Dover-Sat.Memorial to 58 Chinese dead opens
pirate | 15.06.2005 15:13 | Globalisation | Migration | Social Struggles | South Coast | World
Report in The KM Extra (and elsewhere) June 15th.
A memeorial to the 58 Chinese people who were found dead in a lorry in Dover is to be inauguarted on Saturday 18th June, the fifth anniversary of their deaths.
The memorial,which has been financed by donations from a large number of individuals and groups over the last six months, will be on the seafront near the roundabout next to the Eastern Docks. (bottom of the A2 Jubilee Way.)
It will be opened at 1pm by Dover MP Gwyn Prosser (Lab), as part of a service which is held each year to mark the tragedy. The wording on the memorial will be in both Chinese and English.
Rev Norman Setchell, chair of the Dover Asylum Seekers Support Group said " We hope that this ceremony will be supported by as many people as possible".
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Indeed, I hope as many as possible will be able to make this occasion.
A memeorial to the 58 Chinese people who were found dead in a lorry in Dover is to be inauguarted on Saturday 18th June, the fifth anniversary of their deaths.
The memorial,which has been financed by donations from a large number of individuals and groups over the last six months, will be on the seafront near the roundabout next to the Eastern Docks. (bottom of the A2 Jubilee Way.)
It will be opened at 1pm by Dover MP Gwyn Prosser (Lab), as part of a service which is held each year to mark the tragedy. The wording on the memorial will be in both Chinese and English.
Rev Norman Setchell, chair of the Dover Asylum Seekers Support Group said " We hope that this ceremony will be supported by as many people as possible".
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Indeed, I hope as many as possible will be able to make this occasion.
pirate
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Burned Into Memory
16.06.2005 08:47
Not all of us can attend the memorial unveiling. Pirate may be playing the violin, (I've heard he's always on the fiddle!). By happy coincidence, this weekend is the start of Refugee Weak. We must all resolve to see starngers as first and foremost fellow human being. at least, that's what it says on my cereal packet!
Smelly Scrote
No violins !
16.06.2005 16:20
No Mr Scrote- I don't play the violin (nor on the fiddle where did you here such scurrilous
nonsense?)
I'll try to get there- I have a prior Friends of the Earth stall on Sat though...
pirate