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“A year later, Atlanta remembers the 8 people killed in spa shootings”
NPR, March 12, 20228:35 PM ET
Deepa Shivaram
Activists and community members are preparing for the one year anniversary of the deadly shootings at Atlanta area spas when a man killed eight people, six of them of Asian descent.
The anniversary will take place on March 16 but events began Saturday with a community remembrance day. A larger rally against anti-Asian racism and violence called “Break the Silence” is planned for Wednesday at the Georgia Capitol. Other cities such as Chicago, New York, Houston, San Francisco and Washington D.C., will host their own versions of the rally as well.
Roughly 200 people gathered Saturday near Atlanta at the city’s memorial to comfort women, those who were forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II. The event featured art, music and poetry to commemorate the somber week.
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“We wanted to leave the actual day, March 16, as a quieter day of reflection. … We wanted to provide space for the families to grieve in whatever way they wanted to,” said Phi Nguyen, the executive director for Asian Americans Advancing Justice in Atlanta.
“The atmosphere is a broad range of emotion right now,” Long Tran, a business owner who is running for state representative in the area and who attended the event, told NPR.
“I think for some people they were like, ‘Oh man, I can’t believe it’s been a year.’ So much time has flown by, so much has been done. And still you feel like there’s a lot left to be done,” Tran said.
One year later, attacks against Asian American women are still a top-of-mind concern
Attacks against Asian Americans spiked once the pandemic began, with the FBI reporting an increase in anti-Asian hate crimes from 2019.
The group Stop AAPI Hate has tracked nearly 11,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans from March 2020 to December 2021, with more occurring in 2021 than 2020.
A majority of those incidents targeted Asian women.
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