Friday, 16 November 2012

Hiroshima Dr. Hida(94 years old) called for abolition of both nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants in the world at foreign Correspondents' Club in Japan in November 2011

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18530453 13m30s - 

Here is a transcript of his speech:
I was working as the only military doctor in Hiroshima hospital at the time of Hiroshima atomic bomb in 1945…..since I have been looking after thousands of Hibakusha (=nuclear bomb victims) for 65 years.  I saw people who had died directly hit by atomic bombs and besides hibakusha developing high fever, and finally died with massive bleeding from their mouths, noses, eyes and genitals, etc.  But what was even more shocking to me was that people who came to Hiroshima afterwards alsodeveloped the similar symptoms and died. I have continued to see patients who had suffered unknown diseases throughout their lives due to the internal exposure to radiation caused by intake or inhalation of radioactive materials into their body.  I believe they are the most prominent victims of this nuclear age.  However under the occupation of US military, General MacCarser made hibakush a Military secrete.  And he issued official order not to talk and write about them.  He also prohibited physicians and scalars to study Hibakusha, and proclaimed that those who violated recorder should be similarly punished.  All the hibakusha were totally ignorance and followed their word.…..  Moreover the atomic bombs casualty commission later known as the radiation effect association strongly claimed that internal exposure to radiation is harmless to human body because the radiation level is so low.  So hibakusha suffering so called a burabura disease (consistent chronic sluggishness) were told that it is a fake which add more suffering to hibakusha.  I have also seen some burabura disease patients among nuclear power plant workers.  Electric companies have often announced that there is no damage to human body after nuclear accident.  But how come person from an electric company, who is not even doctor assured that there is no health damage immediately after the accident……… After the Fukushima accident, three nuclear power plant workers died.  And Topco denied any casualties from the radiation.  How they can prove that there is no relation to radiation?  In fact hundreds of mothers consulted me after the Fukushima accident whose children are suffering nose bleeding, fever and swelling thyroid and developing spots not only from Fukushima and north eastern Japan but also from Tokyo metropolitan area and as far as Yamanashi and Shizuoka prefecture.  …. I am seriously worried myself as I don’t know exactly what they can do.    No family can now be totally safe from radiation in Japan.  Only way for us all to survive is to abolish both nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants in the world. 
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