13 Aug 2012

67 years since Hiroshima + Was London Olympics a Success? + Sick UK Youth - George Galloway

Rohingya people, the Muslims in Myanmar, have been the subject of a pogrom by the Myanmarese authorities and their non-Muslim neighbors. Myanmar President Thein Sein suggested in July that the country could solve the problem by expelling all of its Rohingyas or by having the United Nations resettle them, a proposal which the UN quickly rejected. More than 200,000 Rohingyas have fled across the Naf River to Bangladesh but the Bangladeshi authorities are turning them back to face their torturers. During the week, an anniversary passed almost unnoticed. At 8:15 AM on August 6th, 1945, 67 years ago, an American B-29 bomber called Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and immediately vaporized 140,000 civilians.
It was argued that the horror was necessary because Japan would not surrender. However, General Eisenhower who later became the US president opposed the dropping of the bomb. "Japan was already defeated. Dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary," he said.  Source

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