8-9-06, 10:30 pm

Nagasaki, Japan, Aug 9 (Prensa Latina) With a minute s silence, the sounding of sirens and a new list with a thousands of names of victims, Nagasaki recalled Wednesday the 61st anniversary of the atomic attack with a condemnation to the US.

More than 5,000 people, including victims, surviving families and Mayor Itcho Ito, participated in the annual ceremony at Peace Park in this southeastern Japanese city.

In his message for peace, Ito criticized the US, with the world s largest nuclear arsenal, for not doing enough in favor to stop proliferation of those kind of armaments, despite its historical responsibility with Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

He denounced Washington s plans to attack several nations with nuclear weapons while expressing concern about militarism in Japan, where the government is tending to change in the near future the pacifist Constitution to provide its forces with a real military power.

The Nagasaki mayor urged the Executive to preserve the Magna Carta, which bans military actions abroad, and abide to the principles of not producing or allowing the presence of atomic weapons in Japan.

On August 9, 1945, the US air force dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing 73,800 people and injuring nearly 75,000.

From that date, 126,630 people have died due to the bomb's effects.

From Prensa Latina