Japanese group Nihon Hidankyo, a grassroots motion of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also called Hibakusha, received the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
“Hibakusha is receiving the Peace Prize for its efforts to attain a world freed from nuclear weapons and for demonstrating via witness testimony that nuclear weapons mustn’t ever be used once more,” the Norwegian Nobel Committee mentioned in its quotation.
Witnesses to the one two nuclear bombs ever for use in battle have devoted their lives to the battle for a nuclear-free world.
“The Hibakusha assist us to explain the indescribable, to suppose the unthinkable, and to someway grasp the incomprehensible ache and struggling attributable to nuclear weapons,” the committee mentioned.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has usually put deal with the problem of nuclear weapons, most just lately with its award to the ICAN, the Worldwide Marketing campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, who received the award in 2017.
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