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Youth Take the Lead in Antinuclear Movement
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Celebrating
the opening of the exhibition [İSeikyo
Shimbun] |
From September 8-16, SGI-UK hosted an antinuclear exhibition
produced by its youth members at its South London culture
center, which was visited by some 2,000 people. Dr. Robert
Hinde, Chair of the British Pugwash Group and professor of
zoology at Cambridge University, gave a keynote speech. Dr.
Hinde spoke about the cruelty of war through his own wartime
experiences, as well as his feelings on visiting the
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. "In order to eliminate
human suffering, war itself must be eliminated," he
stressed.
The first Pugwash Conference was held in 1957, the same year
second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda made his antinuclear
declaration, entrusting the task of achieving the abolition
of nuclear weapons to young people. The renowned astronomer,
Prof. Chandra Wickramasinghe, whose dialogue with SGI
President Daisaku Ikeda has been published as Space and
Eternal Life, also visited the exhibit.
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