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Tsunami Scandals – Secret Ties26 Dec

Tsunami Scandals – Secret Ties and Theater

The chaos, the criticism, the commission. The Swedish government's actions during the tsunami disaster were condemned from several quarters. This is a timeline of the political events.

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The Meetings That Saved Malin's26 Dec

The Meetings That Saved Malin's Life

Malin Sävstam was convinced. She would die. The grief she carried with her after losing her husband and two of her three children in the tsunami was unbearable. Thanks to the priest, love, and yoga, she finally chose life after all. Life didn't turn out as I thought it would, but it still turned out okay anyway, she says.

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Scars from the tsunami remainTop news26 Dec

Scars from the tsunami remain – but so does the help

Still today, 20 years after the tsunami disaster, there are Swedish survivors who have psychological problems due to what they experienced – and saw – that Boxing Day morning in Southeast Asia in 2004. It is not too late to get help, says Filip Arnberg, associate professor of clinical psychology.

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This happened during the first26 Dec

This happened during the first days after the disaster

The waves, chaos, death. The Christmas holiday 2004 saw one of the worst natural disasters in modern times. This is a timeline of the tsunami and its consequences.

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