Inhumane, Illegal, Immoral and Cruel: A Survivor Account of the Hiroshima Bombing

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By SETSUKO THURLOW

At the Little White House in Key West Florida, on 16 May 2014, atomic bomb testimony was delivered in an official forum on Truman ground for the first time. Together with Clifton Truman Daniel, Hibakusha Stories organized an event where Setsuko Thurlow and Yasuaki Yamashita were able to share their experience of being children in Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. Thanks to support from the Truman Family, The Little White House and The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, atomic bomb survivors are now on the official record defending the position that nuclear weapons are immoral no matter in whose hands.  The following is Setsuko Thurlow’s speech from that evening. Watch video

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Remembering Hiroshima For The Sake Of Our Common Future – Korean

공통의미래를위해히로시마의피폭체험을기억한다

【동경 IDN = 몬즈루루 하크(Monzurul Huq )】

인간의 ‘기억’이라는 것은 특히 전쟁과 파괴를 기록한다는 점에서는 오래 유지할 수 없는 것 같다. 인간의 고통과 처지를 그린 다양한 시대의 자세한 기록이 무수히 남아 있지만 인류는 아마도 그러한 것을, 뭔가 애매한 것이 아니면 추상적인 것, 혹은 일상의 현실과 무관한 뭔가 먼 동떨어진 일어난 것처럼 이해하는 것 같다. 막연하게 인식된 것은 확실한 증거가 될 수 없으며,동떨어진 사건에 대해서 심을 격렬하게 흔들 수 없기 때문에 우리들은 계속한 비극적인 현실이 불안을 보이고 아무리 단기간이라도 비교적 평온한 상황에의 길을 발견하면 순식간에 전쟁과 파괴가 인류에게 미치는 피해를 망각에 묻어 떠나 버리는 경향이 있다.

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Atom Bomb Anniversary Spotlights Persistent Nuclear Threat

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By SUVENDRINI KAKUCHI

TOKYO (IPS) – It has been 69 years, but the memory is fresh in the minds of 190,000 survivors and their descendants. It has been 69 years but a formal apology has yet to be issued. It has been 69 years – and the likelihood of it happening all over again is still a frightening reality. [P] ARABIC | GERMAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF

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Remembering Hiroshima For The Sake Of Our Common Future – Chinese

请为我们共同的未来记住广岛

【东京IDN＝Monzurul Huq】

－人们对记忆的保留是短暂的，特别是对那些对战争和灾难的记忆。那些在不同的时期对人们的苦难和痛苦所描绘的诸多细节，也不过只能提醒我们一些模糊和抽象的事物，这些事物离我们非常遥远而分散，好像同我们在任一时间面对的现实都没有任何关系。因为我们的所见是如此的模糊而不清晰，难以成为确切的证据，所以那些遥远的事物很难给予我们启示，达不到激发并唤醒我们的良知的程度，在一波波悲惨的现实消亡，很短的时间内相对和平安稳的环境便来临之后，我们往往会忘记那些战争和灾难给人类所带来的一切。

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