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6TH AUGUST - HIROSHIMA DAY REMEMBERED About 3,589 Students participated in the Peace Rally and took the pledge to work for Peace & Nuclear-free World
Students carrying placards marched for peace and nuclear-free
world.
Students, graphically depicting
the horror of the atom bomb, along with about 3,589 students
from 78 colleges, social activists, and peace-loving citizens in
the city marched for peace and a nuclear-free world from Azad
Maidan to Hutatma Chowk on Hiroshima Day, today.
The Peace march
was jointly organized by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and NSS Units
of SNDT & Mumbai University to mark the 67th anniversary of the
devastation of Hiroshima & Nagasaki with a deadly atomic attack
by America during World War II & to join hands with millions of
people of the world in their prayers to make a nuclear-free
world.
The devastation
had such an effect that one lakh sixty thousand people were
killed in the bombing leaving several thousand crippled. The
after effects of the bombing and radiation claimed over three
lakh lives over the years.
The Peace Rally was lead by students,
graphically depicting the horror of the atom bomb and carrying a
huge banner depicting the devastating effects of nuclear attack
and warning about future nuclear threat. Students were wearing
aprons and Gandhi-caps with slogans like ‘No More Hiroshima’,
‘Save Mother-Earth’.
NSS Volunteers from various colleges were also carrying placards
and banners depicting slogans like ‘NO-BOMB, YES-PEACE’, and “We
want to grow up, not to blow up”.
The Peace rally
started from Azad Maidan and concluded at Hutatma Chowk, where a
Pledge was taken by about 3,589 students to work for peace & a
nuclear-free world. Shri Atul Salunke, NSS Co-ordinator of
Mumbai University administrated the Pledge to the entire
gathering.
Students, graphically depicting the horror
of the atom bomb and carrying placards,
marched for peace and nuclear-free world.
Students carrying placards marched for peace and nuclear-free
world
Pledge to work for peace and non-violence was taken by the
entire gathering at the end of the rally
Commemorating 67th anniversary of atomic bombing on Hiroshima |