26/11 attacks commemorated in New York
29 Nov 2013 4:56 AM IST
Members of the Indian-American and American-Jewish community held a commemorative ceremony to pay tribute to the victims of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, calling for perpetrators of the carnage to be brought to justice.
The commemorative event marking the fifth anniversary of the attacks was organized on Tuesday by the American India Public Affairs Committee along with the American Jewish Committee Asia Pacific Region.
Those gathered at the ceremony observed a moment of silence and lit 12 candles, one each for the number of sites in Mumbai that were attacked by 10 militants belonging to Pakistan-based terror group LeT during the three-day carnage in November 2008 that killed 166 people and injured several more.
Among those killed in the gruesome terror attacks were several foreign nationals including Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, who was a rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai, and his wife Rivka. Indian consul general here ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay condemned terrorism in all forms and said the scourge has no religion, caste or nationality. ‘The gift of the 21st century is the word called terrorism. It is time that we come together in a stronger and more determined manner to fight terrorism so that we do not hand over this phrase to the future generations,’ Mulay said. He said India has been a victim of terrorism for many years but before the 9/11 attacks the world did not pay ‘enough attention’ to the alarms India had raised at international forums on the growing menace. ‘We need to learn lessons from what has happened and make every effort so that people are not motivated and promoted to resort to terrorism. We have to fight terrorism together and delete the word from our vocabulary.’
The commemorative event marking the fifth anniversary of the attacks was organized on Tuesday by the American India Public Affairs Committee along with the American Jewish Committee Asia Pacific Region.
Those gathered at the ceremony observed a moment of silence and lit 12 candles, one each for the number of sites in Mumbai that were attacked by 10 militants belonging to Pakistan-based terror group LeT during the three-day carnage in November 2008 that killed 166 people and injured several more.
Among those killed in the gruesome terror attacks were several foreign nationals including Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, who was a rabbi and the Chabad emissary to Mumbai, and his wife Rivka. Indian consul general here ambassador Dnyaneshwar Mulay condemned terrorism in all forms and said the scourge has no religion, caste or nationality. ‘The gift of the 21st century is the word called terrorism. It is time that we come together in a stronger and more determined manner to fight terrorism so that we do not hand over this phrase to the future generations,’ Mulay said. He said India has been a victim of terrorism for many years but before the 9/11 attacks the world did not pay ‘enough attention’ to the alarms India had raised at international forums on the growing menace. ‘We need to learn lessons from what has happened and make every effort so that people are not motivated and promoted to resort to terrorism. We have to fight terrorism together and delete the word from our vocabulary.’
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