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 The Korean Council |
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To: Mr. Shinzo Abe Japanese Prime Minister |
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Mr. Shinzo Abe Japanese Prime Minister
The requisition which demands a solution of the issue of the Military Sexual Slavery by Japan¡¡
In Seoul, Korea the 8th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan was held from this past May 19th to 21st. This international conference has been held since 1992, with the victims and supporting groups together who wish for a solution of the issue.¡¡Many people participated in this conference from North and South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, Philippines, Indonesia, Netherlands, and USA, Germany and Australia as well.
Participants of each country protested to the Prime Minister Abe¡¯s remark: "There was no compulsion." at the meeting table. The voices of them demanding the retraction of¡¡ Prime Minister Abe¡¯s remark and true solution were successive.
Since 1991, when the courageous testimonies by the victims of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan broke the long silence, we have shared their pain with survivors and the efforts to heal the bruise of their minds and bodies have been made. At the same time we requested of Japanese Government to accept the advice by international organizations such as United Nations which recommends Japanese Government should apologize and compensate. And in 2000 we held Women¡¯s International War Criminals Tribunal against Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. Through a large number of actions we have worked to settle this issue and for protecting women¡¯s rights, peace and justice.
Asia Women¡¯s Fund, which was established in 1995 by Japanese Government to evade its legal responsibility, was dissolved at the end of March of this year but¡¡this AWF policy can't be called as a solution of the issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan. A recovery from damage and of dignity of those women in Asia who were forced to be Sex Slaves is still left undone, after all.
Though Prime Minister Abe said, "I follow Kono¡¯s comment.",¡¡ an inconsistent remark has been repeated by him that "the Japanese military never forced but private traders did.".
Prime Minister Abe is enthusiastic about evading Japan¡¯s faults in the past and also has revised Fundamental Law of Education for the worse and is now promoting to amend for the worse too the peace constitution as symbol of democracy and fort¡¡keeping peaces.
Prime Minister Abe is rushing into the direction to build Japan again as a nation which goes to war.
We protest decidedly against such an attitude of Prime Minister Abe and Japanese Government. We demand strongly that Prime Minister Abe and Japanese Government listen carefully to victims¡¯ long-term callings,¡¡that Japanese Government accepts resolution 121 which was submitted by American Lower House assembly and that Japanese Government prepares urgently the right answer victims and international society are satisfied with. And we request the followings strong at the same time.
1. Withdrawal of Prime Minister Abe¡¯s remark which denies compulsion by army.
2. Opening to the public of all related documents which are now undisclosed.
3. Accept the advices by UN human rights committee recommended repeatedly to Japanese Government and establish legislative measures for truth investigations and compensation immediately.
4. The announcement of apology to those victims in clear and official form and sending the letter of apology for all victims.
All participants in the 8th Asian Solidarity Conference for the Issue of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan¡¡on May 21st 2007
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