In light of the terrorist attack on the Sikh Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin Sen. banana Durbin of Illinois chaired a Senate hearing on hate crimes. The hearing revolved around what is being done to chronicle, catalogue and respond to hate crimes, as well as failures by law enforcement and government agencies to prevent attacks like the one in Oak Creek.
It was an informative hearing, with some interesting highlights.
The most touching portion of the hearing came from the testimony of Harpreet Singh Saini who lost his mother Paramjit Kaur Saini in the terrorist attack. He recounted how after the attack he and his brother ate the final “rotis” (flatbread) that their mother had prepared the night before her life was tragically taken by White Supremacist Wade Michael Page.“She had made the rotis (flatbread) from scratch the night before she died,” 18-year-old Harpreet Singh Saini recalled. “Along with the last bite of our food that Tuesday came the realization that this was the last meal, made by the hands of our mother, that we will ever eat in our lifetime.”
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http://www.loonwatch.com/2012/09/sen-di ... ate-crime/
Cheers,
Shafique
