Memorial will be held on Friday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m. in Stanley Park’s Ceperley playground area

THE 38th annual memorial for the 331 victims of the terrorist bombings of the Air India flights from Canada will be held on Friday, June 23 at 6:30 p.m., in Vancouver.

“This 38th annual observance of the greatest air disaster in Canadian history, the bombing of Flight 182 from Vancouver in 1985, will be held at the Air India Memorial in Stanley Park’s Ceperley Playground,” said former MLA Dave Hayer.

He added: “This memorial will not only remember the 329 victims, including 82 children of this terrible terrorist bombing, but all their family members and two baggage handlers in Narita, Japan, who died almost at the same time as a second terrorist bomb bound for another Air India flight exploded prematurely.

“These horrendous acts live on in the memories of all family members of the victims and these annual memorial ceremonies continue to remind us all, that terrorism has no place in a civilized world and that it must be stamped out at all costs.”

Everyone is invited to attend the ceremony.

Hayer said that the annual memorials of this tragedy are organized by family members of the victims.

The Air India Memorial in Ceperley Park was unveiled in 2007 to commemorate the worst aviation tragedies in Canadian history, and to stand as a monument against terrorism.