INDIAN prime minister Narendra Modi on Saturday (11) said the 9/11 terror attacks in the US were attacks on humanity and such tragedies can only be avoided by inculcating human values.
He said this on the 20th anniversary of the devastating attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people. The twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York were hit with two hijacked passenger airplanes while some more tried to attack the White House and Pentagon. Operatives of terror outfit Al Qaeda hijacked the aircraft to carry out the attacks.
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“Today is September 11th i.e., 9/11! A date in the history of the world that is known to have struck humanity,” Modi said.
Smoke pours from the twin towers of the World Trade Center after they were hit by two hijacked airliners in a terrorist attack September 11, 2001, in New York City, the US. (Photo by Robert Giroux/Getty Images)
Mentioning that a century ago, on September 11, 1893, Swami Vivekananda took the global stage of World Parliament of Religions held in Chicago and introduced the world to the human values of India, PM Modi said, “On this day, Swami Vivekananda stood on that global stage and introduced the world to the human values of India.
Today the world is realizing that tragedies like 9/11 will have a permanent solution, only through these values of humanity.”
The US invaded Afghanistan soon after the 9/11 attacks and remained there for nearly 20 years. They left recently under the presidency of Joe Biden, paving the way for the Taliban’s return to power in Kabul.
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