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Kurukkal Madam, Sri Lanka – 17 December 2024
1. Various of waves hitting the beach
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ARCHIVE: Kalumunai, Sri Lanka – 2 February, 2005
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2. Various of "Baby 81" sleeping in hospital
3. Mother of "Baby 81", Jenita, picking him up from cot surrounded by hospital staff and media
4. Jenita handing over baby to nurse
5. Nurse holding "Baby 81"
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Kurukkal Madam, Sri Lanka – 17 December 2024
6. Jayarasa Abilash, "Baby 81" looking at old newspaper clippings telling his story
7. Jayarasa looking at photos of his family visiting an American News channel’s office after the parents were reunited with him
8. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Jayarasa Abilash, Baby 81:
“Now I only take it as a code word, if you want to find me out, access that code word.”
9. Various of Abhilash studying in his room
10. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Jayarasa Abilash, Baby 81:
“When my father showed me (the news about Baby 81) it didn’t look a big deal to me. I understood it better after I reached a certain age, until then I knew it only as a disaster but I wasn’t aware it was huge.”
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ARCHIVE: Kalumunai, Sri Lanka – 17 February, 2005
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11. Baby Jayarasa Abilash carried out and handed over to parents
12. Jenita Jayarasa, mother of Jayarasa, crying and holding him
13. Various of Murugupillai Jayarasa, father Jayarasa Abilash, carrying him through the streets
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Kurukkal Madam, Sri Lanka – 17th December 2024
14. Various of Jayarasa posing with his father for the camera
15. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Murugupillai Jayarasa, Father of Jayarasa Abilash:
“People who went to check in the hospitals, may have given their names as the parents of the child in their disappointment of losing their own children. But none of them went to court nor police. There was a public call to all those who said the child was theirs to subject themselves for DNA testing, but none of them came forward.”
16. Various of the house where Abilash was residing when the tsunami struck, ocean visible from the home
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ARCHIVE: Cheddipalayam, Sri Lanka – 24 November 2005
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17. Jayarasa or "Baby 81" playing with soft toy
18. Jayarasa’s father showing newspaper clippings and identity card
19. Close up of Jayarasa’s identity card from the hospital
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Kurukkal Madam, Sri Lanka – 17th December 2024
20. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Murugupillai Jayarasa, Father of Jayarasa:
“Those days his friends in school used to call him Tsunami, he complained to us. In those times I consoled him saying ‘son you are unique in being the only one to have such a name in this world.’ This is what I tell him ‘you are the only one to have the name Tsunami and you are only one to have the name 81’. I have told this constantly and brought him up a man of 20 (years-old).”
21. Various of Tsunami memorial in the front yard of Jayarasa’s home
22. Jayarasa and his father covering the memorial with a transparent plastic sheet
23. SOUNDBITE (Tamil) Jayarasa Abilash, Baby 81:
“If I have survived after so many had died I believe some big power beyond us is protecting me. I always look at my parents as gods and it is these gods who are protecting me.”
24. Various of the beach
STORYLINE:
Pulled from the mud as an infant after the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, and reunited with his parents following an emotional court battle, the boy once known as “Baby 81” is now a 20-year-old dreaming of higher education.
First he found his mother, then his wife. But their infant son was missing.
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