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RINJ Foundation Condemns Remarks of Japanese Politician
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THE RINJ FOUNDATION
MEDIA RELEASE - JUNE 16 2013
The RINJ Foundation has been campaigning to encourage the severe
punishment as war crimes any act of sexual assault against women and
children in war zones.
From The RINJ Foundation constitution:
"6. Assist and encourage a new United Nations effort to end the use of
rape as a weapon of war.
7. As an NGO (Non-Government Organization) to assist the United Nations
efforts of monitoring and investigation of reports of the rape of
persons in regions of conflict or war and to assist agencies bring
support to victims and (through accurate and impartial evidence
gathering by volunteers and paid workers) bring justice to
perpetrators."
Owing largely to recent remarks from a Japanese politician who aspires
to national leadership status, The RINJ Foundation's attention has been
drawn to Japan's wartime history.
Many thousands of Asian women and children kidnapped by Japanese in WWII
became sex slaves for the Japanese military.
"Actually the atrocities committed were unspeakable but we are focused
on the issue of rape in war zones and the brutality to non-combatant
women and children," said The RINJ Foundation's Executive Director,
Micheal O'Brien.
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The sex-slave victims of Japan in WWII, endured torturous hardships,
human indignity and atrocities that killed them or ruined their future
lives. There were no unscathed survivors among these children and women.
Diseases among the living survivors prevented future childbirth and
scarred these women for life. Some may still be alive. Not many would
have heard Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto say that what happened to them was
justified.
Recently Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto prompted outrage at home and abroad
by suggesting in May 2013 that battle-stressed soldiers during World War
II needed the services of up to 200,000 sex slaves from Korea, China,
the Philippines and elsewhere.
At least one Japanese official repudiated the remarks of Hashimoto who
is the leader of the national Japan Restoration Party.
The RINJ Foundation condemns this conduct and seeks serious penalties
from within the United Nations for any elected or appointed official
responsible for public policy in any country who makes public statements
that encourage the use of rape and child molestation as a weapon or
tactic of war.
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October 14, 2011
October 24, 2011
October 25, 2011
October 27, 2011
November 4, 2011
November 9, 2011
November 13, 2011
November 24, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 6 Warning
December 11, 2011
December 25, 2011
January 11, 2012
January 12, 2012 - WS
January 12, 2012 -RINJ.org
January 18, 2012
January 21, 2012
January 27, 2012
March 8, 2012
March 8, 2012
March 24, 2012
March 30, 2012
July 14, 2012
August 5 2012
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