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(回答先: 麻生外務大臣とマッケイ加外相との電話会談について（外務省HP） 投稿者 kamenoko 日時 2007 年 4 月 02 日 23:23:24)
NDP fights for Japanese comfort women
Tue 27 Mar 2007
MPs push for formal apology and compensation from Japanese PM
OTTAWA – The Harper government should take a stand on human rights and denounce the Japanese prime minister’s attempt to deny the forced prostitution endured by South Korean, Chinese and Filipino women during the Second World War. NDP MPs Wayne Marston and Dawn Black are calling on Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay to act in accordance with the principles of human rights that ordinary Canadians believe in.
“Prime Minister Abe must be pressured to formally apologize and to institute a program to compensate the estimated 50,000 to 200,000 women who were forced to serve in military brothels during WWII,” said NDP Human Rights Critic Wayne Marston (Hamilton East – Stoney Creek).
“I was pleased that my motion at the sub-committee on International Human Rights requesting our government urge the Japanese government to formally apologize and compensate comfort women passed.”
In the past, individuals and corporations in Japan have stepped forward to offer compensation through the Asian Women’s Fund (AWF). Only 285 of thousands of comfort women were able to apply before the AWF ended in 2005. The Japanese government has recognized these war crimes in the past, but no formal apology or redress has been delivered.
“Crimes against women are a terrible consequence of war and must be treated as crimes against humanity,” said NDP Defence Critic Dawn Black. (New Westminster-Coquitlam). “Forced slavery was a degradation of women and a degradation of other cultures. The women who suffered deserve acknowledgement and compensation.”
“History denied is justice denied, and Prime Minister Abe’s apology in parliament on Monday is only the first step in what must be a formal acknowledgement of the injustices suffered by these women,” said Dawn Black. “The Canadian government finally acted to apologize for the Chinese head tax last year. Now we should use our influence in the world to right the historic wrong done to Asian women during the last world war.”
- 【空耳リンク】参考：カナダ政府 日系人への謝罪と補償 kamenoko 2007/4/03 02:06:43
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