[NYTr] Cuba Renders Tribute to Victims of Hiroshima-Nagasaki

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Tribute Rendered to the Victims of Hiroshima-Nagasaki

Havana, August 7 (acn) Cubans paid tribute to the victims of the US 
bombing of Hiroshima-Nagasaki, an event that shook the whole world and 
ranked as one of history's most outrageous acts of genocide.

During the gathering on Monday in Havana, which took place at the 
Callejon por la Paz (Peace Alley), in Cayo Hueso, Jose Ramon Rodriguez, 
secretary of the Cuban Pro-Peace and Sovereignty Movement, urged all 
nations of the world to get rid of nuclear weapons, which he called a 
threat to the survival of human race.

A member of the project Athens-Japan, Sayuri Yoshida, talked about 
bringing to Cuba the Fire of Hiroshima, a symbol of the horror caused 
by atomic destruction. It would be combined with a message of hope for 
human sensitivity and a warning against nuclear weapons.

A reading of the Appeal from Hiroshima and Nagasaki for a total ban and 
elimination of nuclear weapons, launched in 1985, was part of the 
ceremony, attended by the President of the World Peace Council, Orlando 
Fundora, among others.

Nuclear powers today, whether they admit to it or not, possess so many 
nuclear, hydrogen, and cobalt-strontium bombs that those cast on Japan 
in 1945 seem practically like toys, said one of the participants.

At 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945, a sparkle preceded the emergence of a 
mushroom-shaped cloud of smoke that turned the Japanese city of 
Hiroshima to dust and caused the loss of an estimated 60,000-70-000 
people. Three days later, a second bomb destroyed the city of Nagasaki 
and took 80,000 lives.

Decades later, the descendants of the survivors of the massacre still 
suffer the consequences of the explosions. Blood and skin diseases, 
growth disorders and premature aging are among the remaining effects.