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| A Grey Sunday Morning in Bangor
It was a grey Sunday morning, 5 February 2006, when a group of people met to mark the deaths of 101 British soldiers in Iraq. We were also marking the death of one little girl. Under the flag of peace, outside Bangor Cathedral, we spoke of nine year old Aya al-Astal, shot in the neck and stomach by an Israeli soldier because she had wandered too near to the security wall in Gaza. This tragic death happened on the day of the Palestinian elections amd we ask that the suffering of the Palestinians and their democratic wishes be recognised. There will be no peace until the needs of all sides are recognised, and we ask that the funds, so desperately needed, are not withdrawn from Palestine. ‘100 Chances to Learn our Lesson’ We read the names of the British soldiers, a task far harder than I had imagined. These were not merely names, but people who had spoken to us through their families and through the terrible circumstances of the war in Iraq. We join those asking for the troops to be brought back home. We also remember those many thousands of Iraqis whose deaths have gone without record. Our thoughts are also with their families. This was not a formal event, but a feeling moment in the passage of events that can so easily overwhelm us. We will continue to oppose illegal occupation and the destruction of the lives of innocent people. Linda Rogers Bangor & Ynys Môn Peace & Justice. Photos
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