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Atomic bomb survivors want Obama to apologize during visit to Hiroshima


  A group representing Japanese survivors of U.S. atomic bombings has asked President Barack Obama to hear their stories and apologize when he visit Hiroshima.
  Two leaders of the Tokyo-based nationwide group said Thursday many survivors want an apology though they avoided an outright demand for one.
  U.S. atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of the World War II left killed more than 200,000 people and nearly destroyed the cities.
  Obama will visit Hiroshima on May 27 after the Group of Seven summit in central Japan, becoming the first serving American president to do so.
  Washington said he won’t apologize and a meeting with survivors is unlikely. That apparently prompted the survivors to remind him of their true feelings and expectations for his commitment to a nuclear-free world.

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