Candles floating in memory of victims
The candles were lit at Reykjavík's pond the same day but 78 years after the attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 9 1945. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
Candles were set floating on the Reykjavik pond last night to honor the memory of the victims of the nuclear assault on Hiroshima and Nagasaki i Japan. It was on August 6 1945 that Hiroshima was bombed and August 9 1945 when the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki marked the beginning of the end of the second world war.
The nuclear assault caused massive deaths of mostly Japanese civilians and is to this day the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
People gathered together at the southeast part of the pond at 22:30 last night. The poet and librarian, Einar Ólafsson, gave a memorial speech and Eyrún Ósk Jónsdóttir read a poem.
People gathered at the southeast end of the pond to set the memorial candles a float. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
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Guttormur Þorsteinsson, the spokesperson of CAM (Campaign Agaist Militarism) in Iceland was in charge of the meeting. mbl.is/Eggert Jóhannesson
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