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- Cultural heritage in Goyang
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Dokdo, special law for victim of Comfort Women, and Silicon Valley are the issues to be solved with all of our attention.
2017-07-31
Necessity for enacting the date for commemorating victims from Comfort Women and education for human rights and history
International society or international human right committee have regulated the issue of ‘sexual harassment’ victims forced to serve Japanese soldiers as a crime of war and been asking Japan to apologize officially. Issues of victims of ‘sexual harassment’ forced to serve Japanese soldiers has been revealed to the entire world as it was issued by the women community in Korea in the 1980s and also actively participated by women communities and human right groups in all over the world. Movement for solving an issue of victims of ‘sexual harassment’ of Japanese soldiers was an international civil movement deployed by cooperation beyond the social classes, genders, and nationalities. It is to prevent the re-occurrence of infringement on human rights on women by clarifying who to blame for the crime of war and penalizing them.
The issue of ‘sexual harassment’ forced by Japanese soldiers as the most devastated crime of war in the history of mankind shall be dealt with by Japan with official apology and solved in the following principles
First of all, the issue shall be solved when victims are alive. Japanese government has denied the existence of ‘Comfort Women’ back in the 1980s. As the specific documents of Japanese soldiers along with the testimony of victims and participatory soldiers, Japan ended up acknowledging the fact that Comfort Women existed. However, they are still denying the involvement and forceful mobilization of Comfort Women. Secondly, distorted human rights shall be restored while penalizing the crime of war. What is important besides the infringement of human rights of victims is how the history is being distorted and hidden. Restoring the history is required for the human rights of victims.
Third, it is required to reinforce history and human right education. Issue of ‘sex slavery’ by Japanese soldiers is the sad history of women as well as the painful memory of Korea starting from when Korea was dominated by Japan. It is required to setup a day for praying for victims in the nation and provide education for human rights and history.
Fourth, it is required to operate an international advisory group for consultation with Japan. Victims have been taking a leading role through various activities. However, there was no solution, and Japan strongly denied ‘sex slavery.’ Victims do not have much time. It is required to create a third international human right organization that can serve Korean government, Japanese government, and victims and start negotiating with Japan. Fifth, it is required to proceed joint investigation and make a textbook commonly used by Korea and Japan.
There has not been joint investigation by Korean and Japanese government so far. The number of victims is estimated to be about 2 hundred thousand according to the testimony of victims and limited resources at that time. It is required to open the data from Japanese government-general of Korea possessed by Japanese government and reveal who were forced to the Japanese military camp and how they were forcefully taken in terms of the exact number of victim.
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