HOTT 107.5 is calling on all Bermuda residents to join a peace rally on August 31 and help put an end to the kind of senseless violence which is said to have claimed the life of 18-year-old Kellon Hill.

Mr. Hill was preparing to leave for college this past Tuesday but died from stab wounds at a beach party at Elbow Beach on Saturday night.

"I am making a forceful request that everyone that is able support this rally," said HOTT 107.5 host and Senator Thaao Dill.

"I have no idea what that means in real numbers but everyone who thinks Bermuda is precious and her people are valuable need to be at this event."

The hope behind the peace rally, to be held from 3 to 6 p.m., is to unite the community and attendees should use that time to "stand and declare their love for one another". The location for the rally will be announced at a later date.

Sen. Dill said the event was "just the right thing to do, really more than anything else, to be as active as possible in trying to do what we can to help.

"People will not only feel better but understand what they can do to correct the situation, to help us understand our own value, and by extension the value of those so sadly and so obviously disconnected from us."

This will be the second peace rally organised by HOTT 107.5 — the first was in 2006 after the shooting death of Jason Lightbourne.

According to Sen. Dill the rally in 2006 generated a lot of positive feedback in the community, but the effects weren't long-lived. "I think, to be honest we (as a community) did not follow through like we should have with the positive and healthy energy that was generated on the day," said Sen. Dill. "We went to the rally and we were reassured on our righteous hope for the future — and then we went home and it ended there.

"But that won't happen this time. I think collectively, at this stage, watching this happen over and over again, we are all incapable of apathy. We, all of us, are done tolerating our unwillingness to commit to and value ourselves."

Sen. Dill added: "The purpose of this rally is to preach to the choir, but in doing so, to motivate them to go out and sing outside their church, outside their home — with the people that require it most.

"This is all about restructuring comfort zones and the falseness of them. Because I am not comfortable with this. I know that no one is comfortable with this and as such we have to act like it."