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Death of a former Japanese military sexual slavery

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End war and end military sexual slavery!



"`I was beaten almost to death and I had to serve 40 men every day. I returned to my country after walking for 38 days,' Kim testified of the horrors of being a comfort woman during a hearing hosted by then-US Rep. Mike Honda in February 2007. Following her testimony, the US Congress passed a resolution urging Japan to admit its wrongdoings and apologize to the victims¡¦.There were originally 238 victims of sex slavery by Japanese soldiers registered with the government. Only 37 are still alive, all of whom are aged over 85. This year alone, three victims died."

 

Dear Friend,

Kim Kun-ja, the first Korean woman who testified in the Congress of United States in 2007 of the horrors of ¡°comfort women¡± (military sex slavery for Japanese Imperial Army during WWII), passed away. She endured and survived Japanese brutal military sexual slavery for 3 years; she didn't die as a despondent and helpless victim but passed away as a woman of remarkable courage and compassion leader. Kim's strong spirit will be an inspiration to many girls and women in the world today who are experiencing war, sexual slavery, and discrimination! (Many thanks to the former US Rep. Mike Honda and the United States Congress that passed a resolution on dignity for former military sexual slavery!)

 

Profile in Courage: Kim Kun-ja (1926-2017)--from a former military sex slave to a courageous survivor 

 

1. A Korean girl under the brutal Japanese colonization (1910-1945)

 

¡¤              Born in 1926 in Gangwon, Korea

¡¤              1943: 17-year-old Korean girl taken to northern China

¡¤              August 15, 1945:  Japan was defeated, WWII ended, Korea was liberated from Japan, and Kim walked for 38 days to home, Korea 

2. Courageous Korean woman came out publicly about Japan¡¯s military sex slavery

¡¤              1991: the first Korean ¡°comfort woman¡± came out publicly about Japan¡¯s military sex slavery

¡¤              1998: Kim moved to the ¡°House of Sharing¡±

¡¤              2007: Kim testified of the ¡°horrors of military sex slavery during a hearing posted by then-US Rep. Mike Honda. The United States Congress passed a resolution urging Japan to admit its wrongdoings and apologize to the victims.¡±

3. From a victim to an inspirational leader--known as a woman with her ¡°Ph.D. in Giving¡±

¡¤              Donated $100,000 ($50,000 from her life-time saving and $50,000 from Korean government¡¯s matching fund) to build ¡°Sharing House¡± for survivors of former military sex slaves. 690 Koreans contributed in total $800,000 for ¡°Sharing House¡±.

¡¤              ¡°Don¡¯t spend more than $5000 for my funeral.  Please spend money taking care of survivors of military sex slaves¡± –Kim Kun-ja

Selected References: ¡°Justice for Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery!¡±

 

1. Zoom in Korea. Veterans For Peace Stand in Solidarity with Comfort Women Survivors. ¡°Justice for Survivors of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery!¡± https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCfVgvI8DFI

 

2. The New York Times. Girls in Japan¡¯s War Brothels. Dr. MARGARET D. STETZ

To the Editor:

¡°Apology, if Not Closure, for ¡®Comfort Women¡¯ ¡± (front page, Dec. 29) describes an agreement meant to settle the dispute over the ¡°Korean women¡± who were ¡°lured or coerced to work in brothels¡± for Japanese soldiers during World War II.  As survivors have testified, many targets of this brutal system of sexual slavery were not ¡°women,¡± but girls of 13 or 14. Many had not even begun menstruating when they were shipped as human cargo to battlefronts across Asia and subjected to daily rape.  These were not only war crimes, but crimes of child sex trafficking. Until they are represented as such in textbooks in Japan — and in news articles in the West — there is no true justice for these victims. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/01/opinion/girls-in-japans-war-brothels.html?_r=0

 

3. United Nations. Economic and Social Council. Commission on Human Rights

Report of the Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Radhika Coomaraswamy, in accordance with Commission on Human Rights resolution 1994/45 Report on the mission to the Democratic People¡¯s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea and Japan on the issue of military sexual slavery in wartime¡¦ In the first instance, it was argued that the forcible recruitment of 200,000 Korean women as military sexual slaves, their severe sexual assault and the killing of most of them in the aftermath should be considered a crime against humanity. Furthermore, as the annexation of the Korean peninsula by Japan is considered not to have been attained through legal means 12/ and the Japanese presence on the Korean peninsula is considered to have constituted a state of military occupation, the forcible recruitment of Korean women as "comfort women" should also be considered a crime under international humanitarian law, since these crimes were committed against civilians in an occupied area. Secondly, it was contended that the establishment of a "comfort women" scheme, and in particular the forcible recruitment and coercion into prostitution, is contrary to the 1921 International Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children, which Japan had ratified in 1925.

http://www.awf.or.jp/pdf/h0004.pdf

 

4. The Telegraph. The horrific story of Korea's 'comfort women' - forced to be sex slaves during World War Two

"It was like a slaughter house there - not for animals, but for humans. Outrageous things were done."  In the comfort stations, the women and girls (the majority aged between 13 and 16) were used as sex slaves. They had to service between 30 and 40 soldiers a day.  It is no surprise that many women died during - or as a result of - their treatment. Many reported catching diseases such as syphilis, or being forced to have abortions. One saidshe had her uterus removed by Japanese military doctors. The atrocities only ended when Japan were defeated in the Second World War. Of the surviving women, some went on to marry and have families, while others faced the stigma of having been raped and assaulted. All had to live with their horrific memories. Today only 46 South Korean former comfort women are still alive. They are in their 80s and 90s, and several of them live together in the House of Sharing in Gwangju city in Gyeonggi province. It is a home for living comfort women, and is next door to a museum about their experiences. Many of these women will not live much longer - but they hope that their stories will. As Kim Hak Soon, one of the first Korean comfort women to testify about her experiences, said: ¡°We must record these things that were forced upon us.¡±

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/the-horrific-story-of-koreas-comfort-women---forced-to-be-sex-sl/

  

5. CNN. Will Ripley, A lifetime later, a Korean 'comfort woman' still seeks redress

Kim estimates each Japanese soldier took around three minutes. They usually kept their boots and leg wraps on, hurriedly finishing so the next solider could have his turn. Kim says it was dehumanizing, exhausting, and often excruciating. "When it was over, I couldn't even get up. It went on for such a long time. By the time the sun went down, I couldn't use my lower body at all. After the first year, we were just like machines," she says. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/29/asia/will-ripley-japan-comfort-women/

 

6. The Guardian. Wartime sex slave urges Japanese PM to apologise during US trip

Kim Bok-dong, a South Korean who was 14 when she was lured into sexual slavery with the promise of a job in a clothes factory, said Abe should ¡°recognise the mistakes of the past¡± and acknowledge that up to 200,000 mainly Korean women were forced to work in Japanese military brothels before and during the second world war.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/24/wartime-sex-slave-japan-pm-shinzo-abe-apologise-us-trip

 

7.The Guardian. Second world war 'sex slaves' to testify before Congress

Mr Honda said: "The urgency is based upon the age of the women who were victims of the policy. Every year these ladies get older and older and they start to die off." Three previous resolutions failed to get beyond the committee stage.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/feb/09/japan.secondworldwar

 

8. Counterpunch. K.J.Noh. South Korea¡¯s Betrayal of the ¡°Comfort Women¡±

Japan... upgraded its military agreements with the US to allow it offensive capacity anywhere in the world¡¦.Abe subscribes to ultra-right, nationalist, militarist ideologies that dream of Imperial restoration, with a 500 million dollar budget for white-washing its history, and politicians and diplomats rushing forth to badger and intimidate anyone who challenges Japanese dreams of imperial glory past, present, or future.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/12/31/south-koreas-betrayal-of-the-comfort-women/

 

9. Korean Movie ¡°Spirits¡¯ Homecoming¡± (2016) English Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14l4l9GNrss

 

10. BBC. `Comfort women¡¯: Researchers claim first known film

Filmed by US troops in China, the clip was found by government-funded researchers at Seoul National University in US archives. The 18-second clip shows several women lined up talking to a Chinese soldier.  South Korean activists estimate 200,000 women were forced into brothels for Japan's military. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-40552812

 

11. ¡°Pope Francis Gave Me a Butterfly Badge.. Everything Will Be All Right.¡±

[Pope] Francis greeted each of the seven women, most in wheelchairs, at the front of Seoul¡¯s main cathedral Monday at the start of his final Mass for peace and reconciliation on the Korean peninsula.

https://justiceforcomfortwomen.org/tag/pope-francis/

 

12. Korea Herald. Another victim of Japan¡®s sexual slavery dies

¡°I was beaten almost to death and I had to serve 40 men every day. I returned to my country after walking for 38 days,¡± Kim testified of the horrors of being a comfort woman during a hearing hosted by then-US Rep. Mike Honda in February 2007. Following her testimony, the US Congress passed a resolution urging Japan to admit its wrongdoings and apologize to the victims¡¦.There were originally 238 victims of sex slavery by Japanese soldiers registered with the government. Only 37 are still alive, all of whom are aged over 85. This year alone, three victims died.  http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170723000148

 

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