日本の金でベトナム（ライダイハン）に賠償するという偽善

このニュースは、Eiji Nakanoさんも触れていたと思う。「韓国軍性暴行被害者は...一人で子供を育てたり、二世も日雇い労働者や街頭での行商などをしながら、不安定な生活を送っている」・・・いわゆるライダイハン問題。

しばしば、韓国が慰安婦を持ち出すならこっちはライダイハンを問題化させようというような議論を見かける。自分もライダイハンについて触れることはあるが、ライダイハン問題をカウンターの為に持ち出すのは違うような気がする。もともと韓国人はこの問題をあまり気にしていない。どこの国にもあった不祥事と見なされているからだろう。挺対協は元々女権論者の集団だから、韓国軍の性暴力にも批判的である。ユン・ミヒャンは著書の中で、日本のようになるな！と言って韓国人に反省を促している（苦笑）。ただし、彼女たちは韓国軍にも慰安婦がいたことには口を噤んでいる（理由は明らかだろう）。

日本の金でベトナムに恩を売ろうという挺対協は賢く、そして戦略的である。普通に考えれば、彼女たちと深い繋がりのある女性家族部（韓国政府）に救済措置を促すのが先だろうという話である。恩を売るというのは、彼女たちの国際ネットワーク作りの一環でもあるのだろう。

慰安婦被害ハルモニ　ベトナム戦争性暴行被害者 助ける

日本軍慰安婦被害者のハルモニが、ベトナム戦争性暴行被害者のために支援基金を出した。

韓国挺身隊問題対策協議会(挺対協)は、日本政府から受ける法的賠償金である「ナビ(蝶々)基金」から、ベトナム人のグエン・バン・ルオン氏(43)、グエン・ティ・キム氏（女性・43)にそれぞれ6千ドル、4千ドルを送ったと17日、明らかにした。

挺対協は、日本軍慰安婦被害者の金福童（キム・ボクトン）ハルモニ(87)、吉元玉（キル・ウォンオク）ハルモニ(84)の意思により、ベトナム戦当時、派兵した韓国軍による性暴行で生まれたルオン氏とキム氏を助けることになったと明らかにした。日雇いでエビ獲りの仕事をしていたルオン氏は、挺対協の支援により、30年契約で畑を借り、農作業をすることができるようになった。キム氏は建物を借りて商店を開く予定だ。挺対協関係者は「ベトナム現地にいる韓国軍性暴行被害者は、大部分が(正式に)結婚できずに一人で子供を育てたり、二世も日雇い労働者や街頭での行商などをしながら、不安定な生活を送っている」と話した。

挺対協は、昨年３月慰安婦被害者ハルモニが、日本政府から法的賠償金を受けることになれば、戦争性暴行被害者を助けるのに使う予定だと明らかにした。しかし、日本政府が依然として賠償しておらず、ハルモニの意思に賛同する市民の寄付金でナビ基金を用意した。歌手のイ・ヒョリ氏が初代推進委員として500万ウォンを寄付し、約300団体と個人が参加して７千万ウォン以上が集まった。挺対協は、昨年コンゴ民主共和国の内戦での強姦被害者であると同時に他の被害者や子供たちを助けているレベッカ・マシカ・カチュバ氏を初の支援対象に選定して、毎月500ドル以上の活動費を送っている。

挺対協関係者は、「ハルモニの夢は平和だ。その意思がよく伝わるよう、必要なところに基金を送っていく」と話した。

ハンギョレ日本語版 2013.6.17

追記：　木村幹神戸大学教授のツイート　（2013.7.9）

木村幹教授がソウルの慰安婦博物館でインタビュー。「勿論、日本での議論も意識しての事です」、と博物館側。やはり、そういう事情もあったのか。しかし、そうした議論にすばやく対処できるのが挺対協の強みだろう。

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［資料/英語］ Why is there silence?

世界のネットに見る慰安婦のイメージ。

ユーゴ紛争やルワンダなどと共に民族浄化（戦争の手段としてのレイプ）の例として紹介される日本軍慰安婦システム。こういうイメージ作りは、韓国の市民団体などによって90年代から国連などで一環して行われてきた。

Why is there silence?

Victoria
uhm…the link doesn’t work

deanne_77
one, your link doesn’t work

two, it’s never “fair” to use women as intruments of war. the acts that you so grossly, graphically detailed are all war crimes punishable under the Hague Conventions. why so many women have been victimized in times of war is due to the baseness of those who perpetrated those acts, the utter lack of humanity of the circumstances. so no one should ever think that the war abuses done to women were justified or fair (unless you’re a psycho, of course).

and three, these things continue not because we want them to, but because few people are doing anything about it. women, for being physically weaker, could easily be the helpless preys…nevertheless, there have been efforts to seek justice on their behalf, just like when the governments/States of the comfort women took the cudgels for them and sued the Japanese government for damages. moreover, normal people with some sense of morality in them, never tolerate these war atrocities.

yarking lunchloaf
so what should we do about it? Invade Africa? Get tangled up in half a dozen running sore conflicts and get a whole bunch of Westerners killed, just so we can withdraw someday, leave a few U.N. peacekeepers around to get slaughtered and eventually have what’s left of them bail out of there too, and have everything go back to the way it was? Our little incursion in Somalia should attest to the veracity of what I’ve said here.

It’s not just women that are victimized in Africa. Young boys get raped and are forced into brutal military servive. People are slaughtered and deliberately starved by the millions, and so on.

They don’t live by our rules. And it’s apparent that they never will, unless they are forced to by military intervention on a huge scale. And you shouldn’t hold your breath waiting for the West to recolonize Africa.

But feel free to howl and wring your hands over it if it makes you feel better. Just don’t expect it to change anything. And don’t expect me to join you. Don’t waste my time on things that are have been amply proven to be futile efforts.

gorgeous
Silence is the complete absence of sound, like black is the complete absens of light.

afraidofamericans
There is not silence, you just wrote about it.
There is inaction, because most of us don’t know what to do about it.

Melimark
It’s not fair, and women and children are used as leverage in these situations because the husbands “will do anything” to prevent their families from being killed. But it doesn’t really help.

Women have always been used in wars. It’s the ultimate violation, and it makes many afraid – which is exactly what the enemy wants.

Here is an except about the rapes in Congo:
(http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=1113&Language=1)

“The widespread problem of sexual violence throughout DRC—it has been reported that 40 cases of rapes occur everyday in South Kivu—is coupled with a disturbing element of sexual brutality as women and girls are being gang raped, abducted and forced into sexual slavery.

Many survivors of sexual violence have received debilitating damage to their reproductive organs, resulting in multiple fistulas and incontinence. Women and girls have been left with broken bones, missing limbs and even burns. Some have been shot and stabbed in the vagina with bullets, bits of broken glass and corns of cob. Family men have been forced to sexually violate their daughters, sisters, and mothers at gun point. ”

There were comfort women in WWII, rape camps in Serbia, mass rape in Rwanda (resulting in 250,000 cases of HIV).

Why does it continue? Why is it “fair” to use women as instruments of war?

http://www.unfpa.org/news/news.cfm?ID=1113&Language=1

Umm….I’m “reminding the world” of women’s powerlessness by asking about atrocity rapes in Congo??? Are you an advocate of silence? (the world would be so much more compassionate with silence so that human rights violations could continue to take place, is that it?….join the human race, why don’t you?

ANAL INFO

年40万人が強姦されたコンゴ

戦争の手段としてのレイプが実行されているコンゴでは、2006年から2007年の一年間で40万人がレイプされたという報告がアメリカから出た。この数字は、これまでの国連の推計を上回る。

DR Congo: 48 rapes every hour, US study finds

The study, in the American Journal of Public Health, found that 400,000 females aged 15-49 were raped over a 12-month period in 2006 and 2007.

That rate is significantly higher than the previous estimate of 16,000 rapes reported in one year by the UN.

The DRC says the figures reflect women being better able to report rape.

Sexual violence has long been a dominant feature of the continuing conflict in eastern DR Congo.

Amber Peterman, leading author of the study, said: "Our results confirm that previous estimates of rape and sexual violence are severe underestimates of the true prevalence of sexual violence occurring in the DRC.

"Even these new, much higher figures still represent a conservative estimate of the true prevalence of sexual violence because of chronic underreporting due to stigma, shame, perceived impunity, and exclusion of younger and older age groups as well as men," she added.
Worst affected area

The study, entitled Estimates and Determinants of Sexual Violence Against Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo, used data from a 2007 government health survey.

Previous estimates have been derived from police and health centre reports.

The highest numbers of rapes were found in war-ravaged North Kivu, where an average of 67 women out of 1,000 have been raped at least once.

However, the report said sexual violence was also widespread outside the conflict zones of eastern Congo.

The BBC's Thomas Hubert in Kinshasa says the study is in line with earlier reports that found sexual violence was spreading outside of war zones and into Congo's civilian society.

Government spokesman Lambert Mende told the BBC that recent increases in rape figures were a result of better reporting rather than rising violence.

"The report itself of these scientists is an evidence of the state becoming more and more efficient by dispatching judges, prosecutors, police all over the country," he said.

"It is that, that allows people now to complain and to feed such reports."

Commenting on the report, Michael VanRooyen, director of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, said that "rape in the DRC... has emerged as one of the great human crises of our time".

BBC 2011.5.11

戦争の手段としての強姦【コンゴ】蛮行止まず

戦争で用いられる武器は、銃や戦車だけではない。最近ではサイバー戦争といった言葉もある。プロパガンダだって戦争の手段である。

もうひとつ、強姦も戦争の手段として用いられることもある。ユーゴ紛争でも用いられた。被征服民の女性を強姦することで、民族浄化を行い（セルビア人の子供を産ませる）、同時に男たちの戦意を削ぐというものだと言われている。日本軍の慰安所も、そういった施設（レイプセンター）だという濡れ衣を着せられているが、それはともかく、今もコンゴではこういった事が止まないでいる。

BBCは記事を削除しないので、出だしとリンクだけ。

DR Congo army commander 'led mass rape' in Fizi

One of the victims has identified the military commander in the area of directing the violence

An army commander in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has been accused of leading the recent mass rape of at least 50 women.

One of the victims, as well as sources quoted in a UN report, all accuse Lt Col Kibibi Mutware of links to New Year's Day rapes in the town of Fizi.　（以下略）

19 January 2011 BBC

33 women raped in the Democratic Republic of Congo

いつだったか、オーマイニュース・インターナショナルの外国人市民記者が、コンゴやユーゴでは組織的レイプが行われ、日本軍にはレイプ・キャンプ（強姦所）があったと書いていた。アナベル・パクら良心的アメリカ人は、日本が過ちを認めて謝ることで、再びこのような悲劇が起こることを抑止できると演説した。

とすると、コンゴで「戦争の道具としてのレイプ」が止まないのは、日本のせいか？

At least 33 women were raped on New Year's Day in a region in the Democratic Republic of Congo, said the medical group Doctors Without Borders Thursday.

"Women had been restrained with ropes or beaten unconscious with the butt of a gun before being attacked, some in front of their children." said Annemarie Loof, the head of the medical aid organization's mission in the South Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

"Up to four armed men were involved at a time and homes and shops were looted," Loof added.

These alleged rapes come after reports from the United Nations that more than 200 people were systematically raped during rebel attacks in the summer of 2010 in the country.

CNN 2011.1.7