China's Comfort Women
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On Oct. 12th a 90-year-old woman Yin Yulin, from Zheng
jia Zhai, Yangqu County, Taiyuan city, Shanxi Province, died.
The old woman's death was regrettable as she was arrested by the
Japanese army to act as comfort women during Japan invading China.
From 1992, she and other fifteen female victims come forward
to prosecute the Japanese government.
They accused the Japanese army of bestial crimes.
However, the Japanese court gave no compensation.
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stood by as its own
Citizens made efforts to pursue justice.
In the spring of 1942, the Japanese officers and soldiers broke
into Yin Yulin's home in the Yu country, Shanxi provinces.
They arrested her and her sister together.
The two sisters were gang-raped by the Japanese soldiers.
The two sisters and other women who were caught were often
forced with bayonets to the towers to act as comfort women.
This lasted more than a year.
Known as the first person of Chinese Folk comfort women
investigation Zhang Shuangbing told NTDTV that he had surveyed more than 100 Chinese comfort women.
From 1992, in 10 years, there were three batches of 16 female
victims prosecuting the Japanese government in Japanese courts.
Through three courts, the case was sentenced in 2007.
Teacher in Shanxi Province, Zhang Shuangbing: In the end,
the Japanese court's decision admitted that the comfort women stories were true,
but offered no compensation. We didn't think
it was a proper judgment, while being a barbaric judgment.
It not only can't convince the victims and their families,
but also can't convince the suffering people.
The Japanese courts pronounced no compensation
because statutory limitations had passed.
The individual weren't allowed prosecuting the government.
Zhang Shuangbing: On the statute of limitations-because
after the war, China and Japan were in a Cold War---
they did not set up diplomatic relations
so there are no conditions to prosecute.
Also, as private citizens can't prosecute the government, we
think, since the Japanese government commanded the invasion of China,
why your government can bully people, but the people
are not allowed to prosecute Japanese government?
Two Japanese non-governmental organizations, Japan Shanxi
Identify Committee and Japan Photo Exhibition Committee sent a telegram of condolences to Yin Yulin.
They said: Aunt's wish to get 'the Japanese government's
formal apology and compensation, to restore the reputation'
before her death failed to achieve this and we feel very guilty.
After Yin Yulin death, in Shanxi, only six comfort women
living witnesses remained.
While comfort women are seeking Japanese government
compensation, the CCP remained silent.
They didn't make representations to the Japanese government.
The Chinese folk Diaoyu Islands Federation members Feng
Jinghua said he could not understand the practice of the CCP.
Diaoyu personage Feng Jinghua: Why does China not do
these things? We are also very puzzled, we are very depressed.
We also hope that the relevant state departments
pay attention to this matter.
The victims are involved very widely, once it is mentioned
Along with such issues as labor, the chemical weapons issue,
the comfort women issue, then some people might think
that it will destroy Sino-Japanese relations and Sino-Japanese friendship.
Feng Jinghua said that every year, Diaoyu personage visit
the old people, but their number decreased every year.
In their view, the CCP and the Japanese government
hope these people to die as soon as possible.
They regard those people as a burden, especially the CCP.
They are blindly waiting, watching them silently die. They have
no living benefits such as pension and medical relief, either.
Feng jinghua: When we denounced the Japanese,
we should reflect on our Chinese people ourselves.
Why have we Chinese victims lived so miserably?
Why have Japanese victimizer lived so well?
I also have seen the Japanese soldiers, including victims
of the Hiroshima bomb; the Japanese government took good care of them.
But how are our Chinese victims treated? These old people
have no health insurance, no other insurance.
This is the result of our current social situation in China.
By contrast, on Oct.1st, for the first time, the South Korean
government proposed the issue of comfort women in the keynote speech of the General Assembly of the U.N.
On Aug. 30th the Korean Constitutional Tribunal claimed
judgment on the issue of former comfort women prosecuting the government for compensation.
The judgment pronounced that the Government violated
relevant provisions of the Constitution and
no serious negotiations with the Japanese government
in dealing with the former comfort women.
Subsequently, the South Korean government asked
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Taiyuan, Jinyang) is the capital and largest city of North China's Shanxi province. It is one of the main manufacturing bases of China. Throughout its long history, Taiyuan was the capital or provisional capital of many dynasties in China, hence the name Longcheng.
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