In pictures: Tsunami rehabilitation

The new permanent settlement has been built exactly where the old one was but with one key difference. It now maintains a 100 metre buffer with the sea, under Sri Lanka’s new laws.

But the memories of last December continue to haunt the Dilimanis. "We are afraid," says Titus, "but what can we do? We’d liked to have moved away but there’s no other place to go. Land is at such a premium here that we had to stay put."