California, US- (SFGate)-Nearly 200 people gathered at Oakland’s Evergreen Cemetery on Sunday to dedicate a newly completed memorial to the victims of the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown, Guyana, organisers said.The afternoon ceremony came after a judge last week denied a motion seeking to block further use of the monument at the cemetery, where more than 400 unidentified and unclaimed victims are buried in a mass grave.The US$45,000 monument, which consists of four large granite slabs embedded in the ground and etched with the names of the dead, has sparked controversy because it includes the name of People’s Temple leader Jim Jones among the 917 other people who died.James Cobb, who lost ten members of his family in Jonestown and was in Guyana at the time of the tragedy, listens to a speaker at Oakland’s Evergreen Cemetery on Sunday at the unveiling of a permanent memorial to those who perished.“People from around the country came to be here,” said Fielding McGehee, who edits the online Jonestown Report and who lost in-laws in the violence.“It was a beautiful day and everything that we hoped for all came together,” he said.Jones’s adopted son, Jim Jones Jr.,cheap nfl jerseys online, has said the memorial represents the truth of what happened on November 18, 1978, in Guyana.“It was a great moment to sit back and see it all come together and come to fruition,” Jones told The Associated Press by phone after attending the ceremony. “What I really appreciated and felt was real joy in that everybody talked about healing. The theme was healing, and that excited me.”Jynona Norwood, a Los Angeles minister who lost 27 relatives at Jonestown, filed a lawsuit on May 12 against Evergreen Cemetery, its president, Buck Kamphausen, and its director, Ron Haulman, accusing them of violating an agreement with her for an alternative memorial that would not include Jim Jones’s name.In ruling against a preliminary injunction, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert McGuiness said Thursday that denying access to the memorial would cause substantial harm to those who wish to gather there to honour the victims.After more than 32 years of waiting for a proper memorial, any further delay “would continue to expose the victims and families of Jonestown to a continuing paralytic state of inaction,” the judge wrote.Norwood had said previously that the new memorial sends a message that “it is OK to honour a mass murderer.” She compared including the name of Jones to having the name Osama bin Laden on a September 11 memorial.“Where does it end when you talk about Jim Jones, a mass murderer,” she said by phone Sunday. “What are people coming to when he is honoured?U.S. Rep. Leo Ryan of California, three newsmen and a church defector were ambushed and killed on a remote jungle airstrip by temple gunmen while visiting Jonestown on a fact-finding mission to investigate reports of abuses of members. Jones then orchestrated a ritual of mass murder and suicide at the temple’s nearby agricultural commune.The ruling Thursday settles only part of Norwood’s legal challenge. Her lawsuit also seeks unspecified compensatory and punitive damages.Attorneys for both sides are scheduled to confer with McGuiness by phone Tuesday to set a settlement conference date.作者: xuejun1xu8 時間: 2017-3-19 22:31 標題: discounts on oakley sunglasses 63233 Damen Nike Air Max 90 Billig
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