On April 15 2014 05:46 Yuljan wrote:
I dont see any reason why chinese immigrants should get to erect statues in another country or do you mean the few australian women that worked as prostitutes in the japanese army? And I agree with the guy from the netherlands the past is in the past. Let them build a statue for all women raped in the war. Or do you want to exclude the 2 million german women raped by the red army? Or the ten thousand raped by US soldiers? Or the 330 "reported" daily rapes commited by US soldiers during the occupation of Japan? Did they deserve it because they were on the losing side?
I am sorry but 100,000 to 300,000 forced prostitutes seems pretty close to the figures of other nations. Read some accounts. Noone nation is innocent in wars especially concerning rapes and forced prostitution. The only difference is Japan kept accounts while the other nations just silently allowed it.
I dont see any reason why chinese immigrants should get to erect statues in another country or do you mean the few australian women that worked as prostitutes in the japanese army? And I agree with the guy from the netherlands the past is in the past. Let them build a statue for all women raped in the war. Or do you want to exclude the 2 million german women raped by the red army? Or the ten thousand raped by US soldiers? Or the 330 "reported" daily rapes commited by US soldiers during the occupation of Japan? Did they deserve it because they were on the losing side?
I am sorry but 100,000 to 300,000 forced prostitutes seems pretty close to the figures of other nations. Read some accounts. Noone nation is innocent in wars especially concerning rapes and forced prostitution. The only difference is Japan kept accounts while the other nations just silently allowed it.
And I don't see why you or some Japanese would think their opinion on the statue matters. You don't think they should get to make a statue because they aren't from Australian and because other soldiers raped people too? That's not an argument I would expect from an intelligent human being. People should be able to construct any monuments they choose and if that offends someone because their government trained them to deny past atrocities in school, to fucking bad. You don't see any other country pretending like the past didn't occur and trying to stop memorials in other countries.
Also trying to compare rogue soldiers raping people with the systemic use of slavery, rape, torture, and murder used by the Japanese in WWII is downright appalling.