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Comfort Women - The Worst Crime
   Taiwan resolution calls on Japan to
     compensate comfort women

     Nov 11 02:25 AM US/Eastern

        TAIPEI, Nov. 11 (AP) -
    (Kyodo)—(EDS: ADDING DETAILS)
Taiwan's parliament adopted Tuesday a resolution
seeking an apology and compensation from Japan for forcing women into sex slavery during World War II.
In a rare show of unity, the island's ruling and
opposition parties passed by a unanimous vote the
Taiwan Comfort Women Resolution, calling on Tokyo
to "accept historical responsibility for its World War II
sex slavery institution, and apologize to and
compensate surviving victims."
Japan came under fire from resolutions passed
last year by the United States and European Union
calling on Tokyo to own up to its wartime military
brothel program that allegedly forced hundreds of
thousands of women to become prostitutes,
euphemistically referred to as "comfort women"
in Japan.
"I don't think the resolution will have any specific
impact on Taiwan's relations with Japan.
We just hope Japan will begin to hear the voices of
the world on this issue," said Huang Sue-ying, an
opposition Democratic Progressive Party legislator
and co-sponsor of the resolution.
Taiwan's parliament, or Legislative Yuan, Huang said, timed the resolution to roughly coincide with a similar resolution passed by South Korea's National
Assembly last month.
That resolution calls on Japan to apologize to and
compensate surviving comfort women in
South Korea.
Taiwan, Huang said, has about 20 aging survivors for whom the resolution "is their last chance to voice
their requests to Japan."
"I fear that the survivors will all pass on in the next
two years," she added.

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by fighter_eiji | 2008-11-13 22:10 | English
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