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Hiroshima Tribute to Victims of U.S. Nuclear Attack
Tokyo, Aug 6 (Prensa Latina) A minute of silence was the most heartfelt tribute of thousands of citizens to the victims of U.S. nuclear bombing to the Japanese city of Hiroshima on the 68 anniversary of that abominable event.
Elderly survivors, relatives of the deceased, government officials and foreign guests remembered the date in the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima.
On August 6, 1945 the bomber B-29, called Enola Gay, dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing 140 000 dead, who turned this city into a nuclear inferno.
Social movements made up of atomic bomb survivors, known as hibakusha, oppose themselves to the use of nuclear energy based on the tens of thousands of people who died at the momento the the explosion and months later in Hiroshima.
Three days later, on August 9, 1945, the United States also bombarded the port city of Nagasaki.
Japanese anti-nuclear feeling revived when the Tsunami that hit the reactor of the Fukushima nuclear plant in March 2011 and killed 19 000 people, many died from radiation-related diseases such as cancer.
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