Hibakusha, mayors hold N.Y. march

"Hibakusha, Mayors Hold N.Y. March | The Japan Times Online." 04 May 2010. Web. 04 May 2010. .

Atomic-bomb survivors and mayors, as well as members of nongovernmental organizations from around the world, held a 2-km march Sunday in New York City to seek the elimination of nuclear weapons ahead of a major nonproliferation review. Calls for a nuclear-free world were also made at other events in New York, many led by Japanese campaigners who are visiting the city to have their voices heard at the five-year U.N. Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference that starts Monday and will run through May 28. Marching from Times Square in midtown Manhattan to UN headquarters on the East River, the demonstrators led by Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue.

I think that these people marching are very courageous in standing up for what they believe in, which in many marches is the main reason. The reason for them doing this is because of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War ll. It devastated them when that happened to them and now they want to be heard so this wont happen again or so there wont be anything else to do with nuclear weapons or war. Because that is not the right solution to foreign problems. I think that people from different countries should just sit down and talk about their problems with another country, to find the right solution to anything, without having to fight about it through war.