mysticwarrior: before the Geneva convention of 1949 there was the Hague convention of 1907 and the Geneva convention of 1925.
"The Hague Conventions were among the first formal statements of the laws of war and war crimes in the body of secular international law"
Have you watched and listened to the survivals of the Hiroshima bombing? Did you know little children under the age of 5 who were in school, were all roasted alive the day your American B29 Superfortress flew over Hiroshima and dropped that bomb?
Innocent men and women were killed, babies were killed. And Hiroshima went on to suffer for many more years as a result of the radiation caused by the bomb.
OhBritannia: Fbi raided the home of Donald Trump and you are here laughing and celebrating?
Fools!!!!!!!!!!! America is About or on the brink of a potential civil war and you are here laughing?
Even some top Democrats ain't happy with the news, i was watching CNN some minutes ago and you can tell that even the reporters are not happy with the news.
This isn't about being a democrat or a republican. At a time when the whole country needs to come together and sort out their differences so they can Unite against external enemies like Iran, China and Russia. Some Democrats are about to start a civil war and you are here laughing?
You haven't seen war before so you probably don't know what a war means for America where everyone has a gun.
This raid threatens everything America is built on. This raid threatens the peace of America down to the very foundation.
I give you few months from now, those responsible for this act of war are going to pay for it. Watch as this foolish act will make top Democrats start resigning because they wouldn't want to be part of this witch hunt anymore.
This was simply uncalled for and those responsible will pay for it, watch what's about to happen. Mark my words.
It's like DSS going to raid the home of former president Goodluck Jonathan when everyone knows he is innocent and even if you want to investigate Goodluck Jonathan, there are ways to go about it maturely and presidentially but going into his home to raid him threatens the very security of Nigeria.
Things like these should be handled like someone handling a raw egg. You have to handle it with care.
No nation in this modern world, be it America or china or Uk or Russia can survive a civil war, no matter how strong their military is.
Any nation that goes to a civil war in this era, is doomed forever.
The FBI should have known this.
This is the United States of America with strong institutions NOT Nigeria with weaker or work-in-progress institutions.
I agree there are some racial faultlines, but we are talking of strong legal institutions that made even Bill Clinton to come under the searchlight during the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal.
God1000: we're not talking about Nigeria here, so don't digress.
So you prefer a racist, white supremacist, demagogue, misogynist and corrupt Donald trump to decent Biden.
Please avoid commenting on my thread next time, this is my business, mind yours.
Lol...
I like your very blunt response to that simpleton of a guy on page one who was trying to sound intelligent. I was pissed off reading his unintelligent replies to the unfolding events involving Donald Trump in the U.S.
This is an NL Foreign Affairs section thread not a Nigeria Politics section thread.
1stGenAmerican: You’re right. 77 years later, the death and destruction is still acknowledged because mankind lived to tell. This was a means to an end.
The bloodthirsty terrorists on this forum beg, pray for nuclear war, and praise Putin but are too daft to realize the nuclear reactor being bombed can potentially melt the Earth’s core. If that or the nukes they’re wishing are launched by either side are launched, no one will be around to mark the any anniversaries.
Very well said @1stGenAmerican. I trust you're doing mad cool in TX.
I'm sort of glad that the Russian ambassador to Japan was at the 77th anniversary 3 days ago in Hiroshima and he matter-of-factly said in his speech in the presence of the Japanese PM and the UN Secretary-General that Russia would never use nuclear weapons.
My firm conviction is that countries with extremist religious ideologies such as Iran, Afghanistan, etc, must never, ever be allowed to lay their hands on high-grade nuclear technologies. Pakistan (which has a majority Muslim population) already has nukes from the 1970s just like her Indian next door neighbor and rival.
Pakistan, China and North Korea must be prevailed upon not to ever sell nuclear technologies in any form to radical Islamists or religious extremist countries who would not bat an eyelid before using it in a doomsday scenario.
mysticwarrior: thank you so much, I just finished reading it and I feel sorry for those innocent German citizens.
You're welcome.
When I first read David Irwing's book on the fire-bombing of Dresden in 1945 by the Allied forces in the early 2000s, those images of burned houses and human casualties left a chilling effect in me... and it wasn't even atomic bombs that were dropped.
It was just 3 straight days of massive air bombings of about 4000 tons of bombs thereby leading to a firestorm that destroyed the city of Dresden!
Wars can be truly retrogressive in the short to medium-term! Only creative minds with innovation can lift up countries such as Japan and Germany from the ashes of defeat in the long-term.
Today, August 9th, 2022 marks the 77th year of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The atomic bomb was meant for another nearby Japanese city, but because of very heavy clouds, the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki and it landed in a valley thereby preventing a firestorm like what happened in Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945 and Dresden, Germany in 1945 as well.
President Harry Truman also gave a recorded speech before the second atomic bombing telling all Japanese civilians to leave the cities because of the imminent bombing (which today would definitely have amounted to war crimes under current international laws). About 75,000 Japanese residents of Nagasaki lost their lives in the bombing which even missed it's original target and landed in the valley in Nagasaki.
Iran and other fundamentalist and renegade countries MUST be prevented from having high-grade uranium for military use. Russia, North Korea and China must be prevailed upon to learn from the horrendous events of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, to prevent mankind's rapid decimation, and eventual descent into fighting with sticks and stones.
mysticwarrior: the bombing of pearl harbor was targetted at military personnel, while the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a deliberate act to slaughter unarmed civilians, women, children and even babies, its a perfect description of war crimes and crime against humanity.
This will also be of interest to you @mysticwarrior,
By the way... You've sparked my curiosity here, the guguru should be from what part of the North? You know the North is not monolithic in culture and cuisine/foods.
It seems you are based over there in the North of Nigeria?
Ahmback: Some say the U.S' attack on Japan wasn't justified! What do u have to say about it?
@Ahmback, To be brutally honest, it was "kinda justified" because Imperial Japan was proving stubborn even after the Germans had surrendered during WW11. The Japs kept on fighting (and we know that many Nigerian and West African servicemen were on active duty against the Japanese in Burma [now Myanmar]. The Africans in the Colonial Armies fought bravely against the hardened Japanese).
On the other hand, the targets in Hiroshima and Nagasaki had NO MAJOR MILITARY facilities or significance [just like the Allied bombing of civilian targets in Dresden, Germany, popularly called the "fire-bombing of Dresden." Over 100,000 innocent German men, women and children died and were burned and/or partially burned to ashes during the several air-raids on Dresden].
Ahmback: As stupid as this may sound, nobody, i repeat, nobody ever talks about the pains caused to U.S Servicemen during the surprise attack on Pearl Harbour. These people were fathers and mother of humans as well. Make una dey sha reason things from both sides nah
Yeah! This is the reason why annual memorials are done for those servicemen who passed on in that horrendous attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii by Imperial Japan.
The Japanese too were busy colonising and invading nearby countries, raping women during the invasion of Nanking Province in China and behaving dictatorially in the 1930s and early 1940s. Japan being resource-poor wanted access to mineral resources such as crude oil and metals so they had to invade Korea, China, and other lands to get these resources.
They miscalculated, attacked Pearl Harbor and... Boom got hit by the United States with the two atomic bombs on August 6th and 9th, 1945.
But then the Japanese learned some punishing lessons from that atomic bombing experience via radiation, body deformity, blindness and cancer. May it never happen that mankind has to go through what the Japanese went through again.
Do you know that guguru is made slightly different from the way popcorn is made? With guguru, the corns are more expected to toast than pop, and they're not as sticky as popcorn, but dry.
Woah! I've learned something new today... I've always thought that "guguru is simply popcorn" in Yoruba language. I never knew there's a difference in the way some varieties of popcorn are made according to your submission here.
I have a sweet tooth though, and I occassionally love the sweetened popcorn whenever it's available.
Great insights from you. Have a popcorny, great day ahead.
Do you know that guguru is made slightly different from the way popcorn is made? With guguru, the corns are more expected to toast than pop, and they're not as sticky as popcorn, but dry.
@mariahAngel,
Really? Is it any different from what is in this video below?
mariahAngel: Guguru are like popcorn, but they don't fully pop, making them a bit harder to chew (more like toasted corn). They're best eaten with groundnuts.
You're incorrect @mariahAngel
Guguru is SIMPLY the Yoruba word for popcorn.
Guguru ati epa simply means popcorn and groundnuts/peanuts.
gloryhomemaker: In this video I showed a detailed 5 minutes process on how to make sweet pop corn on the stove with your pot easy and quick at home. We are in the holiday season again, make new and exciting things to keep them entertained so they wont be bored. You and the children will love and enjoy it.
06 August 2022 Secretary-General's remarks at the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations
Excellencies, brave hibakusha, young peace activists, ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you for the honour of inviting me today. [本日はお招きいただき、感謝申し上げます。] Hon-jitsu wa, omaneki itadaki, kan-sha moushiage masu.
Seventy-seven years ago, tens of thousands of people were killed in this city, in the blink of an eye.
Women, children and men were incinerated in a hellish fire.
Buildings turned to dust.
Survivors were cursed with a radioactive legacy.
Polluted by cancer.
Stalked by health problems.
And marked by telltale scars on their bodies — the stigma of surviving the most destructive attack in human history.
The unflinching testimonies of the hibakusha remind us of the fundamental folly of nuclear weapons.
Nuclear weapons are nonsense.
Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945.
Or from the Cold War and the terrifying near-misses that placed humanity within minutes of annihilation.
Or from the promising decades of arsenal reductions and widespread acceptance of the principles against the use, proliferation and testing of nuclear weapons.
Because a new arms race is picking up speed.
World leaders are enhancing stockpiles at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars.
Almost 13,000 nuclear weapons are held in arsenals around the world.
And crises with grave nuclear undertones are spreading fast — from the Middle East, to the Korean peninsula, to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
It is totally unacceptable for states in possession of nuclear weapons to admit the possibility of nuclear war.
Humanity is playing with a loaded gun.
There are signs of hope.
In June, members of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons met for the first time to develop a roadmap towards a world free of these doomsday weapons.
And right now, the Tenth Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is taking place in New York.
Today, from this sacred space, I call on this Treaty’s members to work urgently to eliminate the stockpiles that threaten our future.
To strengthen dialogue, diplomacy and negotiation.
And to support my disarmament agenda by eliminating these devices of destruction.
Countries with nuclear weapons must commit to the “no first use” of those weapons. They must also assure States that do not have nuclear weapons that they will not use — or threaten to use — nuclear weapons against them. And they must be transparent throughout.
We must keep the horrors of Hiroshima in view at all times, recognizing there is only one solution to the nuclear threat: not to have nuclear weapons at all.
Ladies and gentlemen,
At the height of the Cold War, schoolchildren learned to hide under desks.
But leaders cannot hide from their responsibilities.
My message to them is simple:
Take the nuclear option off the table — for good.
It’s time to proliferate peace.
Heed the message of the hibakusha: “No more Hiroshimas! No more Nagasakis!”
And to the young people here today: Finish the work that the hibakusha have begun.
The world must never forget what happened here. The memory of those who died — and the legacy of those who survived — will never be extinguished.
Tomorrow, August 9, 2022 will mark the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki as well. Mankind MUST heed the call of the UN Secretary-General to dismantle the nukes otherwise we'll become toasted bread or worse in my own words.
emmyluizzz: Nigeria is doing a great job at birmingham 2022 commonwealth games . currently they have 12 gold out of the 35 medal they have collected..is really a proud moment for the nation
Yeah! They can improve on this medal haul if the men improve on their fitness and work ethics NEXT TIME. Congrats to all the ladies for putting up a strong showing due to the 'Tobi Amusan and Ese Brume positive contagion.
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a native of Hiroshima, attended the commemoration dedicated to the victims of the 1945 atomic bombing on August 6, 2022. The attack claimed more than 140,000 lives.
Bells tolled in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday to mark the 77th anniversary of the world's first atomic bombing.
In Peace Park in central Hiroshima, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was among leaders gathered to mark the precise moment that the United States dropped the atomic bomb, resulting in 140,000 deaths by the end of 1945, many of them instantaneous upon the bomb's impact. It is only the second time that a UN Secretary-General has taken part in the annual event.
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, a native of Hiroshima, was also in attendance.
A moment of silence and doves for peace The crowds, which included leaders and diplomats, observed a moment of silence at the exact time the bomb exploded. Hundreds of doves, a symbol of peace, were released.
On August 6, 1945 at 8:15 a.m., the US B-29 warplane Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb, given the nickname "Little Boy." Three days later, on August 9, a second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing 75,000 people instantly and leading to Japan's unconditional surrender in the war.
The city of Hiroshima, with a population of 350,000 at the time, was leveled immediately and, in addition to the people killed with the atomic bomb's impact, thousands later died of injuries and radiation sickness.
Guterres: "We are one mistake 'away from Armageddon" The anniversary comes amid renewed concerns about nuclear proliferation, with Guterres warning of an arms race after Russia's decision to invade Ukraine on February 24.
Russia's seizure of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine in March and its use as a base of military operations ever since has also heightened concerns about the safety of civilian nuclear power.
"We are one mistake, one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from Armageddon," Guterres said.
"Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we've learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945," he added.
Guterres did not mention Russia directly in his address.
The Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui was more critical of Moscow in his remarks. "In invading Ukraine, the Russian leader, elected to protect the lives and property of his people, is using them as instruments of war, stealing the lives and livelihoods of civilians in a different country," Matsui said.
"Around the world," Matsui said, "the notion that peace depends on nuclear deterrence gains momentum."
Prime Minister Kishida told Guterres that he strongly condemns China's recent ballistic missile launches as "a serious issue concerning Japan's security and the safety of Japanese people," according to an official statement.
The Russian ambassador to Japan, Mikhail Galuzin, laid flowers at the site of a memorial stone in the park on Thursday. Galuzin told reporters that his country would not use nuclear weapons. Since the Ukraine war started, Vladimir Putin said Russia would use its nuclear arsenal to "defend its sovereignty" and state TV hosts routinely take a bellicose tone on the matter.
TheWolfen: I bet it will feels like the world has come an end. The lightning can blind eyes. The massive heat can melt anything, the shockwave can send buildings tumbling down and even shatter glasses of people's building in neighboring cities, all these happens in seconds the moment the bomb lands ... Nuclear bombs are no joke.
I don't think Japanese can ever forgive USA for dropping bomb on them
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I am telling you the truth others might not tell you.
Only come to UK, Germany, USA and others with Working permit from Nigeria. I swear with everything i have in life, if you choose to ignore my advice, chai, you ll cry day and night anywhere in Europe or America.
If you see how many Nigerians in Prisons in UK alone, you ll cry. If you see how Nigerians and other Africans are living in the bush with tents in Italy and France borders, you ll cry for these people but they won’t tell you.
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