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Anti-terror group to aims 'to defeat terrorism at its source' | |
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Survivors of UK terrorist attacks and bereaved relatives have launched a group to lobby the government over its anti-terror policies. | |
Survivors Against Terror wants more effective measures against terrorism and greater support for its victims. | |
Founders include the husband of murdered West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox and Dan Hett, whose brother Martyn was killed in the Manchester Arena bombing. | |
Brendan Cox said the group would try "to defeat terrorism at its source". | |
He added: "What terrorists want is for us to turn against each other, to hate each other. | |
"And what we want to do as a country is to come together in a united way and make sure we defeat it". | "And what we want to do as a country is to come together in a united way and make sure we defeat it". |
The organisation's other founders include; Gina Van Dort - who was injured and lost her husband in the Tunisia beach shootings, Jo Berry - whose father was killed when the IRA bombed the Grand Hotel in Brighton, Sajda Mughal - who was in the next carriage to one of the 7/7 London bombers and Travis Frain who was hit by the car during the Westminster Bridge attack. | |
The group said as well as supporting the work of the police and security services it would aim to tackle "hate speech that drives terror", especially on social media. | The group said as well as supporting the work of the police and security services it would aim to tackle "hate speech that drives terror", especially on social media. |
Martyn Hett was one of 22 people who died when Salman Abedi detonated a homemade bomb during a concert at Manchester Arena in May. | |
Mrs Cox, the Labour MP for Batley and Spen, was shot and stabbed to death by Thomas Mair in Birstall, West Yorkshire, in June 2016. | |
Mair was jailed for life for killing the 41-year-old mother-of-two. | Mair was jailed for life for killing the 41-year-old mother-of-two. |
The judge at his trial, Mr Justice Wilkie said the murder was carried out to advance a political cause of violent white supremacism, associated with Nazism. | The judge at his trial, Mr Justice Wilkie said the murder was carried out to advance a political cause of violent white supremacism, associated with Nazism. |
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