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[5] From: Sukla Sen <suklasen@yahoo.com> Date: Tue Jun 28, 2005 Subject: Sixtieth Anniversary of Mass Murder in Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Call for Indiawide One-Minute Silence From: "sacw" <aiindex@... CNDP action plan on persisting danger n-weapons The Hindu June 27, 2005 'IDENTIFY HORRORS OF N-ARMS RACE' R. Gopalakrishnan Programme of action to create awareness on the persisting danger n-weapons pose ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Nation-wide observance of one-minute silence on August 6 and 9 * Right to Information Act excluded the DAE from the provisions of law * Nuclear danger "is not far out there [in history] but here on our doorsteps" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - PANAJI: The Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CNDP), [India], an umbrella organisation of more than 200 civil society organisations, on Sunday issued a call for a nation-wide observance of one-minute silence on August 6 and 9 to commemorate the 50th [60th] anniversary of the dropping of nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which resulted in the immediate death of more than two lakh people. The CNDP is aimed at "sensitising governments and policy-makers" to the dangers of the nuclear arms race in the world as also in the Indian sub-continent. It concluded a two-day meeting of its National Coordination Committee (NCC) here on Sunday. It also chalked out a programme of action by its State chapters and member-organisations to create awareness among all sections of people, especially women and the youth, on the persisting danger that nuclear weapons posed to humanity and its environment and habitat. Addressing a press conference, leaders of the CNDP noted the failure of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference held in May to make any progress on the implementation of the nuclear powers' obligation for time-bound global nuclear disarmament, as a result of the stance adopted by the United States. Achin Vanaik, academician and activist, said the U. S. had demanded and obtained an apology from Japan for bombing Pearl Harbour (U. S. base in the Far East) which triggered U. S. participation in World War-II but the U. S. itself has refused to apologise for dropping nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Neither Japan, whose foreign policy was dependent on the U. S., nor governments of countries such as India had cared to put pressure on the U. S. to apologise for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "Unless we recognise the horrors and wrongfulness of what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world cannot rid itself of nuclear weapons," Mr. Vanaik said. No concern for victims He said the erstwhile NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government had unilaterally called for mourning for the 2,500 victims of the terrorist attack on the U. S. on September 11, 2001, but it had not shown a similar concern for victims of nuclear bombing which killed a hundred times more non-combatants, women and children, in the name of protecting American soldiers. Mr. Vanaik said it was "extremely disturbing" that India's Right to Information Act had excluded the Department of Atomic Energy from the provisions of the law. Christopher Fonseca, head of the Goa Coalition for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament and General Secretary of the State unit of the All-India Trade Union Congress (AITUC), appealing to the media to support the awareness programmes related to August 6 and 9, said nuclear danger "is not far out there [in history] but here on our doorsteps," in the background of nuclearisation of India and Pakistan. Sabsayachi Chatterjee, scientist, said this year was also the International Year of Physics, and nuclear bombing of Japan was the worst misuse of physics. Ilina Sen, Admiral (Retd) L. Ramdas, Sukla Sen and Garimella Subramaniam also addressed the media conference. ----------------------------------------- [6] From: dnrad1 <dnrad1@sancharnet.in> Date: Tue Jun 28, 2005 Subject: 59th. MARTRYDOM DAY OF VASANT- RAJAB 59th. MARTRYDOM DAY OF VASANT- RAJAB 1ST.JULY FRIDAY FLORAL TRIBUTE, VASANT -RAJAB CHOWK, KHAND- NI-SERI,JAMALPUR,AHMEDABAD TIME -9.P.M. FROM - MOVEMENT FOR SECULAR DEMOCRACY(MSD) |
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