Japan remembers Hiroshima

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HIROSHIMA, Aug 6 (Reuters): Japan marked the 62nd anniversary of Hiroshima's atomic bombing with a solemn ceremony Monday as the city's mayor criticised the United States for refusing to give up its nuclear weapons programme.
Tens of thousands of elderly survivors, children and dignitaries gathered at the Peace Memorial Park, near ground zero where the bomb was dropped, to remember the more than 250,000 people who ultimately died from the blast.
"Even to those who managed to survive, it was hell where they envied the dead," Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba told the crowd, describing scenes from the bombing such as charred faces and torn clothes.
In a speech followed by the release of 1,000 white doves into the sky, Akiba singled out the United States for failing to halt nuclear proliferation.