From the forced recruitment to the "comfort women" Japanese human rights inferiority cannot be denied

Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, July 5th (International Observation) From the forced levy to the "comfort women" Japanese human rights inferiority cannot deny

Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Rui Sun Yiran Du Baiyu

The Korean government launched the civilian negotiation mechanism established on the 4th to solve the issue of the victims of the Japanese forced laborers during World War II. Korean society's attention to this problem again heated up again.

The relationship between Japan and South Korea has severely deteriorated due to the strong collections of laborers and "comfort women". Regarding Japan's trumping of crimes and unrefined regrets, South Korea's public opinion pointed out that Japan's infringement of human rights infringement cannot be denied, and the crime cannot be shown.

On August 14, 2017, "World Comfort Women Day", 51 bus 151, which is equipped with a "comfort woman" girl in Seoul, South Korea was put into operation. These buses were running until September 30 of the same year, and the running route passed through the Japanese Embassy in South Korea, located in Seoul. The designer said that he hopes to remind the people in this way not to forget history. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Qilin)

Refusal compensation for victims

During the colonial rule of Japan from 1910 to 1945, a large number of workers went to Japan to do hard work. According to statistics from Korean side, as many as 780,000 workers on the Korean Peninsula. These workers are often brought to Japan to work in Japan in a way to seduce, coercion, and suffer from non -human treatment. Many people are even tortured to death.

For example, in the South Korean workers' claims, the two female workers who were forced were only ten years old. They were deceived in Nagoya in Japan by the name of the above school and making money. They were slavered at the aircraft factory of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. In the end, one person died and one was severely burned.

For a long time, South Korea's victims and survivors have repeatedly issued a lawsuit to claim to Japan. The South Korean Court (Supreme Court) issued a final judgment on three claims lawsuits in 2018. It was determined that the "South Korea and Japan Request Rights Agreement" did not prevent the forced requisition of labor victims sued the enterprise and ordered the compensation of the plaintiff in the Japanese enterprises involved. In this regard, the Japanese side accused the Korean side of "violating international law", and even implemented economic retaliation on the South Korean side to regulate the important raw materials of some important raw materials for the semiconductor industry exported to South Korea. This triggered strong dissatisfaction from official to the folk, and also caused South Korea -Japan relations to fall into the bottom.

Japan not only refuses to compensate the victims, but also dilutes the historical facts of labor and decoration, and wraps some factories, mines and other workers with laborers and tears as cultural heritage, which makes all walks of Korea anger.

In 2015, Japan will pack 23 industrial sites including the infamous "warship island" to apply for the World Cultural Heritage Site for the "Meiji Industrial Revolution". The Korean side pointed out that these sites contain 7 facilities for the Japanese peninsula workers for the Korean Peninsula. Nearly 60,000 Korean Peninsula workers were forced to engage in non -human labor in these factories and mines. Many people were even abused to death. Japan's application plan.

The picture shows the "Warship Island" shot in Nagasaki, Japan on August 8, 2015. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ma Ping)

Faced with the opposition of the Korean side, the Japanese party promised to take follow -up measures to explain the historical facts of the laborers, including the establishment of an information center to introduce this history, and finally the legacy was successful. However, after the opening of the information center in 2020, people saw the data of the center of information distorted history and covering the truth, claiming that there was no slavery to foreign workers. The Japanese government's unbelievable move has triggered widespread criticism in Korean society.

In February of this year, the Japanese government's old trick was re -applied. Regardless of the repeated warning of the Korean side, it officially decided to recommend the application of the World Cultural Heritage in Zodu Jinshan, Zuodu City, Niigata County. Korean media disclosed that during World War II, in order to ensure the supply of war supplies, about 1,200 Korean Peninsula workers in Japan were engaged in brutal labor in this gold mine. Due to the harsh working environment and compressed, many workers later died of pneumoconiosis. The South Korean government protested that Japan's actions for Zodu Jinshan's legacy, but the Japanese side said that South Korea should be responsible for the deterioration of relations between the two countries.

Dilvert the crime of "comfort women"

On May 2nd, the "Justice Memory of Justice" of Korean civil society announced to the public that another "comfort woman" victim died. At this point, among the 240 victims of the "comfort women" registered in South Korea, there are only 11 of them.

The "comfort woman" is a serious anti -human crime with planning and organizing the implementation of the Japanese government and the army, and it is a brutal act for Japanese militarism to trample on human rights. According to official data from South Korea, during the period of Japanese colonial rule, 80,000 to 160,000 Korean Peninsula women were reduced to the "comfort women" of the Japanese army.

However, the Japanese government has repeatedly ignored this historical crime, refused to reflect on gratitude, and repeatedly tried to eliminate the truth and shirk responsibility.

In order to solve the problem of "comfort women" in "irreversible" and "final", the Japanese government reached an agreement with the South Korean government in December 2015 to acknowledge the "responsibility" on the issue of "comfort women". The healing foundation "invested 1 billion yen. However, the Japanese side claims that its capital contribution is only a "cooperative project" rather than "national compensation", and it does not show that its "responsibility" is legal or moral responsibility.

The agreement was widely opposed and criticized in South Korea, and the original "comfort woman" clearly stated that the agreement was "not recognized at all." South Korean public opinion generally believes that Japan may use this agreement as an excuse to shirk its responsibility. Some media even call this agreement "humiliation of modern Korean history" and "diplomatic tragedy". After Wen Zaiyin's government came to power, he announced the dissolution of the "reconciliation and healing foundation" in November 2018. On March 1, 2017, in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, the South Korean people raised their slogans at the rally and asked the Japanese government to apologize and abolish the "Korean and Japan Comfort Women Agreement". Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Li Xianghao)

In April last year, the Japanese cabinet decided to use the expressions such as "comfort women" and forced laborers. misunderstanding". Since then, the historical textbooks of multiple versions of Japan have revised the relevant expressions of "comfort women" based on this and have been approved by the Ministry of Culture of the Ministry of Culture.

Regarding the Japanese side's attempt to dilute the crimes of Japanese army and "whitewashing" Japanese human rights, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Korea pointed out that it is necessary for the Japanese side to adhere to the attitude of admitting mistakes on historical issues. Resolve the sincerity of historical issues.

South Korea's "Korean National Daily" pointed out that no matter how the Japanese government denies, forcing the "comfort women" is a crime of war against women, which can never be eluted. The historical truth cannot be covered, and Japan should bear legal responsibility for this. "South Korea also needs to be widely publicized so that people realize that this is a human rights issue that the international community should remember and solve it together."

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