International Day of Innocent Children Victims of 2024 is on Tuesday, June 4, 2024: A Con to having an international day of remembrance for all victims of Nuclear Warfare?

Tuesday, June 4, 2024 is International Day of Innocent Children Victims of 2024. The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance each 4 June.

The International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression is a United Nations observance each 4 June.

For your debate, you could use the following points to argue against adding a day of remembrance for victims of Nuclear Warfare.

1. Master Chief is right -- why declare an *international* day for an incident that involved victims from only one country?

2. The victims are remembered every year in Japan and around the world on the anniversary of each bombing (Aug. 6 & 9.) Since there already are two days when the victims are remembered, why do we need another day of remembrance?

3. Adding more days to commemorate victims will just fill up the calendar. When every day is a victim remembrance day, the idea of a "day of remembrance" becomes diluted, because there are too many of them. There should be one day to commemorate all victims of war, and leave it at that.

For example, there is already an international day for remembering Victims of the Holocaust (Jan. 27), but there is no U.N. official day of rememberance for over a million victims of the Armenian Genocide (less than 100 years ago), and nearly a million victims of the Rwandan Genocide in the 1990s. If you add days for these to the calendar, then families of victims of smaller, but major incidents will want an official day of remembrance as well (the slippery slope argument.) Eventually, every day will be a remembrance day.

4. It could be argued that the Japanese victims of nuclear warfare were collateral damage resulting from war, the same way civilians killed in the Dresden bombing died in horrific manner--all three bombings were part of a strategy to end a war. Instead of a day to commemorate nuclear warfare victims, and another day to commemorate carpet bombing victims, and another for chemical weapon victims, perhaps the U.N. could simply add an International Day of Remembrance of Civilian Victims of War, to remember civilians killed in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia, and other war zones.

5. Victims of nuclear warfare are already remembered on other international commemoration days, such as "International Disarmament Week", which is concerned with preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The International Day of Peace could also be expanded as a day to remember all victims of armed conflict.

Here's a list that shows how the calendar is already filling up with "International Days" regarding war and its victims:

* Jan. 27 - International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust

* March 24 - International Day for the Right to the Truth concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims.

* June 4 - International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression

* June 20 - World Refugee Day

* June 26 - International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

* Aug. 30 - International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances

* Sept. 21 - International Day of Peace

* Oct. 24-30 - Disarmament Week

* Nov. 29 - International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

Why Do The Call April 1 April Fools Day?

Unlike most of the other nonfoolish holidays, the history of April Fool's Day, sometimes called All Fool's Day, is not totally clear. There really wasn't a "first April Fool's Day" that can be pinpointed on the calendar. Some believe it sort of evolved simultaneously in several cultures at the same time, from celebrations involving the first day of spring.

The closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in France. Prior to that year, the new year was celebrated for eight days, beginning on March 25. The celebration culminated on April 1. With the reform of the calendar under Charles IX, the Gregorian Calendar was introduced, and New Year's Day was moved to January 1.

However, communications being what they were in the days when news traveled by foot, many people did not receive the news for several years. Others, the more obstinate crowd, refused to accept the new calendar and continued to celebrate the new year on April 1. These backward folk were labeled as "fools" by the general populace. They were subject to some ridicule, and were often sent on "fools errands" or were made the butt of other practical jokes.

This harassment evolved, over time, into a tradition of prank-playing on the first day of April. The tradition eventually spread to England and Scotland in the eighteenth century. It was later introduced to the American colonies of both the English and French. April Fool's Day thus developed into an international fun fest, so to speak, with different nationalities specializing in their own brand of humor at the expense of their friends and families.

In Scotland, for example, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick me" sign can be traced to this observance.

Mexico's counterpart of April Fool's Day is actually observed on December 28. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by King Herod. It eventually evolved into a lighter commemoration involving pranks and trickery.

Pranks performed on April Fool's Day range from the simple, (such as saying, "Your shoe's untied!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate's alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, "April Fool!"

Practical jokes are a common practice on April Fool's Day. Sometimes, elaborate practical jokes are played on friends or relatives that last the entire day. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fool's Day was a fairly detailed documentary about "spaghetti farmers" and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees.

April Fool's Day is a "for-fun-only" observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their "significant other" out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It's simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool!

Is Holocaust Remembrance Day an insult to victims of Jewish racism, extremism and genocidalism?

they've used this to their advantage to attack, rob blind & kill innocent men, women & children for TOO, TOO LONG, NOW.

they need to learn from their own history!