Posted
9:06 AM
by Gene
Not everyone is pleased with the new winner of the Jimmy Carter Memorial Nobel Prize:Terumi Tanaka, secretary-general of Hidankyo, which represents Japanese survivors of the 1945 U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hidankyo and founder Senji Yamaguchi, a 74-year-old survivor of Nagasaki, had also been nominated: "It's very disappointing. We had hoped that if we were able to win the award, it would give us a big boost and provide great encouragement for 'hibakusha' (atom bomb victims) who are growing old." Asked what he thought of the award being given to the IAEA and ElBaradei, he said: "It's not an organization that has conducted peace activities. It is very disappointing."That's putting it mildly.