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Headlines : International

Summary:

The 6 August 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continue to haunt the communities involved, as this ceremony shows. Survivors and their lawyers have also been fighting an ongoing action to force the Japanese government to provide medical care for A-bomb survivors (a request that could equally be addressed to the Pentagon).

See also, John Pilger’s take on the anniversary, the Hiroshima Peace Declaration 2008 and Hiroshima mayor Tadatoshi Akiba’s call to the U.S. to abolish nuclear weapons.

[Posted By Szamko]

By Staff
Republished from Yomiuri Shimbun

Lawsuits continue to demand medical care for survivors

About 45,000 people attended a memorial ceremony Wednesday at the Peace Memorial Park here to mark the 63rd anniversary of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the city.

Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba said in a peace declaration that the majority of the world wants to abolish nuclear weapons as shown by the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty signed by about 190 states.

“All we need is the strong will and capacity to act to guard the future for our children,” he said during the ceremony, which began at 8 a.m.

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