[sacw] Hiroshima March in Mumbai [Bombay, India]

[Harsh Kapoor]

August 3, 1999
FYI
(South Asians Against Nukes)
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Hiroshima March in Mumbai

While the Global Peace March, which started on 11th May from Pokhran,
exactly a year after the nuclear explosions carried out by the less
than two month old BJP-led government in India, converges at Sarnath on
6th August as its culmination, Mumbai goes ahead in solidarity with its
traditional commemoration of the Hiroshima Day.
On 6th August , the day on which 44 years back the city of Hiroshima
was incinerated with an atom bomb dropped from the sky - mainly to
demonstrate the enormity of the brutal power at the command of the
American state and thereby daze the rest of the world into meek
submission, Mumbai will carry forward the world-wide tradition of
expressing deepest horror, revulsion and indignation at the ghastly
memory of Hiroshima (and Nagasaki, which was bombed three days after)
through a silent Peace March to be taken out from the Azad Maidan,
sharp at 3 o' clock, to the Hutatma Chowk in the busy downtown area.
The organisers, The Citizens' Committee for Commemoration of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, will administer a Peace Pledge to the marchers at the
termination of the march.
The march will be joined in a big way by students, workers, women and
others. More so, as the issue of nuclear disarmament and peace has
become extremely important and critical in the south Asia region in the
wake of Pokhran, Chagai and Kargil.