Japanese Hiroshima signs 80 years of American atomic bombing Nuclear weapons news

The mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, warns of the dangers of global military rise.

Thousands of people gathered in Hiroshima To celebrate the eighty anniversary of the world in wartime in the world of a nuclear bomb – where the survivors, officials and representatives of 120 countries and regions were a milestone with the renewal of calls for disarmament.

The western Japanese city was flattened on August 6, 1945, when the United States dropped a uranium bomb, a young boy. Nearly 78,000 people were killed immediately. Tens of other thousands will die by the end of the year due to burns and radiation.

The attack on Hiroshima, three days after the Plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, led to Japan’s surrender on August 15 and the end of World War II. Hiroshima was chosen as a partial goal because the planners around it believed by the American planners to inflate the strength of the bomb.

In Hiroshima Salam Memorial Park on Wednesday, where the bomb exploded almost eight decades ago, delegates from a record number of countries and international regions attended the annual memorial.

Fadi Salama from Al -Jazeera from the park said that the ceremony was revealed in a sequence similar to those in previous years.

Salama said: “The ceremony is almost the same over the years I was covering.” “Eight o’clock begins with children and people who offer flowers and then water to represent the help of the victims who survived the atomic bombing at the time.

“Then in 8:15 … a moment of silence. After that, the mayor of Hiroshima reads the declaration of peace in which they call for the abolition of nuclear weapons around the world,” he added.

School students from all over Japan participated in the “Peace promise” – reading the sayings of hope and memory. This year’s ceremony also included a message from the representative of the United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres and urged world peace.

Hiroshima mayor, Kazumi Matsoy, warned of the dangers of global militarization, and the criticism of world leaders who argue that nuclear weapons are necessary for national security.

“Among the world’s political leaders, there is an increasing belief that having nuclear weapons is inevitable in order to protect their countries,” noting that the United States and Russia still have 90 percent of the world’s nuclear warheads.

He said: “This position is not only confused the lessons that the international community learned from the tragic history of the past, but it also seriously undermines the frameworks that were built to build peace.”

“For all leaders around the world: Please visit Hiroshima and see for yourselves the truth of the atomic bombing.”

Many attendees chanted that call. “It seems like a history that repeats himself,” 71 -year -old Yoshikazo Hori told Reuters. “Folding things happen in Europe … even in Japan, in Asia, it is going in the same way – it’s very frightening. I have grandchildren and I want peace so that they can live their lives happily.”

The survivors of the bombings – known as Hibakosha – faced a once and unfounded discrimination on disease and genetic effects. Their numbers decreased to less than 100,000 for the first time this year.

Japan maintains a specific commitment to nuclear disarmament, but it is still outside the United Nations Treaty that prohibits nuclear weapons.