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How Did the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction Violate the People of Hiroshima's Human Rights?

By Jacquelyn Slaughter, published Nov 21, 2005
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Weapons of mass destruction are a violation of the people of Hiroshima’s human rights on several accounts. We the people of the United States live by the two words know as human rights, it is what this country was morally established on. The definition speaks to our hearts mind and our soul” the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, and equality before the law.”(3) First and for most, the people of Hiroshima are human just like the United States citizens. We enjoy the fact that we can go and come as we pleased and if any one tries to stop us or harm us we have the right to naturally defend ourselves, our belongings, our families, and our beliefs. On a daily bases the people of Hiroshima enjoy their natural rights in pursuits of their happiness whatever they chose them to be. They have families which includes a loving mother father and children, which they feed in the morning and kiss them good bye in hopes to see them when they return. The group of natives in the book called “Hiroshima” did just that, the morning of August 6th 1945.

Minutes before 8:15am this particular group of individuals, (Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fuji, Mrs. Nakamura, Father Kleinsorge, Dr. Sasaki and Rev. Tamimoto), were busy at their everyday activities enjoying their freedom, privacy, loved ones, work places, and churches. Then seconds after on August 6th at 8:15am their human rights were violated and their whole world changed. As I read vividly imagine through the novel “Hiroshima” my eyes begin to water and fill with tears. The horrifying vivid images after 8:15am on the 6th of August left Hiroshima in pieces. The Hiroshima group’s rights were more then violated they were stolen mutilated, and washed away. The United State did something that was unforgivable and inhuman. The United States had dropped an atomic bomb called “Little Boy” on Hiroshima with no warning, at least not an appropriate one.

Takeaways
  • Hiroshima
  • President Truman
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction
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