India marks 2 years since Mumbai terror attack
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MUMBAI, India – India marked the second anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack Friday with a parade of police forces and renewed pledges to seek justice against the perpetrators.
The three-day assault by 10 Pakistani militants left 166 people dead, as the gunmen ran amok through the Indian financial capital, attacking a train station, a Jewish center, luxury hotels and a cafe frequented by tourists.
"We will never succumb to the designs of our enemies," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. "We pledge to redouble our efforts to bring the perpetrators of this crime against humanity to justice."
The only gunman to survive the assault, Ajmal Kasab, has been sentenced to death in India, but none of the seven alleged masterminds arrested in Pakistan has been put on trial. India repeated its demand that they be punished.
"Once again I call upon Pakistan to dismantle the terror machine operating with impunity in territories under its control and to bring all the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack to speedy justice," Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in a statement.
Officers flanked by special anti-terror vehicles marched through Mumbai on Friday morning from the Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of the attack sites.
Hundreds of students held a giant banner that read "The Great Wall of Mumbai," intending to show how the city remained defiant in the face of the attack.
Government ministers laid wreaths in a commemoration ceremony, while the father of a paramilitary officer slain in the attacks embarked on a bike ride from Bangalore to Mumbai to join a peace march. Families of the victims planned a candlelight vigil Friday evening.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama stayed in one of the targeted sites, the Taj Mahal Hotel, and paid tribute to the attack victims in a speech that pledged solidarity with India against terror.
The three-day assault by 10 Pakistani militants left 166 people dead, as the gunmen ran amok through the Indian financial capital, attacking a train station, a Jewish center, luxury hotels and a cafe frequented by tourists.
"We will never succumb to the designs of our enemies," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said. "We pledge to redouble our efforts to bring the perpetrators of this crime against humanity to justice."
The only gunman to survive the assault, Ajmal Kasab, has been sentenced to death in India, but none of the seven alleged masterminds arrested in Pakistan has been put on trial. India repeated its demand that they be punished.
"Once again I call upon Pakistan to dismantle the terror machine operating with impunity in territories under its control and to bring all the perpetrators of the Mumbai terror attack to speedy justice," Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna said in a statement.
Officers flanked by special anti-terror vehicles marched through Mumbai on Friday morning from the Oberoi Trident Hotel, one of the attack sites.
Hundreds of students held a giant banner that read "The Great Wall of Mumbai," intending to show how the city remained defiant in the face of the attack.
Government ministers laid wreaths in a commemoration ceremony, while the father of a paramilitary officer slain in the attacks embarked on a bike ride from Bangalore to Mumbai to join a peace march. Families of the victims planned a candlelight vigil Friday evening.
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama stayed in one of the targeted sites, the Taj Mahal Hotel, and paid tribute to the attack victims in a speech that pledged solidarity with India against terror.
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