The British government was urged Monday to set up a memorial day for Palestinian victims of Israeli atrocities as an acknowledgement of Britain's responsibility for the tragedy, head of the Palestinian Community Association in Britain, Ghada Karmi, told the Iranian News Agency (IRNA) Monday.
Karmi added that Palestinians residing in the UK refused on Saturday to attend the Holocaust memorial day.
In a moving ceremony at London's Westminster Central Hall, survivors of the Holocaust and other human atrocities recalled their horrific experiences, said AFP.
Music, readings and dramatic video footage evoked the claimed deaths of six million Jews at the hands of German Nazis during the Second World War.
The service also remembered genocide more recently seen in Cambodia, Rwanda and the Balkans, said the agency.
"We refused to attend the Holocaust memorial, not because we do not endorse its aims, but because we cannot forget that we suffered an enormous tragedy by Jews who claim that they were victims of Nazism," Karmi added.
The ceremony, said IRNA, was also boycotted by the Muslim Council of Britain because "its exclusive nature made no mention of the genocide of Palestinians and other massacres of Muslims."
"No one has ever set up a memorial for the Palestinians or even apologized for
what they suffered," Karmi said.
She suggested that the UK should consider setting up a Palestinian memorial day, saying it would be a "welcome acknowledgement of British responsibility for the tragedy of Palestine," Karmi said -- Albawaba.com
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