His Holiness the Dalai Lama will attend an international peace symposium in Hiroshima in Japan. At the summit to be held in early November, the Dalai Lama will be joined by fellow Nobel peace laureates Desmond Tutu of South Africa and Betty Williams of Northern Ireland at the symposium where they will convey messages of peace from Hiroshima, a city devastated by an atomic bomb in 1945, Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun Daily reported July 23.
The organiser of the symposium, Hiroshima-based NGO called Peacebuilders’ Company has also sent invitations to young business leaders in the city in ” a new step forward to achieve world peace by having the top activists of peace movements join us,” the report quoted a spokesman for the NGO as saying.
During his 1995 visit to Hiroshima, the Dalai Lama had written a message in the visitor’s book at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum saying, “It is a duty of all humans to abolish this weapon with unimaginable destructive power from the ground of this planet.”
Tutu, an Anglican archbishop, also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. of South Africa, led the movement against apartheid and was awarded the prize in 1984. Williams, a protestant leader in Northern Ireland, became a laureate in 1976 for her role in the peace accord.
