Close-up： ＂Against the war!＂ ＂Smash the summit!＂ -The G-7 summit ended in protest.
Xinhua News Agency, Hiroshima, Japan, May 21st Close-up: "Against the war!" "Smash the summit!" — — The G-7 summit ended in protest.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Qiaomei Shen Honghui
"Against the war!" "Smash the summit!" … … On the 21st, protesters marched slowly in the center of Hiroshima, Japan, surrounded by hundreds of heavily armed riot police. They held various placards and kept shouting slogans, and their passionate voices echoed in the air.
Amid protests from people in Japan and other countries, the three-day Group of Seven (G7) summit ended in Hiroshima on the 21st. On the same day, the Japanese people and people from other countries once again held a large-scale rally and demonstration in downtown Hiroshima to protest against the convening of the G-7 summit.
Near noon, the sun is like fire.
Protesters clashed with police when the parade marched near a commercial street in the city center. The reporter saw at the scene that dozens of policemen rushed into the crowd to forcibly hold down several young people, and the scene was in chaos, with shoes and placards scattered on the ground … … Ten minutes later, the procession set off again, and the protesters marched arm in arm one by one to avoid being hit by the police.
Previously, people who took part in the parade gathered in Pocahontas Park, not far from the atomic bomb site. Among the crowd were foreigners with different skin colors, white-haired old people and young people with helmets and high morale … …
Two young people pulled up a giant banner near the podium of the rally, which read "Smash the G7 Hiroshima Summit". There are also various placards in the square: "Revoke the US military base in Japan" and "Oppose the Japan-US military alliance" & HELIP; … Every word represents the voice of the people involved who love peace and oppose war.
The organizer of the event said in the statement: "The G7 Hiroshima Summit is a war conference, claiming to provide military assistance to Ukraine and intensify and expand the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. We will never tolerate such a summit!"
Twenty-one victims of the nuclear explosion in Hiroshima and their families also issued a joint statement saying: "Japanese imperialism colonized Asian countries and launched a war of aggression, which led to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The victims of the nuclear explosion and their families must not tolerate the recurrence of the tragedies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
Representatives from different regions and organizations spoke in turn, saying that the essence of the G7 Hiroshima Summit was a hegemonic war conference sponsored by the United States, and the convening of such a conference in Hiroshima by the Kishida regime was a ruthless trampling on the victims of nuclear explosion and the citizens of Hiroshima.
Hiroshima citizen Hiroko Oe read a special letter, in which an Iraqi doctor wrote, "The G7 Hiroshima Summit was an unjust summit held at the behest of the United States, and no one dared to violate the United States." Dajiang said that the Japanese people are firmly opposed to the war that the United States and Japan want to provoke. "This is not our war, not the war of the people. We must never be trapped by hegemonism and must resolutely oppose it."
An old man in the crowd stood out. The old man’s surname is Koizumi. On the top of his backpack, there is a sign that says with a brush, "The Ukrainian war is a script directed by the American ruler!" And so on. Koizumi arrived from Osaka on 17th to take part in the protest. He criticized: "The United States has sacrificed the lives of the Ukrainian people to support its military industry, and recently wants to lead the war to Asia."
A long string of paper cranes praying for peace hangs on the wall of the media center of the G7 Hiroshima Summit, which reads "May everyone in this world smile".