Re:드디어 일본군위안부안건 미 하원본회의 우세속에 통과

[김세중(뉴욕)]

BREAKING NEWS
Comfort Women Resolution Passes US House
[ http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/30/america/NA-GEN-US-Japan-Comfort-Women.php ]

Remarks from Representative Ed Royce (R-CA) on February 15, 2007:

"Some will ask "why do we focus on this issue now?" Certainly time has passed and there are many pressing issues on the Korean Peninsula. Recently, the Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on the killing in Darfur, Sudan. What we have there is genocide being conducted by the Sudanese government. Much of the world, sadly, is ignoring this killing. The Chinese government is blocking sanctions. The world's strength to oppose killing today is made greater by accountability, for actions present, but also past. It's weakened by denial of accountability and obfuscation of past acts. History is a continuum that affects today and tomorrow. It's much harder to get tomorrow right if we get yesterday wrong."

remarks from Representative Tom Lantos (D-CA) less than an hour ago:

"No nation can completely disregard its own past, neither the actions of a few nor the actions of many.  Inhumane deeds should be fully acknowledged - a spotlight shined on the whole truth.  This is essential to national reconciliation and it helps the victims to heal.  Withholding that acknowledgment only compounds the cruelty.

Post-War Germany, with the most horrendous crimes in its history, made the right choice.  Japan, on the other hand, has actively promoted historical amnesia.

The facts, Mr. Speaker, are plain: There can be no denying that the Japanese Imperial military coerced thousands upon thousands of Asian women, primarily Chinese and Koreans, into sexual slavery during the Second World War.

The continued efforts by some in Japan to distort and deny history and play a game of blame-the-victim are nauseating. Those who posit that all of the "comfort women" were happily complicit and acting of their own accord simply don't understand the meaning of the word "rape."

But most importantly, Mr. Speaker it speaks out for the victims of this monstrous system, who were terrorized and brutalized by men at war.  It gives voice to these courageous women whom others have tried to silence through shame, bigotry, and threats of further violence.   

It is appropriate that this House stand up for these women, who ask only that truth be honored. The world awaits a full reckoning of history from the Japanese government."

[김세중(뉴욕)]

우리 민족의 경사입니다. 다음은 미 상원에서도 같은 결의를 하도록 운동을 해나가야 할 것입니다. 한가지 우리가 알아야 할것이 있습니다, 미 하원 외교위원회는 31일, 테로 와의 전쟁에서 일본의 역할에 감사하다는 결의안을 채택한다 합니다. “랜토스” 위원장과 “혼다” 의원도 공동 제안자로 되어 있다 하니, 위안부 결의안에서 일본을 비난한 이들의 양면 외교를 볼 수 있습니다.

[楊仁會(뉴욕)]

미국의 스커트 속에서 일본 한국 다 같이 잘 놀아라 하는 싸인이군요,,,

[김세중(뉴욕)]

일본에 병 주고 약 주는 격이죠.

[이대영(뉴욕)]

많은 위안부여성들이 이미 저세상에 갔겠지만 만천하하에서 진실이 존중되었고 억울함이 입증된것이죠. 일본이 어떻게 받아들이고 자숙하며 반성을 행동으로 보일지가 관심사입니다.

[李典九(뉴욕)]

우리 동포들의 정치참여가 많은 결실을 본 결과 입니다 ! 우리 김영덕박사님 의 숨은 공을 치하 해드려야 합니다.

[이희자(뉴욕)]

그래요. 우리 교포들은 서울대 동문들을 포함하여 왜곡된 역사 바로잡기에 일조했는데 막상 한국에선 아주 조용하네요...