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Stichting Japanse Ereschulden
Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts
NGO, Status Roster
His Excellency Shinzo ABE
Prime Minister of Japan
The Hague, 8 May 2007
Petition: 150
Subject: Take courage and admit responsibility.
Excellency,
During your visit to the United States you must have learned how strong
the resentment is to Japan’s refusal to acknowledge the bad behaviour of
it’s military during World War Two. It is not sufficient as Prime Minister
to express your remorse and sympathy for former comfort women who had to
go through hardship. It is essential that you make Japan acknowledge the
Japanese military’s war time sex exploitation of women and other crimes.
It is time that Japan takes full responsibility for the crimes, compensating
the victims.
The inhume nature of the crimes committed are time and again confirmed in
the courts. Victims were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers, starved
in concentration camps or brought to Japan as slaves to work in mines.
Some were treated as guinea pigs in laboratories and made to endure germ
warfare experiments. All surviving, but aging victims suffer from traumas
and physical pain. Japanese courts recognize all these crimes against humanity,
but claim international treaties as having dealt with individual compensation.
Prime Minister,
Detachment is the biggest tragedy of human kind, show you care.
From a purely humanitarian standpoint it is now the time to take courage
and take the initiative:
• show your personal remorse and sympathy by introducing legislation into the Diet acknowledging the military crimes and compensating the victims,
• show the people of Japan that the Asian Women’s Fund was Japans’
first attempt to compensate the individual victims of the Japanese military,
but failed to do so as the monies came from private individuals and not
from the government,
• show the world that Japan accepts its responsibility in full by
compensating the military victims of World War Two.
Prime Minister,
In 149 petitions we have put forward our requests to consider Japans’
moral responsibility. All petitions have been ignored and not acknowledged.
You have the opportunity to make this 150th petition worthwhile.
On behalf of the Foundation of Japanese Honorary Debts,
J.F. van Wagtendonk
President
cc United Nations: President Human Rights Council
Dutch Government: Minister President
European Commission: Chairman
The Ambassador of the United States of America
The Ambassador of the Peoples Republic of China
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