AKEL denounces and expresses its grief for the terrorist attack in Manchester
AKEL C.C. Press Office, 23rd May 2017, Nicosia
AKEL expresses its grief and abhorrence at yesterday’s terrorist attack in Manchester, which has caused the death of 22 people, including 12 children under the age of 16, and injuring dozens of people. They were just ordinary people who were coming out of a concert.
The terrorist attack is a bloody continuation of the targeted killings of ordinary citizens that cannot be justified in any way. We denounce in the same strongest possible terms these terrorist attacks whether they are carried out in Manchester, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Paris, Berlin and St. Petersburg.
The underlying causes do not stem from the ethnic and religious status of the perpetrators, but from every kind of fundamentalism that finds plenty of fertile ground in the pain, hunger, poverty and misery of millions of people; in the sufferings caused by the ongoing imperialist wars, the armed conflicts that are flourishing as a result of the militarization of international relations and the arming of terrorists to serve international interests.
AKEL expresses its sincere heartfelt condolences to the relatives and friends of the victims and to the British people in general.
