Peace Prize Winners Meet In Japan To Abolish Nukes
By Jay Alabaster
Associated Press
POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 12, 2010
HIROSHIMA, Japan » The Dalai Lama and other Nobel Peace laureates from the last four decades gathered Friday at a hotel a few miles from ground zero of the world's first atomic bomb attack to support the end of nuclear weapons.
The award winners also were focused on the plight of those who couldn't attend the annual World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates -- including this year's winner, jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, and Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's detained pro-democracy activist who won in 1991.
"Now here, Liu Xiaobao, you see, failed to come here. It is very sad," the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who won in 1989, told The Associated Press.
Wu'er Kaixi, a prominent student leader from the 1989 pro-democracy protests in China's Tiananmen Square, addressed the meeting in Liu's stead.
"I look forward to the day when my country is a land with freedom of expression," Wu'er said, reading from Liu's last speech before he was jailed.
The annual meeting brings past award recipients together to call attention to their achievements and work, as well as push the prize's overall message of human rights and nonviolence.
At the opening ceremony Friday morning, laureates were given necklaces made of paper cranes -- a symbol of peace in Japan -- by local schoolchildren. They also heard the story of a "hibakusha" or survivor of the Aug. 6, 1945 attack, who described his journey home through the carnage on that day.
"I hate atomic bombs, but I know we cannot erase hatred by hating others. Hatred has to be overcome," said Akihiro Takahashi, who was a boy in Hiroshima when the Americans dropped the bomb.
The three-day meeting is being held outside of Europe for the first time to draw attention to the devastating power of nuclear weapons. At a park in the middle of the city, an eternal flame burns in remembrance for its 140,000 victims, and the blasted-out hulk of a building near the detonation site is preserved in memorial.
"Hiroshima makes you aware of the reality of the destruction by nuclear weapons," Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki said.
The attacks in the closing days of World War II remain controversial. Many in America believe they saved countless lives by forcing Japan to surrender, while others say they were an unjustified use of force on civilians.
"These atomic bombs were used on the Japanese people to terrorize the rest of the world," said Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won her peace prize in 1976 for her work to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
Two award winners from the countries with the biggest nuclear arsenals were not in attendance.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and a recipient in 1990 for his part in ending the Cold War, had to pull out at the last minute due to health reasons.
President Barack Obama, who will be in Japan for an economic summit, declined to attend, although he praised the meeting's efforts. Obama received an award last year, in part for his efforts on nuclear disarmament.
Other laureates in attendance include former South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk, Egyptian Mohamed ElBaradei, 2005 winner for his efforts to divert nuclear resources from being used in weapons, and Jody Williams, who won in 1997 for her work to ban landmines.
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Kuhio and Kawananakoa were merely used and "NIGGERS" for U.S. Congress, and U.S. Presidents who premeditated the move to assume lands, assets of a neutral, non violent, friendly nation and secure validation by conspiring kanaka maoli such as Kuhio and Kawananakoa whose families perpetuate the criminal activities even today"
So Kaohi, You who live on Hawaiian Homestead Lands are perpetuating the "Criminal Activities" even today that Kuhio did when he had Congress pass the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act? You, Kaohi, are the "N" for the U.S. Congress of today..That Kuhio is dead, but you Kaohi for how many years have Perpetuated the Cimminal Activities on your own People of the Blood? That You Kaohi continue to live on Crimminal Stolen Lands and You know of this Cimminal Act. That You Kaohi pay your property taxes on Crimminal Stolen Lands to the American Government. Treason!
Long Live The Hawaiian Kingdom ....... o Pomai
"Hiroshima makes you aware of the reality of the destruction by nuclear weapons," Gov. Hidehiko Yuzaki said.
The attacks in the closing days of World War II remain controversial. Many in America believe they saved countless lives by forcing Japan to surrender, while others say they were an unjustified use of force on civilians.
"These atomic bombs were used on the Japanese people to terrorize the rest of the world," said Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won her peace prize in 1976 for her work to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland.
Two award winners from the countries with the biggest nuclear arsenals were not in attendance.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and a recipient in 1990 for his part in ending the Cold War, had to pull out at the last minute due to health reasons.
President Barack Obama, who will be in Japan for an economic summit, declined to attend, although he praised the meeting's efforts. Obama received an award last year, in part for his efforts on nuclear disarmament."
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And why is OBAMA not attending............after receiving an award last year.....for his efforts on nuclear disarmament".................maybe OBAMA should be the first to be stripped of his award because his efforts to disarm is minimal, if at all.............he continues to support the destruction on Innocents even the use of nuclear weapons used in a neutral, non-violent nation, the Hawaiian Kingdom.........
Let us look at the truth about the Hawaiian Kingdom, Spain, Japan, etc. as a reminder to all about the criminal activities pursued by a pirating nation affecting the World yesterday and today:
"Indirectly the Spanish-American War was responsible for the annexation of Hawaii (1898) and American Samoa (1899)."
"American declaration of war on Japan had automatically involved the United States in War with Japan's allies, Germany and Italy, the Americans had to retain a large part of their fleet in the Atlantic and remain on the defensive in the Pacific."
vs.
The U.S. moved with the British, Dutch and Australian ships.
then the above article reveals:
"Mairead Corrigan Maguire, who won her peace prize in 1976 for her work to end sectarian violence in Northern Ireland."
Northern Ireland could be counted on the side of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Spain, Japan, Germany, Italy, and American Samoa.
Two award winners from the countries with the biggest nuclear arsenals were not in attendance.
Namely, Russia/Soviet Union and the U.S.
Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union and a recipient in 1990 for his part in ending the Cold War, had to pull out at the last minute due to health reasons.
President Obama ............declined to attend.
Therefore, the U.S., Great Britain, the Dutch, Australia, and Russia/Soviet Union can be seen as pro nuclear arms whose movement should be watched by everyone even today.
Reminder also, the 1822 Secret Treaty of Verona with the moves towards One World Order /New World Order was signed and agreed to by Austria, France, Russia, Prussia, the U.S., Great Britain/England, and the Vatican.
aloha.
Reference: SEA POWER - A Naval History editors EB Potter, and Chester W. Nimitz (1960)
"What do you think? Is it okay to use candy as an incentive or a reward for good behavior in school or even at home? Do you think it would be more appropriate now to find alternative methods to reward children at home and in school?"
I think it's ok to use candy - healthy candy such as dark chocolate as an incentive.....but it's not ok to throw five pieces of candy to a group of 12 kids in class............
that reminds me of the time when growing up in Kalihi, the Santa in the parade threw the hard candies at the kids.............most of whom were Hawaiian children............what I did like was when everyone picked up the candies and beaned the Santa back............now I think that should have happened in the classroom! lol...........where's the backbones of the kids............are the teachers treating them so that they are somewhat broken?............the next step is to get the parents involved because they remain unaware of what that teacher did to their kids in the classroom..............she needs to be reprimanded, let off a few days without pay to remind her that she is there servicing the babies and not there to destroy good feelings about themselves............that is, after all a form of abuse...........and the police should have been called as well to lodge a complaint of the ill treatment against their babies.........
no wonder some teachers end up with tires slashed, etc..........and the parents really do need to know about what went on in the classroom..........because that's not o.k..........she needs to take a hike.......ask for a transfer...........etc.
loving words, hugs, saying I love you are always good methods in rewarding children at home.....and in school complements are ALWAYS o.k.............colorful, sparkly pencils, bright colored erasers are alternative rewards for the babies.........
If I were in Waianae, I'd be sitting in the principals office by now.............filed police reports, etc............ and organizing a Parent Watch group, etc...................
am glad you have more feelings toward the babies..........are they trying to desensitize the babies about death, especially since it was the U.S. wrongdoing? ..............wicked..............
aloha.