Vigils are being held across the US mourning the six members of the Sikh community killed in a shooting rampage in Oak Creek in suburban Milwaukee in the state of Wisconsin on Sunday.
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"The
one key thing that's missing in this entire debate is the term
"terrorism"… we haven't heard many American media and socio-political
leaders echo that same sentiment [as the authorities]. Imagine if a
brown, bearded man walked into a Wisconsin church and killed six white
people, would anybody in America even pause to call it an act of
terrorism? Absolutely not." - Arsalan Iftikhar, an international human rights lawyer |
The alleged gunman, 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, was also killed after he opened fire on a police officer. Page was an army veteran who was discharged from the military in 1998. He was also a white supremacist.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights group that tracks hate groups in the US, says it has been tracking Page with concern for more than a decade.
Page, who reportedly described himself as a member of the 'Hammerskins Nation', was trained in psychological warfare and served in the US army from 1992 before being demoted and discharged in 1998.
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