‘What’s this?’ exclaimed my husband as we came round the corner between the Foreign Office and the Treasury on the edge of St James’s Park.
‘What’s this?’ exclaimed my husband as we came round the corner between the Foreign Office and the Treasury on the edge of St James’s Park. It was the memorial to the 202 people killed in the Bali bombing in 2002. London has acquired a sprinkling of memorials recently — to the women of the second world war in Whitehall, to animals in war in Park Lane, to the Battle of Britain on the Embankment.
The Bali memorial has been there since last autumn, although my husband has only just noticed. It was planned as a ‘permanent memorial to the loss of so many innocent people’, in the words of the victims’ group that sponsored it, and the inscription with the names of the dead makes reference to loss of innocent life.
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