Posted on 10/15/2024 7:21:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the award was made as the “taboo against the use of nuclear weapon is under pressure.”
He said the Nobel committee “wishes to honor all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace.”
Efforts to eradicate nuclear weapons have been honored in the past by the Nobel committee. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the Peace Prize in 2017 and in 1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs won for “their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.”
his year's prize was awarded against a backdrop of devastating conflicts raging in the world, notably in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan.
Alfred Nobel stated in his will that the prize should be awarded for "the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.”
Last year’s prize went to jailed Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi for her advocacy of women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty. The Nobel committee said it also was a recognition of “the hundreds of thousands of people” who demonstrated against “Iran’s theocratic regime’s policies of discrimination and oppression targeting women.”
In a year of conflict, there had been some speculation before the announcement that the Norwegian Nobel Committee that decides on the winner would opt not to award a prize at all
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I wonder if the Japanese understand that a Chinese nuclear missile can reach their land in about 90 seconds...and a North Korean nuke can arrive in 60 seconds.
What was their stance concerning the attack on Pearl Harbor and the atrocities committed by their military during the subsequent war.
Meaningless, even before they gave it to Barry Soetero.
to which they've largely held the mark. It is very sad that it took to A-bombs to put the in that frame of mind.
I agree. Ever since we dropped the bomb on them they have been bowing to us ever since.
I’m sure the ChiComs and Koreans are still in favor of what we did to Japan.
They sound as if they preferred we had invaded the home island and killed millions in saturated bombing and land engagements and fire-bombed the whole paper-based housing infrastructure.
People never want to remember history and face consequences of their actions.
Actually they would have preferred letting Stalin invade and getting all of Japan.
Apparently no similar groups for survivors of the Bataan Death March or the Rape of Nanking
I heard they were about to give the award to UNRWA but many people sent open letters objecting to it so they changed their mind.
I think a well documented fact that several of their staff threw bombs to IDF also influenced the decision.
2 words. Pearl Harbor. Everything that happened to the Japanese after that was their own fault.
What, no Nobel Peace prize for the organization of Chinese survivor activists from Unit 731 against biological and chemical weapons? Oh yeah, no survivors of that one.
Oh, pi$$ off. Same crowd that say it would have been better if Allies had invaded — and lost millions of soldiers and more millions of civilians.
Religious TWOTs who hate nuke energy in all its forms regardless of facts.
This is virtue signaling at its worst.
The Japanese people of today are NOT the folks from the 20’s to the 40’s. They were brutal and savage. They were racist in a way we cannot imagine. The feeling of racial superiority was more strong than that of Nazi Germany.
If ever there was a country that deserved what they got, it was Imperial Japan in WWII.
I had several uncles that gave up years of their lives because of what the Japanese did. One lost a leg. One lost their life. And one was a mess for decades after coming home.
Nope…I have little sympathy for those people. I understand they are no longer the same country and I hold no animosity against the current population. But to pretend they have always been peaceful victims is horse crap.
No matter how this prize might be awarded, there will be some people or nations that won’t agree with it & there will always be an unbalance in the thinking of it so we will be right back to the same old problems.
Neither would have happened (invasion or atomic bombs) if Japan had surrendered after they lost Okinawa. The war was already over in Europe.
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