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参考までに、比較的最近の琉球新報の社説。東京新聞はこのくらいの内容の社説を書けないのでしょうか。

●琉球新報 - 沖縄の新聞、地域のニュース
■「慰安婦」資料　軍の強制示す重い証言
http://ryukyushimpo.jp/news/storyid-213554-storytopic-11.html
2013年10月9日

　女性の人権を踏みにじる、旧日本軍によるおぞましい行為の詳細が、国立公文書館が市民団体に開示した資料で明るみになった。
　戦時中の１９４４年、インドネシアのジャワ島の捕虜収容所からオランダ人女性約３５人を強制連行し、日本兵相手の慰安婦とした罪を裁かれた旧日本軍の将校ら９人の裁判記録などが開示された。
　日本軍は組織的行為によって、収容中の女性を選んで４カ所の慰安所に連行し、脅迫して売春させた。資料には、日本兵の性のはけ口となることを強いた将校の生々しい証言がある。
　「婦女が収容所から出発するのも自由意思によるものではなく、○○（将校名）の要請により州の役人が連れ出した」「女たちは遊女屋に入るまで、どういう仕事をするのか聞かされていなかった」
　日本軍の関与を認めた河野洋平官房長官の談話（１９９３年）の根拠となった資料は５３０枚に上る。詳細が初めて明らかになった資料は、軍の強制を裏付ける信ぴょう性、迫真性に富んでいる。
　一方、被害に遭ったジャン・オハーンさんは２００８年にオーストラリアの大学でこう語った。
　「慰安婦は『日本軍性奴隷』の遠回しな表現だ。このような恐怖の中を生きた私は今でも悪夢を見る。私は売春宿で１回、結婚後も３回流産した。私の体はひどく壊れてしまっていたからだ」
　苦渋に満ちた体験談には、日本軍の罪深い所業が凝縮されている。オハーンさんらが、強制的に連行され、自由を奪われたまま、体を壊すまで日本兵の相手をさせられたとの証言を重く受け止めたい。
　日本国内では、官憲による暴行・脅迫を用いた連行の有無だけを挙げ、「強制性」がなかったと強調し、元慰安婦を傷付ける言説が繰り返し発せられている。
　だが、戦時の性暴力に厳しい国際世論は「強制性」を問題にしていない。仕事の内容を伝えず、女性を売春場所に押し込めただけで嫌悪感を呼び起こす。自分の娘が同じ境遇に追いやられたらどう思うかという市民感覚を基に、国際社会が慰安婦問題で日本へ険しい視線を送っていることを自覚せねばならない。
　河野談話が発表されてから２０年。軍の強制性を補強する資料が次々と発掘されている。河野談話の修正論者で知られている安倍晋三首相は、国際社会に挑戦する見直しはしないと自ら明言すべきときだ。

英文へ→[Editorial] Testimonies prove “comfort women” recruited by force


■[Editorial] Testimonies prove “comfort women” recruited by force
http://english.ryukyushimpo.jp/2013/10/18/12004/
October 9, 2013 Ryukyu Shimpo

Newly disclosed National Archives documents expose the details of hideous acts by the Imperial Japanese Army in trampling on the human rights of women. The documents include the judicial records of nine Japanese military officers and civilians convicted by a provisional military tribunal set up by the Netherlands in Jakarta in the former Dutch East Indies. In 1944, during the war, they took 35 Dutch women detained in a camp on Java Island in Indonesia by force to serve as so-called comfort women for Japanese soldiers. The National Archives disclosed the documents to a civic group.

The Japanese military selected the women at the camp and took them to four “comfort stations” where they were made to provide sex. The documents include vivid testimonies of the officers who forced the women to become objects for Japanese soldiers to vent their sexual frustrations on. Some officers said in their testimonies, “We asked the chief of the provincial police to select women at the camp for brothels,” “The women were brought out by provincial officials at the request of (an officer’s name),” and “The women were not told about the work they would be doing until they arrived at the brothels.”

The roughly 530 pages of documents include the background evidence used for then Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono’s statement in 1993. In the statement, Japan acknowledged and apologized for its military’s involvement in the recruitment of women into sexual servitude. The documents are sufficiently reliable to prove that the military forced women into sexual slavery.

Jan Ruff-O’Herne, a victim of the Japanese military, spoke at a university in Australia in 2008. She said: “I was taken out of the prison camp by the Japanese and put in a brothel for the Japanese military to become a so-called ‘comfort woman,’ a euphemism for a military sex slave.

And so, you live with this fear. I still have nightmares. I had one miscarriage in the brothel and another three miscarriages afterwards, after I got married, because my body was just so broken.”

The Japanese Army’s sinful behavior is encapsulated in her excruciatingly painful experiences. Her testimony that the Japanese military took her and other women away, deprived them of their freedom and forced them into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers, resulting in her and others becoming physically sick, needs to be taken seriously. The appearance of dissenting opinions in Japan has hurt the former comfort women. Such opinions tend to focus only on whether or not there was direct use of physical force or threats by the Japanese military.

However, separate to the controversy over the issue of coercion by the military, the international community has taken a firm stance on sexual violence in wartime. That the Japanese military drove women into sexual servitude causes a feeling of repulsion. How would you feel if your daughter were placed in that situation? Thinking from the viewpoint of ordinary people, we need to understand how sternly the international community views Japan on the comfort women issue. Twenty years have passed since the Kono Statement. Evidence pointing towards coercion by the military has appeared repeatedly. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has suggested that he might revise the Kono statement. Now is the time for Abe to declare to the international community that he does not intend to review the Kono Statement.

(English translation by T&CT, Mark Ealey)

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