'DON'T USE OUR GRIEF TO PEDDLE HATE'
Families of Lee Rigby, Jo Cox, Tim Parry and David Haines unite for We Stand Together campaign against terror
DEFIANT relatives of terror victims have united to warn fanatics not to "dare use our grief to peddle your hatred".
Murdered MP Jo Cox's widow Brendan Cox has joined with the families of David Haines - killed by ISIS in Syria - slain fusilier Lee Rigby and IRA bomb victim Tim Parry to film a message of unity.
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The video shows the families urging the country to remain strong and united in the wake of the London terror attacks and Manchester bombing.
Brendan Cox speaks to those who exploit the murders of innocent people to fuel division, saying: "Don’t you dare use our grief to peddle your hatred".
Colin Parry, whose 12-year-old son Tim was killed in the Warrington bomb attacks in 1993, also delivers a message of defiance against terror.
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He says: "Action gets a reaction and it perpetuates the problem.”
While Lyn Rigby - the mum of murdered soldier Lee Rigby - defiantly states: "We stand together to show them we’re not afraid.”
The video also features a strong message from Mike Haines, whose aid worker brother David was beheaded by British ISIS executioner Jihadi John in Syria in 2014, who says "terrorists want us to carry on the hatred".
It has been put out on on behalf of The Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation For Peace as part of its #WeStandTogether campaign in response to the attacks in Manchester and London.
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Eight people were killed on Saturday after three terrorists rammed into pedestrians on London Bridge before hacking at revellers in pubs and restaurants nearby.
It came two weeks after 22 people - including an eight-year-old girl - were killed when Salman Abedi detonated a nail bomb in the foyer of the Manchester Arena at an Ariana Grande concert.
And just months before that, five people died when Khalid Masood ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before storming Parliament and stabbing PC Keith Palmer to death.
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