Why?

Of all the videos I've seen of the Asian Tsunami, one sticks in my mind: it sticks in it and twists in it like a knife, it sticks in it and won't let me pull it out. The video below (now deleted) shows a boy playing on the beach being swept away by the tsunami, one casualty out of possibly hundreds of thousands, but I think about this clip, this boy all the time, he's in my thoughts when I wake up at night: who is he? Who are his parents? Why was he swept away? And you can multiply these questions hundreds of thousands of times, and still get no answers. This BBC flash slideshow illustrates the pain of those left behind: this pain you can multiply by millions.