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In New York, Hibakusha call for nuclear weapons abolition
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In New York, Hibakusha call for nuclear weapons abolition

The Japan Times·No Author·about 1 month ago
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New York – Hibakusha, the survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, called for the abolition of nuclear weapons in a demonstration in New York on Sunday, yelling "No more Hiroshima, No more Nagasaki." More than 200 hibakusha and other people, including children of atomic bomb sufferers and activists, marched for a kilometer to the U.N. headquarters in Midtown Manhattan one day ahead of the start of the 2026 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference, according to the U.S. organizer of the demonstration. In a speech at a rally before the march, Jiro Hamasumi, the 80-year-old secretary-general of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Nihon Hidankyo, or the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, said, "We must not send our children and grandchildren, as well as people all over the world, into an atomic bomb hell." The review conference will be "a turning point" for the treaty, he added.…

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