CND in the News

CND in the News: 4-10 August 2005
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1 Unimaginable horrors must never be forgotten
http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1107112

Sheffield student Jacqueline Troy will travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the 60th anniversary of the horrific destruction wrought by the atomic bomb . Jane Cartledge reports

PEACE campaigners in Sheffield have paid for a city university student to travel to Hiroshima to mark the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the nuclear bomb.
Members and supporters of Sheffield Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) raised funds so that University of Sheffield student Jacqueline Troy could travel to the Japanese city.
She will spend Saturday, the 60th anniversary of the devastating atomic bombing, with elderly and frail survivors. It is expected to be the last big commemoration of the event which helped bring an end to the Second World War.

During her stay, Jacqueline will follow a course at Hiroshima University and will attend a number of commemoration events including a youth rally in Nagasaki which marks its own bombing on August 9.
Her visit will enable her to learn about the destruction wrought on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and to understand the continuing global nuclear threat.
When she returns to Sheffield she will report back to CND members and will continue campaigning to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
Ahead of her visit Jacqueline wrote an article for the CND website saying time must not erode our memory of what happened on August 6 and August 9 when 120,000 people were killed outright. Over time, twice as many people lost their lives as a result of the bombs.

Jacqueline wrote: "I wanted to go to Hiroshima and Nagasaki because the commemorations this year are to be the last. "This means that this is the last time that the survivors of the bombings will be speaking of their experiences to the world and so I think it is even more important for us to listen. "The 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are the only ones of their kind and as time erodes memory, the destructive power behind nuclear weapons - their actual purpose - is forgotten. "As no nuclear weapons have been used since 1945, people have become accustomed to the knowledge that there are nuclear weapons in the world and less of the consequences of using such power."

Jacqueline added: "If we do not listen to these survivors and pass on their message, we will lose sight of the effects nuclear weapons can have on humanity.
Moreover, on a personal level, this trip is particularly important to me because it will give me a chance to meet people that feel as I do which would encourage and inspire me.
"Hopefully the War and Peace course I will study at Hiroshima City University, and participating in both the commemorations and the Youth Rally in Nagasaki, will allow me to be more useful to CND and other humanitarian organisations when I return."

CND in Sheffield wanted to send a young person Hiroshima and Nagasaki to ensure that the CND message was passed to the next generation. To coincide with the commemorations, members of CND and other peace organisations will gather at Sheffield Cathedral on Saturday. There will be a stall on the forecourt and a choir, Body of Sound, will perform. At noon the Lord Mayor of Sheffield will sign a petition which CND intend to send to local MPs objecting to the renewal of Trident. Shoppers and passers-by can add their names to the affirmation which reads: "I do not accept that nuclear weapons can defend me, my country, or the values I stand for."
Meanwhile a banner with the message "Remember Hiroshima" will be displayed on the town hall balcony until August 11.
05 August 2005
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2 CND marks bomb drop
5 August 2005
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Members of Bromley and Beckenham's Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) hope to hold a vigil from noon until 3pm between the Halifax and Clarks shoe store in Bromley High Street, to mark the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945.

Group secretary Ann Garrett said: "Sixty years on there is a growing danger that nuclear weapons might again be used in war. The US administration has declared a nuclear 'hit list' of more than 15 countries it is prepared to use nuclear weapons against and is developing a new generation to add to its huge nuclear arsenal. "In Britain we are updating our own nuclear weapons system and the Government has said it would be prepared to use them in a first strike capacity."

For more information, contact Bromley and Beckenham CND on 020 8460 1295
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3 London ceremony marks Hiroshima
Saturday, 6 August 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4126800.stm

More than 200 people gathered in London to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. CND and other peace campaigners organised the event at Tavistock Gardens, near where a bus was blown up in the 7 July London bombings. Around 140,000 people were killed by the Hiroshima bomb and its aftermath. In the Japanese city, nuclear survivors known as Hibakusha, attended the annual commemoration in the Peace Park, built at the epicentre of the blast.

About 55,000 people thronged into the peace park to remember the moment the bomb exploded in the skies above the city, at 0815 on the morning of 6 August, 1945.
Thousands were killed instantly and many others died later from severe burns or radiation. Many commentators believe the US attack helped bring an early end to World War II in the Pacific.

But CND chairwoman Kate Hudson said: "It is important that we mark the 60th anniversary by helping to bring about a real understanding of the horror of the nuclear bomb and the continued danger to the world of the nuclear weapons held by all of the nuclear weapon states, including the UK. "It is also vital that we challenge both the perception that it was necessary to drop the bomb on Japan and the idea that it would ever be necessary or justified to use it anywhere, ever again."

She spoke at the event in London, which began at 1200 BST. Other speakers included Andrew Murray, chairman of the Stop The War Coalition and Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn. Mr Corbyn asked people to dedicate themselves to building a "world of peace, world of justice", adding: "That surely has to be the best answer instead of going down the road to more weapons of mass destruction, more anti-terror laws and more destruction of our civil liberties."
The Reverend Elaine Dado, from St Pancras Church, said prayers and Councillor Barbara Hughes, from Camden Council, expressed sympathy to the friends and family of those who died in the July 7 bombings.
Other events were taking place around the UK.

The Hiroshima Day Remembrance Festival at Millennium Point in Birmingham had performances artists and musicians from across the country.
Coventry Cathedral will marked anniversary by offering people a "service of reflection" with music, poetry and readings and silence.
And in Scotland, vigils and other events were planned for Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling and Dumfries.
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4 Hiroshima atomic bomb remembered
6 August 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4126850.stm

The attack and its aftermath killed an estimated 140,000 people at the end of World War II. Events commemorating the bombing took place in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Stirling and Dumfries.
The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) said Scots should remember the victims of war and why such weapons should be scrapped. Campaigns worker Phill Jones said: "The commemorations highlight how nuclear weapons are so different from any other weapons - a fact quite often forgotten in this day and age.

"The Trident submarines at Faslane, only 30 miles from Glasgow, have carried nuclear bombs that are seven or eight times more powerful than the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima. "One of the reasons why this year is significant, as well as being the 60th anniversary, is that in the next few years the government will have to decide whether to replace Trident or not."

Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell and Deputy Lord Provost Christine Devine attended a vigil in the city's George Square, along with CND, unions and other campaigners.
In Edinburgh the launch of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace marked the 60th anniversary of Hiroshima at St John's Church on Princes Street.

Dundee's 25th annual peace walk up The Law was followed by a rally, which included anti-war campaigners Rose Gentle, Aamer Anwar, and politicians Rosie Kane and Stuart Hosie.
One of the biggest peace events in Britain was in London where a ceremony was held in Tavistock Square, close to where a bomb exploded on a double decker bus on 7 July.
In Hiroshima about 55,000 people thronged into the city's peace park early on Saturday morning to remember the moment the bomb exploded in the skies above the city 60 years ago.
At 0815 on 6 August, 1945 the Enola Gay dropped the bomb that exploded over Hiroshima, obliterating the centre of the city and killing at least 140,000 people.
Three days later, Bock's Car dropped a bomb on Nagasaki, killing another 80,000.
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5 British Christians call for end to nuclear weapons
6 August 2005
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_05086nukes.shtml

On the 60th anniversary of the nuclear attacks against Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan, senior Christian figures in Britain have called for the UK government to make a commitment that it will never use nuclear weapons and that it will actively seek their abolition. Catholic bishops, the general secretary of the Methodist church, Quakers, a Mennonite and top biblical scholars are among some 20 Christian individuals and three church organisations to sign a statement appearing in today’s Guardian newspaper, sponsored by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Over 250,000 people were killed and generations poisoned by radiation when the two Japanese cities were destroyed in 1945, at the end of the Second World War. The United States says it took the action, with Allied agreement, to end Japanese resistance. But many experts question the validity of this claim, alleging instead that the motive was related to the beginnings of a superpower arms race with the Soviet Union.

Britain today has just under 200 nuclear warheads, each eight times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. The UK has begun developments at the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Aldermaston which could produce a new generation of nuclear weapons.

Alongside members of parliament and London Mayor Ken Livingstone, the church figures signing CND's plea to end the global nuclear threat include Methodist Church leader, the Rev David Deakes; the Rt Rev Thomas Macmahon (Catholic Bishop of Brentwood); the Rt Rev James O’Brien (Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster); the Rt Rev Ambrose Griffith (Catholic Emeritus Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle); and the Paul Oestreicher (Anglican Canon Emeritus of Coventry Cathedral and Quaker Chaplain to the University of Sussex).

Two of Britain’s most respected biblical scholars are also among the signatories. They are the Rev Professor Christopher Rowland (Dean Ireland’s Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford), and the Rev Professor Charles E. B. Cranfield, a retired Greek specialist. Others identifying with the statement include Church of England General Synod member the Rev Paul Collier; former Catholic priest and peace activist Bruce Kent; Quaker Peace and Social Witness; Christian CND; the Anglican Pacifist Fellowship; Veronica Zundel from the UK’s only Mennonite Church, and twelve other clergy from different denominations.The 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima falls on the day when many Christians celebrate the Feast of the Transfiguration, a manifestation of God’s glory based on the story in St Matthew chapter 17, where Jesus is revealed alongside Peter, James, John, Moses and Elijah.

“The contrast between the light of life in the Transfiguration story and Hiroshima’s blinding light of death could not be greater,” commented Simon Barrow, Co-Director of the UK Christian think tank Ekklesia. He added: “The deployment of nuclear weapons adds to global insecurity, and Britain should now play a significant role in ending their proliferation.”

The international community is currently trying to persuade Iran not to move ahead with its own nuclear weapons programme. The Hiroshima bomb on 6 August 1945 killed 130,000 people, 95 per cent of whom were civilians. A Christian chaplain read prayers as the Enola Gay plane took off to carry out the attack. Comments Paul Oestreicher: “There is no ethical justification for weapons of mass destruction – Christian, Muslim, Jewish or humanist – no more than for the suicide bomber.”

Britain’s Trident nuclear submarine system comes to the end of its life in 2024. The government is planning a £10 billion replacement, but the Methodist Church is now calling for a debate about this
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6 Hiroshima vigils held
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Vigils are being held in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirling to mark the 60th anniversary of the atom bomb being dropped on Hiroshima.
Glasgow City Council representatives are attending a vigil in George Square, with CND members and other campaigners.
In Edinburgh the launch of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace is being held at St John's Church in Princes Street.
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7 Never again
The Huddersfield Daily Examiner, Aug 5 2005
http://ichuddersfield.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=15823745&method=full&siteid=50060&headline=-time-to-end-n-weapons-name_page.htmlTime to end N-weapons

KIRKLEES peace groups are marking the 60th anniversary of atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by calling for an end to nuclear weapons. On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a US Super-Fortress bomber, dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The final toll was put at over 200,000. More than 50,000 people are expected to gather in Peace Memorial Park Hiroshima for a moment of silence at 8.15am tomorrow - the time the bomb was dropped. And Kirklees peace campaigners have called on world leaders to never to use nuclear weapons again.

Organisations involved in the campaign are the Green Party, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, Stop the War and Women in Black. Members of the groups will meet at 11.30am tomorrow at Market Place in Huddersfield town centre to ask people to contact the Government and demand that they get rid of nuclear weapons
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8 Campaigners call on Britain to end its nuke arsenal
Saturday, August 6, 2005
http://japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=345585

On the 60th anniversary of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima, a coalition of politicians, celebrities and campaigners called on the British government Saturday to give up its nuclear arsenal. A total of 1,000 well-known figures teamed up with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament to take out full page advertisements in two newspapers, expressing concern at Britain's nuclear program, under the slogan "Never Again." (KYODO)
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9 Hiroshima victims are remembered
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4750075.stm

Anti-nuclear campaigners are urging people across the region to join a remembrance service for people who died in the Hiroshima bombing 60 years ago.
US nuclear bombs destroyed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on 6 and 9 August 1945, killing 140,000. A silent vigil is being held at 1200 BST on Saturday in the churchyard of St Philip's Cathedral in Colmore Row in Birmingham. Coventry Cathedral is also holding a service of remembrance.

Jenny Maxwell, from the West Midlands Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said many people do not realise that Britain still has nuclear weapons.
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10 Hiroshima anniversary marked
6 August 05
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More than 200 people gathered for a ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the atom bomb being dropped on Hiroshima. Anti-nuclear demonstrators and members of the public met at Tavistock Square, central London, to remember the thousands who were killed when a bomb obliterated the Japanese city. At least 140,000 people died as a result of the attack, and another 80,000 were killed when a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki three days later.

The service was also particularly poignant as it was held just metres away from where a bomb exploded on a double decker bus on July 7. A memorial cherry tree to the victims of Hiroshima was planted in the square in 1967.

Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn thanked people for attending the ceremony, which was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop The War Coalition. He urged people to remember that others around the world were also commemorating the "unique horror" of what happened in 1945. He asked people to dedicate themselves to building a "world of peace, world of justice". He added: "That surely has to be the best answer instead of going down the road to more weapons of mass destruction, more anti-terror laws and more destruction of our civil liberties."

Bouquets of flowers were placed in front of the memorial tree and anti-war demonstrators had stuck peace flags into the ground around the square.
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11. Never again: Hiroshima's plea for peace
7 August 05
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1740792005

HIROSHIMA marked the 60th anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack yesterday with flowers and water for the dead, insisting the city's tragedy should never be repeated. At exactly 8.15am, the moment of the blast, the city's trams stopped and more than 55,000 people who were assembled at Peace Memorial Park observed a moment of silence that was broken only by the ringing of a bronze bell. Then, with offerings of water and flowers for the dead, Hiroshima remembered the 140,000 who died. Outside the nearby A-Bomb Dome, one of the few buildings left standing after the blast, peace activists held a "die-in" - symbolically falling to the ground to dramatise the death toll of nuclear weapons.

In a "peace declaration", Hiroshima's outspoken mayor Tadatoshi Akiba gave an impassioned plea for the abolition of all nuclear weapons, and said the United States, Russia and other members of the nuclear club are "jeopardising human survival". "Many people around the world have succumbed to the feeling that there is nothing we can do," he said. "Within the United Nations, nuclear club members use their veto power to override the global majority and pursue their selfish objectives."

In a more subdued speech, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi paid his respects to the dead. "I offer deep prayers from my heart to those who were killed," he said, vowing that Japan would be a leader in the international movement against nuclear proliferation.

Though Hiroshima has risen from the rubble to become a thriving city of three million, most of whom were born after the war, the anniversary underscores its ongoing tragedy. Officials estimate that about 140,000 people were killed instantly or died within a few months after the aircraft Enola Gay dropped its deadly payload over the city, which then had a population of about 350,000.

Three days later, another US bomber, Bock's Car, dropped a plutonium bomb on the city of Nagasaki, killing about 80,000 people. Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, bringing the Second World War to an end.

Fumie Yoshida, who survived the bomb blast but lost her father, brother and sister, said she had chosen not to attend the formal memorial, but joined a small group of friends to pay her respects privately. Yoshida was 16 years old when Hiroshima was bombed. "My father's remains have never been found," she said. "Those of us who went through this all know that we must never repeat this tragedy. But I think many Japanese today are forgetting."

Meanwhile, in London, more than 200 anti-nuclear demonstrators and members of the public met at Tavistock Square to remember the tens of thousands who were killed. The service was held just metres away from where a bomb exploded on a double-decker bus on July 7.
A memorial cherry tree to the victims of Hiroshima was planted in the square in 1967.

Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn thanked those who attended the ceremony, which was organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the Stop The War Coalition. He urged them to remember that others around the world were also commemorating the "unique horror" of what had happened in 1945. He asked people to dedicate themselves to building a "world of peace, world of justice", adding: "That surely has to be the best answer instead of going down the road to more weapons of mass destruction, more anti-terror laws and more destruction of our civil liberties."

Bouquets of flowers were placed in front of the memorial tree and anti-war demonstrators sank peace flags into the ground around the square.
In Scotland, Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell and Deputy Lord Provost Christine Devine attended a vigil in the city's George Square, along with CND members, union representatives and other campaigners from noon.

In Edinburgh, the launch of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace marked the anniversary of Hiroshima at St John's Church on Princes Street.
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12 New arrests at Parliament protest
Aug 7 2005
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There was a strong police presence as activists gathered to stage a protest against the new law banning demonstrations outside Parliament
Last Monday five people were arrested under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act, which outlaws organised demonstrations in an area of up to 1km around Parliament without police authorisation.

And on Sunday officers also moved in and began arresting demonstrators. To chants of "Shame on you" and loud booing, officers warned several protestors before arresting them. One woman laid on the floor and resisted arrest. She was dragged by two officers to awaiting police vans, followed by a crowd of demonstrators. Earlier officers had handed out leaflets warning demonstrators that they were in violation of the law.
A number of groups, including CND, the Stop the War coalition and Friends of the Earth are protesting against the new law and have pledged to carry on demonstrating. Up to 100 people gathered at the site, many carrying peace banners and placards saying 'Protest by right not police permission'.

Daz Eardley, 39, from Norfolk said he was willing to be arrested.
He said: "Really, I can't understand the law. I think if I actually went to court it would not stand up anyway. They brought in the law less than seven days ago so I could not have given the police advance notice even if I had wanted to."
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13 Parliament Square protesters "arrested"
7 August 2005
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Police have reportedly arrested six people following Sunday's protest in Parliament Square against a new law banning unauthorised demonstrations there. Today's arrests follow the detention of five people on Monday under the Serious and Organised Crime and Police Act, which outlaws demonstrations within a half-mile radius of Parliament unless cleared by police.

Up to 100 demonstrators, including representatives from campaigning groups such as Friends of the Earth, the CND and the Stop the War coalition, have gathered in Westminster for the protest, the Press Association reports. Many of the demonstrators are carrying peace banners and placards reading, "Protest by right not police permission".

Under the new law, unauthorised demonstrators can be arrested, fined £1,000 or removed from within the designated protest zone, which includes all of Whitehall and large parts of Westminster. The new law was drafted to remove the four-year peace vigil anti-war activist Brian Haw has staged in Parliament Square. But the campaigner is now the only person in the country allowed to protest outside Parliament without permission after he won a High Court battle to remain there.

Commenting about the protest taking place on Sunday, Mr Haw said: "I'm the last of the Mohicans, I'm the last of the Great British."

"My fellow compatriots have been denied a voice. I'm outraged by this, I'm outraged that the police are busy chasing old ladies with peace signs down Whitehall when there are bombs going off in London."
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14 Six arrested for defying protest ban
The Guardian, August 8, 2005
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,15935,1544753,00.html

Six protesters were arrested outside parliament yesterday under new laws banning spontaneous demonstrations within half a mile of the House of Commons. Police moved in on campaigners for the second time in a week since the legislation was brought in on August 1, when five people were held.

Yesterday, more than 200 campaigners gathered at midday on the green in front of parliament. They came from several different organisations, including CND and Action Against War, but all were there to demonstrate for their right to protest.

After the police handed out leaflets warning the protesters that they could be arrested under the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005, about 50 officers began arresting those holding banners at 1.20pm and leading them to waiting vans. The first to be challenged was Jane English, 21, a drama student who is to start at Birmingham University in the autumn. She had been standing still, without saying a word, holding a banner with an extract from the Human Rights Act proclaiming the right to peaceful assembly. As she was led to a police van, Ms English said: "This is a public green; I have a right to be here."

Five others who had been holding or standing near banners were then taken away as the crowd shouted, "Shame on you" at the officers, while a police cameraman filmed the proceedings. Other protesters said they would return with new banners every week to face arrest until the law was changed. As the group lay down on the ground, chanting, "Protest, my right", more than 100 police were waiting in vans around Parliament Square.

Under the new act, anyone gathering to demonstrate within the designated area is committing a criminal offence unless they have sought, and been granted, authorisation from the police. The laws are said to be part of the new anti-terror measures. MPs had supported the law on the basis that it would allow police to remove the anti-war protester Brian Haw, 56, who has set up camp opposite the main gates to the Commons since June 2001.

But the high court exempted Mr Haw's four-year protest from the legislation because it started before the act came in.
"I am the last voice left here today," he said. "I will be here for as long as it takes, but I don't want to be the only one with the right to speak. They are making serious criminals out of peaceful protesters."

Among those who have been arrested so far are two of Mr Haw's most faithful supporters, one who brought him a hot meal each week and another who put together last month's legal challenge to the law.
"[The government is] trying to isolate me because my display embarrasses them," Mr Haw said
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15 Spirit will never fold
http://www.morecambetoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=34&ArticleID=1109994

AS the people of Lancaster and Morecambe commemorated the day that the first atomic bomb was dropped on civilians, two people from Hiroshima joined them for a special demonstration. Sixty years on from the bombing, Eiko and Ian Nakamura from Hiroshima met children and adults at Lancaster's Market Square during the CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) protest on Saturday.

In memory of those who died, the children and other members of the public made paper cranes – a tradition started by an inspirational 10-year-old Japanese girl called Sadako Sasaki who died of leukaemia caused by radiation from the bomb. During her illness Sadako made paper cranes as a symbol of peace and hope for the future.

Audrey Harland of Lancaster CND said the day had been a huge success and nearly 800 people had made paper cranes. Audrey said: "Eiko made the most perfect and beautiful crane in just three minutes. They were very very pleased to see the demonstration and were surprised as well. "Eiko took some pictures to take home to put in their local newspaper in Hiroshima. She said people there don't realise how much indignation there is worldwide about what happened.

"They are much too young to have been directly involved, but they are both determinted to prevent anything of that nature happening again.
"There was a very good response from the public in general. I have the feeling that the tide has turned and people are seeing the connection between wars in someone else's country and the dangers for this country. People no longer see these things in isolation – they are connected."
Eiko and Ian are friends of Joan and Richard Allwright, the new secretaries of the local branch of CND. Ian is a part-time
student at Lancaster University and he comes over here a couple of times a year.

Celia Briar, Audrey's daughter and a world-renowned harpist, played music for the crowds in Market Square. Celia, who now lives in New Zealand (a nuclear-free country), has campaigned against nuclear weapons for her entire life. A large number of people signed a CND petition against any new nuclear weapons and some new members joined the group.
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