Stand up on the right side of history: PM asks world on massacre in India

ISLAMABAD, Feb 27 (APP):Prime Minister Imran Khan Thursday reiterated his call for the world community to stand up and take notice of the ongoing massacre in India.

In a tweet, the prime minister shared a video clip showing English songwriter, singer and composer Roger Waters calling the Indian citizenship act as fascist and racist law and singing a poem written by a young Indian poet Aamir Aziz.

The British singer was addressing an event held in London demanding the release of jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and before reading out the English version of his poem “Sab Yad Rakha Jayega”, Waters said the poet was fighting against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘fascist and racist citizenship law.

“When musicians who have all their lives rallied for peace, start taking notice of the massacres in India, it is time the world must stand up and take notice. Stand up on the right side of history,” the prime minister remarked.

The original composition by Aamir Aziz was released around two months ago, when New Delhi first started protesting in huge numbers against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
Here is the English poem that Waters recited:

“Kill us, we will become ghosts
And write of your killings, with all the evidence
You write jokes in court,
We will write ‘justice’ on the walls
We will speak so loudly that even the deaf will hear
We will write so clearly that even the blind will read
You write injustice on earth
We will write revolution in the sky
Everything will be remembered,
Everything recorded.”