Browsing Tag: Massacre

Since his 6-year-old daughter was killed in the Connecticut school shooting, Robbie Parker has been encouraging people to try to find peace in tragedy.

Members of the Norwegian royal family,.. attended the memorial. At times during the service the royal couple appeared to be overwhelmed by emotion. Jens Stoltenberg, prime minister, said at the cathedral service in Oslo: "Every single one of those we have lost is a tragedy in itself. Together, it is a national tragedy."

A young Norwegian politician used her blog to describe being caught up in the Utoya massacre. Prableen Kaur, 23, was one of the 650 people on the island as Anders Behring Breivik started shooting.

It’s for that reason when asked about his motivation after so many years of arduous effort that Dr. Kapany replies, “A community that forgets its martyrs falls into a constant decline and suffers from repeat persecution. You have to remember your own martyrs, and in our case, we had so many of them over the entire history of the Sikhs.”

Eighty-odd kilometres from Delhi, past lush mustard fields, stand a few crumbling structures in village Hondh-Chillar. A dove coos plaintively and one may be tempted to soak in the rural freshness, but for the horror that unfolded at the spot in 1984. A group of Sikh men, women and villagers praying at the ruins of a gurudwara catches attention.

Mohinder remembers her words, “I needed to make peace with all the violence in my life.”... “What about my father?” he asked. “What about my peace?”