The article I chose was titled
"Anger of wartime sex slaves haunts Japan and South Korea" and it was
written by Justin McCurry on October 18, 2012.
This text called my attention because
I think that war victims never receive a direct satisfaction after all the
horrors they live. Usually the countries make postwar peace treaties that are
may be an economical solution for the nations, but the people doesn’t get
anything but traumas and pain they will never forget. It is connected
with my future career because I’ve always been worried about women and their
(our) legal protection. I think even in XXI century we are discriminated in
many ways, so the abuses to woman during the war and sexual exploitation are
topics I’m interested.
The abuses started in 1943, When the
Japanese forces invaded South Korea. A lot of women were sent to China and were
forced to have sex with the soldiers. Along with being sex slaves, they were
beated. But, afraid of ostracism in
their own countries, Asian women kept silence and didn’t talk about it until 1991,
several years after the abuses. Kim
Hak-soon, a South Korean, was the first one that dared to reveal the truth.
After her, more women could start talking. They are still waiting for an
official apology or compensation from Japan.
South Korea is still asking for compensation.
They argument that there is legal responsibility that hasn’t been settled, and
those war crimes were crime against humanity. But Japan refuses to pay
compensations directly, because they say all claims were settled by postwar
peace treaties. One of their leader even claimed that there was no evidence of
the sexual slavery. In 1997, Yohei Kono, then the chief cabinet secretary, acknowledged that
the Japanese military had forced Asian women into sexual slavery. He apologized
for all the physical and psychological pain and damage caused to the woman.
But that apologizes
are no well received and women are still waiting for an official apology and
compensation directly from the Japanese government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/forced-prostitution-wartime-japan-korea
This is a very interesting article, good choice. I think there has been an evolution in human rights, and women has been included in the catalogue of new laws. The compensations for tort will be always polemic. The oriental paradigm is far different though.
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