Japan wins Nobel Peace Prize

[Grumpy Gramps]

Nobel Peace Prize is also for hibakusha: ICAN chief

GENEVA – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is not only for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons but also for the hibakusha — the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn said.

“This is their prize as well,” the ICAN executive director said Friday. “Hibakusha have been part of this campaign from the beginning and they are the ones who brought the humanitarian consequences message already in 1945.

“I really hope that they take this award — I mean some of them are members of ICAN — but all of them take this award as an award to them as well,” she said.

Awarding the peace prize Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee warned the world about the growing risks of nuclear weapons amid escalating threats from North Korea.

The award to the Geneva-based nongovernmental organization follows the adoption in July of a landmark U.N. treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. ICAN led efforts in campaigning for the treaty, working with hibakusha.

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Well done, Japan, congrats

[Russell]

Nobel Peace Prize is also for hibakusha: ICAN chief

GENEVA – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize is not only for the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons but also for the hibakusha — the survivors of the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — ICAN chief Beatrice Fihn said.

“This is their prize as well,” the ICAN executive director said Friday. “Hibakusha have been part of this campaign from the beginning and they are the ones who brought the humanitarian consequences message already in 1945.

“I really hope that they take this award — I mean some of them are members of ICAN — but all of them take this award as an award to them as well,” she said.

Awarding the peace prize Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee warned the world about the growing risks of nuclear weapons amid escalating threats from North Korea.

The award to the Geneva-based nongovernmental organization follows the adoption in July of a landmark U.N. treaty outlawing nuclear weapons. ICAN led efforts in campaigning for the treaty, working with hibakusha.

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Well done, Japan, congrats

Yes, totally agreed!

I feel good about this Peace Prize in particular.

[Grumpy Gramps]

I thought, it would be Trump as per tradition. Must say, this is lots better.

[Russell]

I thought, it would be Trump as per tradition. Must say, this is lots better.

Nah, the successor of Trump will get it.

For not being Trump...