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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, left, and Minister for Public Affairs Sarath Amunugama, right, walk past a monument for victims during a memorial ceremony on the first anniversary of the tsunami in the Southern village of Peraliya, Sri Lanka, Monday, Dec. 26, 2005. In Peraliya, where the raging waves swept a passenger train from its tracks, killing nearly 2,000, people from around the country and international diplomats joined Rajapakse to honor Sri Lanka's more than 35,000 dead and missing, the second-highest count after Indonesia. (AP Photo/ Eranga Jayawardena)