Japan: Nagasaki commemorates the victim of the atomic bombing

With a new appeal for the abolition of all nuclear weapons in the world, the Japanese city of Nagasaki thought of the victims of the atomic bombing 80 years ago. Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki urged the growing danger of nuclear war. “This existential crisis of mankind has become directly on earth for each individual of us,” said Suzuki in his declaration of peace. He called on the world to learn from history and to ensure that Nagasaki remains the last city that had to suffer an atomic inferno.

At 11.02 a.m. (local time), the time when the atomic bomb “Fat Man” thrown over by a US bomber, the participants of the commemorative event took a silent minute. At that time, around 70,000 people were killed by direct influence in Nagasaki alone, 75,000 more injured. Three days earlier, the United States had already devastated Hiroshima through an atomic bomb with a lower explosive force.

Symbol of the horrors of war

Under the impression of the destruction, the Empire Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were known as the first and so far only cities that are devastated by an atomic bomb as a symbol of the horrors of war – and for peace.

Today’s world is plagued by a devilish cycle of confrontation and fragmentation, said Suzuki. He called to overcome it. The power of civil society shows that the Japanese organization Nihon Hidankyo was honored with the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

The grass root movement had received the most important peace price for her efforts to do a world of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki’s mayor once again called on the government of his own country to join a UN contract for the ban on nuclear weapons from 2017. Suzuki’s colleague in Hiroshima from the Japanese government had called for this three days earlier.