The 67th Hiroshima Day was observed in Bangladesh on Monday as elsewhere in the world, marking the dropping of atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan on 6 and 9 August 1945.
A number of organisations in Bangladesh observed the day with programmes.
The Bangladesh Peace Council organised a discussion at the Reporters’ Unity.
The council president Mozaffar Hossain Paltu presided over the occasion while lawmaker Rashed Khan Menon, Gana Oikya Committee convener Pankaj Bhattacharya, Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president Hasanul Haque Inu, Bangladesh Communist Party president Manjurul Ahsan Khan and general secretary Mojahidul Islam Selim, amongst others, spoke at the discussion.
Rashed Khan Menon said that despite possessing nuclear weapons itself, the United States had been trying to stop other countries, notably Iran and North Korea, from acquiring them.
He added that Bangladesh had recently signed a treaty with Russia to deploy a nuclear power plant and urged the government to reconsider the matter.
Pankaj Bhattacharya said that the US had always been intervening in the internal affairs of other countries so that it can establish its imperialist designs around the world.
Hasanul Haque Inu said that many states had been producing their own arsenals to ensure safety and security and this should have been stopped.
The government of Bangladesh should allocate more in the education sector rather allocating the arms sector, he added.
The Liberation War Museum arranged a youth rally which was followed by anti-war poems and songs written by school students.
-With New Age input
