Japan: Hiroshima commemorates the victim of the atomic bombing 80 years ago

In view of the world, the Japanese city of Hiroshima thought of the victim of the atomic bombing 80 years ago. During a commemorative ceremony on the anniversary of dropping the devastating US atomic bomb, Mayor Kazumi Matsui called on the young generation to continue the fight against nuclear weapons: “Our youth, managers of coming generations, must recognize that misguided decisions in questions of military spending, national security and nuclear weapons can have completely inhumane consequences.”

At 8.15 a.m. (local time) – the time when the US bomber Enola Gay had dropped the first atomic bomb with the name “Little Boy” about Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 – the participants of the memorial in Hiroshima took a minute’s silence. Tens of thousands of residents of Hiroshima were immediately killed, a total of 140,000 people died by the end of 1945. Three days after dropping over Hiroshima, the United States dropped a second atomic bomb over the city of Nagasaki. Shortly afterwards the Japanese Empire surrendered.

Last year, the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo was honored by survivors of the nuclear weapons deprivations on Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Nobel Peace Prize. The grass root movement received the most important peace price for her efforts for a world -free world. UN Secretary General António Guterres warned in a message that the risk of nuclear conflict is growing again. The same weapons, which Hiroshima and Nagasaki devastated, are now again considered as a means of pressure.