In Essequibo…

Samaroo remembers wars, suffering at Remembrance Day Service
VICE-CHAIRMAN of Region Two (Pomeroon/Supenaam), Mr. Vishnu Samaroo told scores of people at the Remembrance Day Service, on Sunday, that billions of dollars are being spent on wars and conflicts while millions of people are suffering from hunger, disease, malnutrition, lack of medical care, educational facilities and pure water supply around the world.

He said, in the first World War, much of the fighting took place in Belgium in Europe at a place called Flanders where thousands were killed and hundreds handicapped for life.
Samaroo said great sufferings and loss of lives represent two aspects of the horrors of World Wars One and Two and it is recorded, in history, that, at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in the year 1918, all fighting ceased between the allied forces and the Germans because an armistice or truce had been signed and it was decided that Remembrance Day will be observed on the second Sunday of November each year to remember and pay homage to all those who fought and died for their country in the two great wars of 1914 to 1918 and 1939 and 1945.
He said, when the war ended in 1945, it was described as the most terrible in history and much of Europe and Asia were left in ruins. Some 55 million people were killed in only six years, half of them being civilians.
Samaroo said the world today is at the brink of another war because of the serious tension with more sophisticated weapons of mass destruction.
Relatives of two soldiers from Essequibo who fought in the two world wars laid wreaths at the foot of the Monument in the compound of the Anna Regina Town Council in their memory.
Wreaths were also laid by Samaroo, representatives of Anna Regina Town Council, the Guyana Police Force (GPF),  Guyana Fire Service (GFS) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
Later, Samaroo took the salute from the members of the Disciplined Services.

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