The Atlantic Monthly on mercenary child-retreivers, mentions Japan
Posted by debito on October 17th, 2009
有道ブログである。
Hi Blog. Here are the lengths people will go to if there is no legal framework to enforce international child abductions: even hire a professional to retrieve your child. From The Atlantic Monthly November 2009, courtesy of Children’s Rights Network Japan. This is it, the big leagues.
Congratulations, left-behind spouses. You’ve hit a home run with this issue.・・・・You’ve put Japan into the international spotlight over a problem just as long-suffering as racial discrimination in Japan.I guess Chris had to get arrested before it would happen, alas.
It will probably will get the GOJ to sign the Hague. Getting us to enforce it, however, is another matter. Keep on it. Arudou Debito in Kyoto
子供の連れ戻しについて、法的枠組みがないと、こうなる。おめでとう、取り残された親御さん、日本の差別問題が国際的な脚光浴びるようになろうが、そうなるには、クリスが逮捕までされてしまった。 日本政府にハーグに締結させることになるだろう、執行するか、どうかは別にして、・・・・として、すごい記事を紹介している。
さらっと読む。
If your ex-spouse has run off and taken your children abroad, and the international legal system is failing to bring them back, what are you to do? One option is to call Gus Zamora, a former Army ranger who will, for a hefty fee, get your children back. Operating in a moral gray area beyond the reach of any clear-cut legal jurisdiction, Zamora claims to have returned 54 children to left-behind parents. Here’s the story of number 55.
倫理的にはグレーゾーン、法的には、管轄外の領域で、元軍隊のレンジャーに取り戻しをはかってみたら、という記事である。
The Atlantic Monthly on mercenary child-retreivers, mentions Japan
Posted by debito on October 17th, 2009
debito.org/?p=4761
魚拓１魚拓２魚拓３魚拓４
日本関連場所をみてみると、
A successful snatchback is only the beginning of the journey. Sometimes, the child doesn’t want to go. Early this year, Gus says, an American father agreed to pay him $70,000 to recover his 10-year-old daughter from Japan, assuring him that the girl would acquiesce. Gus went to the Philippines to prepare an escape route by boat. He then flew to Tokyo and, accompanied by the father, hustled the girl into a van as she left home. “That little girl screamed bloody murder,” Gus told me. “She was beating at the windows. Contrary to everything we’d been told, she definitely did not want to go.” After a day of unsuccessfully trying to calm the girl down, he released her. (He says he received half of his fee up front; he wasn’t paid the remainder.) Gus says he would never snatch an unwilling child―though he also describes recoveries in which a resistant child grew more willing over time.
１０才の日本人の少女を連れ出そうとしたところ、金切り声をあげられて、窓はどんどん叩く、アメリカ人父親から言われたこととは違い、少女は帰りたくなんてなかったんだ、という。その後釈放してあげたそうだ。
----すさまじいケースである。
次は、日本国内のベンダさんのケースである。
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The predicament of Walter Benda is typical. In 1995, he was living with his wife of 13 years in her home country of Japan. According to Benda, he wanted to return to the U.S. and she did not. One day, she disappeared with their two daughters. “Please forgive me for leaving you this way,” she wrote in a note she left. The Japanese police, Benda says, would not investigate what they viewed as a family matter; it took him three and a half years to find the girls. He never won visitation rights. “It took a couple of years before the courts even interviewed my children,” he recalls. “By that time, they’d been brainwashed and didn’t want to see their father.”
１３年間日本で暮らし、アメリカに帰国したかったが、日本人の奥さんは嫌だといった。ある日、娘と、「こんな形でお別れでごめんね」と置き手紙をして、出て行った。ベンダ氏によると、日本の警察は家族内のことに手を出すこともなく、また、面接権も取れなかった。何年かして、裁判所は子供と面会したが、そのころには、洗脳されていて、父親には会いたくない、といっていた、という。
この少女たちを拉致したのか、どうかは書いていない。
ーーー日本国内のケースでハーグとは関係ない。洗脳されたか、どうかはわからない。面接権が認められなかった理由も書いていない。
Sometimes even countries that have agreed to the Hague Convention are no better. For instance, the State Department has more than 500 open cases involving 800 children abducted to or retained in Mexico. The convention has no enforcement mechanism; it’s up to the judicial system of a member nation to make its court’s decision stick. According to the Hague’s own statistics from a 2003 study, only 51 percent of all applications end with the child’s return to the left-behind parent. When the abducting parent does not consent to give up the child, judges take an average of 143 days to order a return―a far cry from the six weeks mandated by the convention. (Costa Rica, which agreed to the convention in 1998, did not respond to the Hague survey, so it is not included in these statistics.)
Gus Zamora, for his part, is generally dismissive of what he calls “the Vague Convention.” But he’s seen it work. In 2004, Hal Berger’s then-wife abducted their son from California to South Africa. A year later, he filed a Hague application, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees and eight months in South Africa during the litigation; finally, South Africa’s Supreme Court ordered the boy’s return to the U.S. Berger, his estranged wife, and their son flew back together on the same plane. But 10 months later, she took off with the son again, using fake passports to return to South Africa. Berger went back to the South African courts―but this time he hired Gus, in case the courts ruled against him, or his estranged wife fled a third time. After spending hundreds of thousands more, a night in jail, and more than a month in Africa, Berger won his case in the South African courts in December 2007 and flew home with his son.
すごいのは、ハーグ条約締結国間でもこうした拉致をしている。
Todd considered filing a Hague application with the State Department, but he was skeptical that it would amount to anything because he distrusted what he dismissed as the corrupt legal system in Costa Rica.
ある人など、ハーグ締結国でも、その国の法の運用が信頼できないから、こどもを拉致せんとこの元軍人に依頼した、というのである。
こうした記事のケースがどのようにハーグ締結と関係するのか定かではない。日本のケースでは、ハーグと仮に関係しても、残酷な拉致のケースと、ハーグとは関係ないケースである。
他のケースでも、ハーグ締結国でも相手国が信用できなければ、こうしてくれるわ、というマッチョな脅しのような記事ではないか？
遵法精神などあったもんじゃない。しかもあのクリスはあたかも英雄である。
ハーグに締結してもしなくても彼等を満足させることは永久に無理そうである。
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