Pink Floyd co-founder and guitarist Roger Waters recited a poem by Jamia Milia Islamia student Aamir Aziz, at an event in London. According to reports, he was speaking at an event to demand the release of jailed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. A video of Waters reading out the English translation of Aziz's Sab Yaad Rakha Yayega (Everything will be remembered) is now going viral.
Waters described Aziz as a 'young poet and activist in Delhi' who is involved in a fight against Modi and his 'fascist, racist Citizenship law'.
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd reads Aamir Aziz's 'Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega' and slays Narendra Modi. #DelhiRiots2020 pic.twitter.com/LAsDDD01Sq
— Samiran Mishra (@scoutdesk) February 27, 2020
He read out the following lines.
Kill us, we will become ghosts and write
of your killings, with all the evidence.
You write jokes in court;
We will write justice on the walls.
We will speak so loudly that even the deaf will hear.
We will write so clearly that even the blind will read.
You write ‘injustice’ on the earth;
We will write ‘revolution’ in the sky.
Everything will be remembered;
Everything recorded.
After reading these out, Waters can be seen saying: “I think this guy's gotta future'.
During the anti-CAA protests, Aamir's poem was widely shared on social media.
The widespread violence in northeast Delhi since Sunday has so far claimed 27 lives, including that of one police man and an Intelligence Bureau officer.
While Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday blamed "outsiders" for the violence, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, who was tasked with bringing back normalcy, assured that the situation is under control, while placing the blame on “some criminals”.
