Nobel Peace Prize awarded to atomic bomb survivors' organization

Photo: Co-chairman of the Japan Confederation of Atomic and Hydrogen Bomb Survivors' Organizations (Nihon Hidanke) Toshiyuki Mimaki at a press conference in Hiroshima

The Japanese organization “Nihon Hidanke”, which unites people who survived the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, Reuters reports.

The victims of the only two nuclear weapons attacks in history, known in Japan as “hibakusha,” have dedicated their lives to the fight for a nuclear-free world.

Nihon Hidanke has been honored for its efforts to create a nuclear-weapons-free world and for collecting eyewitness accounts… showing that nuclear weapons should never be used again, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement. – A-bomb survivors help us describe the indescribable, think about the unthinkable, and somehow comprehend the incomprehensible pain and suffering caused by nuclear weapons.”

”(The award) will be a tremendous force in urging the world that the goals of nuclear abolition and eternal peace are achievable,” said Nihon Hidanke Co-Chairman Toshiyuki Mimaki, an atomic bomb survivor himself. –– There is no doubt that nuclear weapons must be eliminated.”

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Norwegian Nobel Committee Chairman Jorgen Vatne Frydnes has warned nuclear powers that they should not even consider using the weapons.

“In a world plagued by conflicts, of which nuclear weapons are certainly a part, we wanted to highlight the importance of strengthening the nuclear taboo,” Frydnes said. “We find it very alarming that this taboo is being weakened… by modern threats, and that the world's nuclear powers are modernizing and upgrading their nuclear arsenals.”

He also stressed that the world should listen to the “painful and dramatic stories of the hibakusha.”

“These weapons must never be used again anywhere in the world… A nuclear war could mean the end of humanity, the end of our civilization,” Frydnes said.

The Nobel Committee is drawing the world's attention to the “very dangerous situation” of the “growing toxicity” of nuclear weapons, according to Dan Smith, head of the Stockholm International Peace Institute. relations between the United States, Russia and China.

In 2017, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

BAGNET recalls that the Peace Prize was the fifth Nobel Prize awarded this week, following the prizes for literature, chemistry, physics and medicine.

Last year, the Peace Prize laureate was imprisoned Iranian women's rights activist Narzes Mohammadi.

Prepared by: Sergey Daga