Remember Hiroshima, Remember Bhopal

To remember the 70th and 30th anniversaries of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima Nuclear bombing and the Union Carbide disaster, respectively, a programme was organised here on Sunday.The Remember Bhopal Museum in collaboration with the Regional Science Centre, Bhopal commemorated the 70th and 30th anniversary of the Nagasaki-Hiroshima Nuclear bombing and the Union Carbide disaster to pay homage to the sufferers.

The event was held into three sections beginning from 3 pm.The programme began with the screening of the film 'The Yes Men Fix the World’. The Yes Men Fix the World is a 2009 English language documentary film about the culture jamming exploits of The Yes Men.later, a talk by Kumar Sundaram from the Coalition for Nuclear disarmament and Peace was held. During the talk he threw light on the damages happened due to Nuclear bombing. The programme was followed by a discussion with the audience.

The Regional Science Centre also showcased an annual exhibition of exclusive photographs from the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Nuclear bombing at the venue as well.It’s noteworthy that in the 70 years of that inhuman act, the world continues to see the consequences of this achievement. The 'little Boy and the 'Fat Man' together killed over 1,29,000 people, most of them civilians and caused tremendous damage to the environment. Survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki remain acutely ill with cancer related illness due to radiation. These 70 years has also shown that Nuclear devastation does not need war as is evident from the Chernobyl accident, the Fukushima 

disaster.  It is also 30 years of the Bhopal Disaster, infamously known as the Chemical Hiroshima. The Bhopal case illustrates how corporate evade their human rights responsibilities and underlines the need to establish a universal human rights framework that can be applied to corporate directly. Union Carbide's chemical wastes have contaminated a vast swath of Bhopal. “The programme has been designed for the young audience who are the future sentinels of human rights and ecological protection” says Kokila Bhattacharya of Remember Bhopal Museum.