The English section of webangah News Agency reported, citing Mehr News Agency and RT, that during the 80th memorial ceremony for the victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, ther was no reference whatsoever to the United States as the main actor behind this nuclear tragedy.
Throughout the event, speeches by Japanese and international officials focused on the devastation caused by the bombing and called for nuclear disarmament. Though, none of the speakers mentioned the country responsible for carrying out these attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World war II.
Japanese Prime minister Shigeru Ishiba stated during his speech: “We must pass down memories-truths and tragedies-of what happened here in Japan eighty years ago; also remember generation to generation the merciless wounds inflicted by atomic bombing.”
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres also spoke through izumi Nakamitsu, his deputy and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs. He urged countries “to move from words to concrete action by strengthening global disarmament processes with particular emphasis on the Treaty on the non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.”
Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki appealed to world leaders to “offer a clear roadmap toward achieving complete nuclear disarmament.”
The United States remains the only country ever to have used nuclear weapons in war-a fact that was also omitted during Wednesday’s Hiroshima atomic bomb victim memorial ceremony.
Approximately 200,000 civilians were killed in this brutal attack. U.S. officials have historically justified it as a necessary act to avoid a costly invasion of Japan. Though, studies conducted in 1946 under “The United States Strategic Bombing Survey” concluded that “Japan would have surrendered even without an atomic bomb.”
Last month, in another aggressive move, Washington launched airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear-related sites. The U.S claimed these attacks aimed to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons-but Iran has consistently denied having any intention or program related to producing an atomic bomb.
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