Bingu leads Malawi ceremony for poppy day
President Bingu wa Mutharika led the Remembrance Sunday for the country’s war at a somber ceremony at Lilongwe’s Cenotaph.
President Mutharika honoured the Malawian fallen soldiers who fought in the first and second world war.
At 11 a.m., the President who is Commander-In-Chief of Armed Forces, joined hundreds of citizens, diplomats, ex-servicemen and civilians in the traditional two-minute silence.
The silence was broken by an artillery blast and the sound of the Malawi Defence Force band playing the “Last Post.”
President Mutharika followed by Army Commander and Police Chief, government officials, diplomats laid wreathes of red paper poppies at the foot of the Cenotaph in memory of those who died.
The remembrance service is held every year on the nearest Sunday to the anniversary of the end of World War I at 11 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918 and now pays tribute to the dead in all conflicts, including in World War II.
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