance to identify the bodies of relatives and friends.
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