Nagasaki Remembers 70,000 Victims of Atomic Bomb- and Gaza

Sudan Events – Agencies 

Nagasaki has observed “moment of silence” in a ceremony marking the 1945 atomic bombing of the Japanese city by United States in 1945, but the event was skipped by many Western countries because Nagasaki’s mayor declined to invite Israel amid its genocidal war on Gaza.
During the World War 2, an atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, destroyed the city, killing 140,000 people.
A second bomb dropped three days later on Nagasaki killed 70,000 more.
Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, ending the war and the country’s nearly half-century of aggression in Asia. Ahead of the bombing, some reports suggested that between June and July that year Japan was willing to surrender and had attempted to approach Soviets to mediate peace talks with the Americans.
The tragic event is especially significant as Nagasaki remains the last place in history to have suffered an atomic bomb attack.
“The government of Japan, the only state attacked by atomic bombs in war, must express a serious attitude of pursuing a world without nuclear weapons,” said Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki, speaking at a ceremony marking the anniversary.
“As a step toward this, we call for the Japanese government to sign and ratify the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as soon as possible,” he said, as quoted by Japan’s Mainichi daily.
He also called for the Japanese government “to firmly uphold the principle of peace embodied in the Constitution of Japan and to demonstrate its leadership in international efforts to ease the heightened tension in Northeast Asia and advance disarmament in the region, such as the Northeast Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone initiative.”