Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 06:
The 56th Hiroshima day, organized by Indo-Japan Friendship Association, Manipur was observed today at Hotel Mass where participants pledged to carry out sustained campaigns against nuclear proliferation and make the world nuclear free.
Besides, observing two minute silence in honor of the demised persons in the nuclear holocaust during World War II, a Peace Declaration faxed to the association from Tokyo was read out to the people attending the Hiroshima day function.
A part of the Declaration read out said, �We believe that humanity means our willingness to listen to the voices of all human beings.
Humanity also means nurturing children with loving care.
It means valuing reconciliations creating human family�s common future.
It means rejecting violence and reaching peaceful agreement through the power of reason and conscience.
Only humanity can assure the abolition of nuclear weapons; only humanity can ensure that nuclear weapons, once eliminated are never re-invented.� The faxed message further stated that City of Hiroshima is striving to establish Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace study courses in major Universities of the world.