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Hiroshima Bomb victims remembered

Tavistock Square, London. Tue 6 Aug 2019



 Buddhist monk Rev Gyoro Nagase stops to talk with Bruce Kent

 Baroness Jenny Jones introduces the event

 and Raised Voices sing

 

 The Mayor of Camden Cllr Maryam Eslamdoust

 speaks at the event

 

 A young volunteer read from John Hersey's 1946 book 'Hiroshima'

 

 

 

 Carol Turner

 Shigeo Kobayashi, Japan Against Nuclear, reads the English translation of today's speech by the

 Mayor of Hiroshima at their memorial event

 

 

 

  folk singer and D-Day veteran Jim Radford sings

 

 

 

 Bernard Miller, the son of former Camden Mayor Millie Miller who planted the Hiroshima Cherry Tree in Tavistock Square in 1967

 Rev Gyoro Nagase, Buddhist monk, monk, Battersea Peace Pagoda

 rings prayer bells

 and drums

 

 Baroness JennyJones

 

 

 CND General Secretary Kate Hudson

 

 Carol Turner chair of London Region CND

 Raised voices sing

 and people come to lay flowers

 at the Hiroshima Cherry Tree, led by the Mayor of Camden

 

 

 

 

 

 
     

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