There were two events held to commemorate the the 25th anniversary of Black July. 'Forum for Life' held a workshop during the day on the theme 'Is War the Solution' and then a cultural in the evening. During the event there were a number of activities such as distribution of handbills, street drama, a picket line, singing of peace songs and everything culminated with the Lighting of Candles in front of the Fort Railway Station.
About 100 participated in the workshop. The purpose was to study how we could together develop a strategy to face suppression and war.
'The Christian Solidarity Movement' held an ecumenical service on the same day at the Philip Neri's Church at 3.30p.m. and then all joined the cultural event at the Fort Railway Station at 4.45 p.m. The feed back that I got was that the prayer service has been very inspirational.
When all joined the cultural event in front of the railway station a picket was held opposing war, suppression of democratic freedom and disappearances. Of course there were a few at the scene who expressed their opposition to what was happening there. We were happy that those few individuals stopped with that and did not create any disturbance there.
The cultural event ended with the lighting of candles. It symbolized the determination of the participants to continue the struggle to end the war and all suppressions and restore democratic freedom in the country.
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