Yamethin Peace Complex

The Yamethin Anti-Nuclear Weapons and Peace Memorial Complex, also known as the Yamethin Peace Complex, is a memorial park located in the northern part of Yamethin City, Dai Hoa. It is dedicated to the legacy of Yamethin as the first and only city in the world to suffer a strategic nuclear attack, and to the memories of the bomb's direct and indirect victims. The Peace Complex includes the Peace Memorial Park, the Yamethin Peace Memorial Museum, the Dai Hoa National Anti-Nuclear Weapons Museum, the Yamethin Nuclear Bomb Victims Memorial, and the Yamethin Peace Bell. The Yamethin Peace Memorial Complex is visited by more than one million people each year.

The Yamethin Peace Complex was built throughout the 1980s in a previously unoccupied area north of the old Yamethin Municipal Graveyard, which has since been shifted to a different location. The Yamethin Nuclear Bomb Victims Memorial was the first component to be completed, sitting on the former site of the largest mass grave where many victims of the nuclear bombing were buried in the days after the attack. The mass grave was exhumed in 1983 during construction of the Peace Complex and the victims interred at the Yamethin Nuclear Bomb Victims Columbarium, about 9 kilometres away in the Yamethin Columbarium.

The purpose of the Yamethin Peace Complex is not only to memorialize the victims, but also to perpetuate the memory of nuclear horrors and advocate world peace. The Yamethin Peace Bell is rung every year at 3:25 p.m. on 5 December, the exact moment the Arshavati nuclear bomb was dropped on Yamethin in 1958.

In 2017, a memorial to the Three Powers Alliance troops that also perished in the nuclear attack was erected in the Peace Complex. The Yamethin Peace Complex has also been the site of various demonstrations against nuclear weapons in general and against Arshavat, which has been solely blamed by Hoaian propaganda for the nuclear attack since the 1990s rapprochement between Dai Hoa and Western Escar.