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Tuesday, August 7, 2007 |
CommonDreams: "Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba gave the city's 2007 Peace Declaration early Monday morning, the 62nd anniversary of the world's first nuclear attack.
That fateful summer, 8:15. The roar of a B-29 breaks the morning calm. A parachute opens in the blue sky. Then suddenly, a flash, an enormous blast - silence - hell on Earth."
We now know that the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were unnecessary. The capitulation of Japan was in the making and just a matter of a few days. Nevertheless, the US wanted to make a statement to the world and choose to kill hundreds of thousands civilians, which is a war crime.
The Asahi Shimbun estimated there were 237,000 victims in Hiroshima, and 135,000 in Nagasaki including diseases from the aftereffects based on hospital data.
U.N.: "Following is the text of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's message, as delivered by Sergio de Queiroz Duarte, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, to the peace memorial ceremony in Hiroshima today, 6 August:
On this day, the citizens of Hiroshima gather in the shadow of this historic UNESCO World Heritage site to commemorate those who perished in the nuclear attack of 6 August 1945.
People around the world see this solemn ceremony not just as an occasion to honour the hibakusha and to pay respects to the dead; they see it as a powerful reminder of the work ahead in achieving a world free of nuclear weapons."
11:11:51 AM 
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