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Movement awarded for ‘demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again’.

Nihon Hidankyo, the Japanese atomic bomb survivors’ group, has won the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize “for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons”.

The group received the honour “for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again”, said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, awarding the prize on Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

Frydnes harked to the upcoming 80th anniversary of the dropping of two nuclear bombs by the United States on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945, which killed an estimated 120,000 people.

The committee said it wanted to “honour all atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace”.

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