Nihon Hidankyo is the name that was revealed this morning by the Norwegian Nobel Committee as winner of Nobel Peace Prize 2024. In the words of its president, this entity was rewarded “for its efforts to achieve a free world nuclear weapons and for having demonstrated through their testimonies that nuclear weapons must no longer be used more”.
In this way, the organization seeks to honor the members of the entity, survivors of the atomic bombs of Hiroshima And Nagasaki. “Despite the physical suffering and painful memories, they chose use your costly experience to cultivate hope and commitment to peace,” he said.
“They help us to describe the indescribable, to think the unthinkable and to somehow understand the incomprehensible pain and suffering that nuclear weapons cause,” he adds.
The entity reminds that next year it will be 80 years since two American atomic bombs They killed around 120,000 inhabitants of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What is the Nihon Hidankyo organization?
The Norwegian Committee recalls that the fate of survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha. But that changed in 1956, when local Hibakusha associations, together with victims of nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, formed the Japanese Confederation of Bomb Victims’ Organizations A and H. This name was shortened in Japanese to Nihon Hidankyowhich became the organization Hibakusha the largest and most influential in Japan.
That of Peace This is the fifth prize announced so far, following those of Medicine, Physical, Chemistry And Literatureand succeeds that granted in 2023 aa Narges Mohammadian Iranian activist. A new name is thus added to the 102 editions of this category, which rewarded 110 people and 31 organizations. The first Nobel Peace Prize was awarded in 1901 to the Frenchman Frédéric Passy and the Swiss Jean Henri Dunant.
The Nobel Peace Prize of recent years
Mohammadi was released from prison last year after being convicted of leading the defense of women’s rights since I was a physics student. In fact, throughout its life, the Iranian regime has arrested 13 times, including five convicted. One of these times a total of 31 years in prison and 154 eyelashes.
She remains imprisoned. The Iranian activist he was sentenced again in June always one year in prison for spreading contrary messages to the regime and of carrying out “propaganda against the State”, a judgment which adds to the long list of accusations brought against her, which earned her a sentence of twelve years and three months in prison and 154 whippings.
Last August was injured in the hands of prison security guards of Evin during a demonstration against the execution of Gholamreza Rasaei, a 34-year-old Kurd convicted of the murder of a Agent of the Revolutionary Guards during the 2022 protests.
The previous year, in 2022, the prize was awarded to the Belarusian Alès Bialiatski and the Russian memorial organizations and the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties.
