It has been 77 years since the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki one of the deadliest war crimes in the history of the world, and the deafening silence of the highest international community claiming to defend human rights from this mass killing continues using the most unconventional type of weapon.
On the 77th anniversary of the Hiroshima nuclear disaster, the Japanese commemorated thousands of victims of the US atomic attack on the city, Washington and the international institutions have not acted responsibly in this regard while behaving in a way that nothing happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the whole story was just a story after more than three quarter-centuries.
During this time, international courts have remained silent, causing widespread US war crimes to be repeated in various parts of the world, including Iraq and Afghanistan.
In other words, the deafening silence of the international community opened the way for a repeat of similar US crimes around the world, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively) were two atomic operations conducted against the Japanese Empire during World War II on the orders of then-US President Harry Truman.
In these two operations, two atomic bombs were dropped on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in three days, resulting in widespread destruction and killing of civilians in the two cities. About 220,000 people died from the two atomic bombings, 20,000 of them were Japanese troops and the rest were civilians.
More than 100,000 people were killed immediately during the bombing, and the rest died by the end of 1945 from the devastating effects of radioactive radiation.
After the atomic bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945), the US also bombed Nagasaki (August 9, 1945) to force the Japanese government to surrender to the war, and shortly thereafter, the then Emperor of Japan announced that he had made unconditional peace with the Allies to preserve the generation of his country's people to stop the greatest crime against humanity.
Translated by Amin Mohammadzadegan Khoyi
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