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/ 19 December 2006
Tourists are finally returning to Thailand’s Andaman coast two years after the devastating tsunami, but any attempts to commercialise the tragedy are being snubbed by holidaymakers. The ”tsunami-survivor” T-shirts go unworn, and even the tasteful memorials are apparently being ignored by visitors.
The filming of Aftermath — a two-part miniseries produced by the BBC and United States cable channel HBO, shot along Thailand’s tsunami-battered coast — has set off a debate over the merits of bringing the tragedy to the screen so soon after the disaster.
Rescue workers freed an Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin from a small lagoon where the Asian tsunami had dumped it — returning it to the Andaman Sea in a rare story of survival 10 days after the waves crushed tourist resorts in the surrounding Khao Lak area. The fate of a second, smaller dolphin — believed to be the larger one’s calf — is unclear.