Unsettled Sexual Slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army
The
1282nd Wednesday meeting was held in front of the old Japanese embassy
in Seoul on May 10 under the sponsorship of the Korean Council for the
Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan.
Han
Kook-yeom, co-representative of the Korean Council for the Women
Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan introduced Kim Bok-dong
(aged 91) and Gil Won-ok (aged 89) who took part in the meeting.
Saying
that south Korea-Japan agreement on comfort women is the first issue to
be rooted out, the co-representative strongly urged new government to
abolish the agreement inked with Japan.
The
co-representative demanded the repeal of south Korea-Japan agreement,
disbandment of the foundation for reconciliation and recovery, return of
one billion yen, official apology and legal indemnity from the Japanese
government.
Pupils from secondary and high schools took part in the meeting with the ex-comfort women.
The
conservative authorities did not made public even a white paper
censuring sexual slavery committed by the Japanese army and issued in
the form of a “study report” made by a civic body, the authorities
failed to utter even a word of the abrogation of agreement, far from
reproaching Japan that denies to write a letter of apology to the
victims and asserts one billion yen it remitted to the ex-comfort women
is not compensation, the vernacular paper Hangyereh described on May 4.
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