Hiroshima citizens stage sit-in calling for abolition of nuclear weapons on "Nevada Day"
Jan. 28, 2010
by Uzaemonnaotsuka Tokai, Staff Writer
Members of the Hiroshima Congress Against A- and H-Bombs organized a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the A-bomb victims in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to make an appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons on January 27. This date, known as "Nevada Day," marks the anniversary of the first nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada test site in 1951.
Roughly 70 people including atomic bomb survivors took part in the sit-in which lasted for thirty minutes from 12:15 in the afternoon. They held a banner which read "International protest calling for a comprehensive ban against nuclear tests." With an eye on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to be held in New York this May, Sunao Tsuboi, 84, chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, said, "We must resort to all possible means to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons."
The participants adopted an appeal with nine points including the closure of the Nevada nuclear test site, the success of the NPT Review Conference, and their opposition to the research, development, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. After that, they offered a silent prayer together at the Cenotaph.
The Hiroshima Congress Against A- and H-Bombs also held an executive board meeting on the same day and announced that they will dispatch 11 people including second-generation A-bomb survivors and representatives of labor unions to the NPT Review Conference. They will take part in a demonstration march in New York as part of the delegation from the Japan Congress Against A- and H-bombs.
(Originally published on January 28, 2010)
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Members of the Hiroshima Congress Against A- and H-Bombs organized a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the A-bomb victims in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park to make an appeal for the abolition of nuclear weapons on January 27. This date, known as "Nevada Day," marks the anniversary of the first nuclear test conducted by the United States at the Nevada test site in 1951.
Roughly 70 people including atomic bomb survivors took part in the sit-in which lasted for thirty minutes from 12:15 in the afternoon. They held a banner which read "International protest calling for a comprehensive ban against nuclear tests." With an eye on the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference to be held in New York this May, Sunao Tsuboi, 84, chairman of the Hiroshima Prefectural Confederation of A-bomb Sufferers Organizations, said, "We must resort to all possible means to call for the abolition of nuclear weapons."
The participants adopted an appeal with nine points including the closure of the Nevada nuclear test site, the success of the NPT Review Conference, and their opposition to the research, development, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons. After that, they offered a silent prayer together at the Cenotaph.
The Hiroshima Congress Against A- and H-Bombs also held an executive board meeting on the same day and announced that they will dispatch 11 people including second-generation A-bomb survivors and representatives of labor unions to the NPT Review Conference. They will take part in a demonstration march in New York as part of the delegation from the Japan Congress Against A- and H-bombs.
(Originally published on January 28, 2010)
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