By IndiaTomorrow.net,
London, 12 Dec 2015: A protest demonstration was held on Friday in London against the Japan-India nuclear agreement. Members of South Asia Solidarity Group (SASG), Japan Against Nuclear (JAN), and Kick Nuclear groups protested against the nuclear agreement. They demanded the scrapping of the impending Japan-India Nuclear Agreement and the creation of a nuclear free zone in South Asia.
Slogans like ‘No more Fukushimas! No more Chernobyls! Scrap the Nuclear Deal!’ and ‘Shinzo Abe, Narendra Modi, Scrap the Nuclear Deal!’ rang out across the posh West End neighbourhood.
Part of the protest was a short theatrical skit, in which protesters in masks played out the politics behind the deal.
The speakers talked about people’s movements in India as well as Japan against nuclear power. It was these movements, in Jaitapur, Koodankulam and Mithi Virdi, in India for example, which had inspired this international protest against the Nuclear Deal.
Speakers from Japan Against Nuclear spoke of the horrors of the Fukushima disaster and its continuing toxic fallout which is affecting not only Japan but much of the Pacific even five years after the Fukushima disaster.
A petition to Shinzo Abe was handed in to the Japanese Ambassador. The petition has also been launched online.
