The most heinous massacre ever in human history was committed on this day 64 years back. The world came to know ho
w destructive nuclear bombs are but still they manufacture it. They stock it. They sign agreements. Such absoluteness of infallibility, such insecurity, such ignorance. As a part of ‘manufactured consent’ the American establishment have, with much degree of success, spread this canard that killing millions of innocent people, was meant for peace- more precisely victory of peace. The American view of History is surely not the world history. Truman should have gone down the history with likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…..what scoundrels, what savages. Yasuka Mikami a survivor had this to say of the fateful day
"..We tried to open the eyes of the injured and we found out they were still alive. We tried to carry them by their arms and legs and to place them onto the fire truck. But this was difficult because their skin was peeled off as we tried to move them. They were all heavily burned..."
The full account of children can read at http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/children.html.
Akira Kurosawa is a Director I am always very fascinated with, I happen to see the movie Rhapsody in August sometime back. It is a poignant statement on the massacre. The memories of people, who survived, permanently scared. The eye keeps staring, the eye of the flash. The eye of death juxtaposing with beautiful moon. An evocative poem from the movie.
And the boy a rose did see
a rose standing in the field
blossoming in innocence
awed by the color it did yield
a never ending fascination
for the crimson color
of the rose standing in the field.
The elderly lady who survived the holocaust says in a scene (in the movie Rhapsody in August):
“They did drop the atom bomb, and they resent being reminded of it?. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to remember it. But I can’t have them pretending ignorance. They claim they dropped the flash (meaning bomb) to stop war. It’s already been 45 years now. But the flash has not stopped the war they are still killing people.
But you know…war is to blame. People can do anything …just to win a war. Sooner or later it will be the ruin of all of us” .
Although the elderly woman says in the movie as 45 years, it is so true even now. And will be true as long as we have irresponsible, insensitive and insecure people at the helm of affairs. President Bush has done more damage to the world than anyone for a long time. Americans are responsible for this. And they are also as guilty of killing innocent people in Lebanon as the Israeli Army is. In the UN meanwhile USA and France are fighting over the draft, France insists on using ‘cessation’ while dudes from USA want it to be ‘suspension’. Surely not sense of humour. Most Americans may find this shocking but the fact is: value of life is same everywhere. American life is as precious as the life of a boy in Beirut, a Sunni or a Shia or whatever. As the elderly woman says “I can’t have them pretending ignorance”. Ever heard of Boomerang?......it comes back if not now, it will someday. On that day when you give long speeches please don’t blame the world. Spare us.
w destructive nuclear bombs are but still they manufacture it. They stock it. They sign agreements. Such absoluteness of infallibility, such insecurity, such ignorance. As a part of ‘manufactured consent’ the American establishment have, with much degree of success, spread this canard that killing millions of innocent people, was meant for peace- more precisely victory of peace. The American view of History is surely not the world history. Truman should have gone down the history with likes of Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin…..what scoundrels, what savages. Yasuka Mikami a survivor had this to say of the fateful day"..We tried to open the eyes of the injured and we found out they were still alive. We tried to carry them by their arms and legs and to place them onto the fire truck. But this was difficult because their skin was peeled off as we tried to move them. They were all heavily burned..."
The full account of children can read at http://www.csi.ad.jp/ABOMB/children.html.
Akira Kurosawa is a Director I am always very fascinated with, I happen to see the movie Rhapsody in August sometime back. It is a poignant statement on the massacre. The memories of people, who survived, permanently scared. The eye keeps staring, the eye of the flash. The eye of death juxtaposing with beautiful moon. An evocative poem from the movie.
And the boy a rose did see
a rose standing in the field
blossoming in innocence
awed by the color it did yield
a never ending fascination
for the crimson color
of the rose standing in the field.
The elderly lady who survived the holocaust says in a scene (in the movie Rhapsody in August):
“They did drop the atom bomb, and they resent being reminded of it?. If they don’t like it, they don’t have to remember it. But I can’t have them pretending ignorance. They claim they dropped the flash (meaning bomb) to stop war. It’s already been 45 years now. But the flash has not stopped the war they are still killing people.
But you know…war is to blame. People can do anything …just to win a war. Sooner or later it will be the ruin of all of us” .
Although the elderly woman says in the movie as 45 years, it is so true even now. And will be true as long as we have irresponsible, insensitive and insecure people at the helm of affairs. President Bush has done more damage to the world than anyone for a long time. Americans are responsible for this. And they are also as guilty of killing innocent people in Lebanon as the Israeli Army is. In the UN meanwhile USA and France are fighting over the draft, France insists on using ‘cessation’ while dudes from USA want it to be ‘suspension’. Surely not sense of humour. Most Americans may find this shocking but the fact is: value of life is same everywhere. American life is as precious as the life of a boy in Beirut, a Sunni or a Shia or whatever. As the elderly woman says “I can’t have them pretending ignorance”. Ever heard of Boomerang?......it comes back if not now, it will someday. On that day when you give long speeches please don’t blame the world. Spare us.
