ロシア連邦のウクライナ侵攻に対する抗議文(英訳文)

Protest against the Russian Federation’s Invasion of Ukraine

                                                            May 29, 2022

 

To: His Excellency Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin

President of the Russian Federation

 

We feel tremendous anger and deep sadness over the brutalities of your invasion of Ukraine, and call for an immediate ceasefire.

Humanity experienced severe human and material damage in World War I and World War II, and learned from them the horrors that wars bring. This led to the establishment of the League of Nations and the United Nations as international peace organizations.

Therefore the international community is appalled that you, one of the permanent members of the United Nations, are now waging war. If members of the international community succumb to the temptation to take the territory of the other countries by force, this beautiful Earth that we all share will turn into a brutal, dog-eat-dog world.

But dogs and other animals do not form factions that conspire to wage war, nor do they manufacture weapons with which to massacre their enemies. As we know from World War II, when human beings use their abilities to carry out such destruction, the consequences are unspeakably monstrous.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, and especially after the withdrawal from Kyiv, images of the hideous conditions in villages and towns caught up in the battle have been distributed daily all over the world through the Internet, smartphones, and televisions. As people living in the same era, we cannot overlook the suffering of those who now lie buried under that blood-and tear-soaked ground. Nor can we ignore the despair, anger, and sorrow of the residents who were forced to leave their hometowns. In this age of information and images that is the 21st century, a vast quantity of documentation of these events will be left to future generations. The hideous brutalities that you have carried out in Ukraine will be etched permanently in the memory of the international community, and will continue to haunt Russians of goodwill at home and abroad in the future.

You experienced the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident during the Soviet era, which spread radioactive contamination throughout the Northern Hemisphere. We are therefore especially appalled by your attack on the nuclear power plants and nuclear facilities in Ukraine. Here in Japan, the only country in the world to undergo nuclear bombing, the survivors of that attack have moved beyond hard feelings toward the United States, which dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Today their fervent desire is only that humans will never repeat such a tragedy. Through grassroots movements, nuclear survivors travel around the world telling people about their own terrible and painful experiences.

As part of this movement, the Barefoot Gen Promotion Group has been distributing the graphic novel “Barefoot Gen” both domestically and internationally. This work vividly describes the reality of the atomic bomb and makes clear the inhumanity of nuclear weapons. Your own nuclear threats only add to our sense of crisis. We can only hope that the efforts of past nuclear victims to tell the truth about nuclear war can help prevent it from occurring again. 

With every moment that the battle in Ukraine continues, many more precious lives will be lost. The soldiers of both armies fighting for their lives. People who lost their precious ones in missile attacks, or from bullets, and were injured themselves. Mothers fleeing with dead children in their arms. Little boys and girls tearfully separated from their parents. During the past three months the people in Ukraine have had their hometowns destroyed, have been robbed of their everyday lives, and have had to become refugees. Can you not begin to imagine their suffering? The news informs us that a great number of soldiers of both Ukraine and Russia are dead and injured. We demand that you put an immediate stop to these irrational, vain hostilities.

( NPO) Barefoot Gen Promotion Group

 

 

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