[Editorial] End of hard lives
2011-01-17 17:30
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Last year, which marked a century since Japan’s annexation of the Joseon Kingdom, 10 former comfort women passed away. Because of their advanced ages, the number of surviving women will rapidly be reduced while there is little hope that they will be able to fulfill their ardent wishes ― the Japanese government’s admission of guilt on the state level.
The old women from the government-arranged shelter, the House of Sharing, and some others from provinces have held their weekly demonstrations in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to urge the Tokyo government to end its silence and make sincere apology and compensation. Young activists join them in the Wednesday rallies, which they say will continue until Japan changes its attitude and until the last comfort woman dies.
When Japan offered compensation in the name of a private foundation in 1995, the then administration of President Kim Young-sam rejected it and took relief measures for the unfortunate women. Various records revealed as many as 200,000 young girls were mobilized from across Korea from the late 1930s and were sent to war zones in Asia or some factories in Japan.
In wars, armies kill civilians but there was no known precedent of any military systematically operating brothels with women taken from a colony. Japan simply cannot recognize and accept these most shameful deeds in its history. But it cannot extricate itself from the state-level responsibility for the inhumanity by just denying it.
Ten or 20 years from now, there may no longer be a witness to testify the crime. Yet the souls of the victims would still be waiting for words of conscience from the authorities in Tokyo.
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The ruling Grand National Party yesterday zeroed in on chief justice Lee Yong-hoon as it upped the ante in a dispute over controversial court rulings.
The conservative GNP called on the Supreme Court head to take responsibility for the controversy surrounding "slanted" rulings.
The party said it will officially demand he dissolve a private association of young, progressive-minded justices who are involved in the court decisions in question.
Lee struck back, telling reporters, "I will firmly safeguard the independence of judiciary."
Lee had kept silent in the face of one of the widest-reaching and fiercest political disputes to engulf the judicial institution. Lee was appointed by former President Roh Moo-hyun in September 2005 for a six-year term.
The GNP and conservatives blamed him for "leftist tendencies" among young justices and a series of "politically biased" rulings.
Lee had kept silent in the face of one of the widest-reaching and fiercest political disputes to engulf the judicial institution. Lee was appointed by former President Roh Moo-hyun in September 2005 for a six-year term.
The GNP and conservatives blamed him for "leftist tendencies" among young justices and a series of "politically biased" rulings.
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