2-4. The War and Women’s Human Rights Museum4
In the Mapo district in Seoul, there is an institution called “The War and Women’s Human Rights Museum,” run by an organization called “The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan (Council for Draftees).”
Many materials relating to comfort women are exhibited here. Presumably, to emphasize “cruelties” inflicted by the Japanese military, the place is filled with an eerie air and, for unknown reasons, photography inside the museum is prohibited.
At the start of the visitors’ route are plaster-molded faces and hands of old women sticking out from the walls.
The individual audio guide narrates in a depressing voice.
“Look at the girl on the left wall. Not knowing what cruel fate may await her, she is heading somewhere with her head down. And on the right wall a victim, who has become old after having
4 The War and Women’s Human Rights Museum
http://www.womenandwarmuseum.net/contents/main/main.asp
gone through painful years, is staring at you. These works are plaster moldings of real victims’ faces and hands. Don’t you feel as if the victims were talking to you? That’s their desperate cries filled with pains and sorrow and they are whispering, “Listen to me. Listen to my story!” “The pictures on the staircase wall depict the memories of the comfort women who were victimized by the Japanese military—how they were abducted by Japanese soldiers and transferred aboard a
ship to far-off foreign land. These pictures vividly convey how scared the girls were on the way to unknown places beyond vast, almost endless sea.”
The audio guide goes on, criticizing Japan and concluding that the comfort women were “sex slaves” incorporated into the Japanese state structure.
“One important thing is that the ‘comfort women’ are used to clarify historical fact, but as a matter of fact, they were nothing but ‘sex slaves’.”
“The issue of the comfort women for the Japanese military was a crime born with the war and aggravated in the war. It is the extreme example of how dreadfully a war destroys people’s living and especially, the life of women. Above all, in a sense that such crime was committed by a state power called the Japanese Government in a systematized way, it makes the issue graver and more serious.”
“All of the victim states in Asia held International Women’s Tribunal for War Crimes to judge the
Japanese military sex slaves and brought in a verdict of guilty to Emperor Hirohito in the name of the entire women in the world.”
The claim that this crime was committed by a state, the Japanese Government, in a systematic fashion is a sheer lie.
The forced abduction of comfort women by the Japanese military is a fallacy, as mentioned earlier.
The International Women’s Tribunal for War Crimes was nothing more than a sham trial, held by a group of anti-Japanese activists. This museum, which insults the Emperor Showa, the state symbol of Japan, and degrades the Japanese people, is nothing more than a racist facility
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