The following is the article reported by Yonhap News Agency
(YNA)(2014/06/25).
Yonhap News Agency (YNA)） （2014/06/25）
122 Comfort women for US Army in South
Korea(Yong Ju Gol) filed a damage suit
Over 120
women, who have worked as prostitutes in base(US
bases) villages, bring a class action lawsuit for
damages against Korean government (2014/06/25） (bring a class action
lawsuit bring an action for damages) Korean Women Association Alliance,
Women's Human right Solidarity(literal translation) and others gave a
press conference at Seoul Women Plaza. They urged that Korean
government must apology and pay compensation to the victims living in
base villages of Comfort Women's System for US Army.
The
plaintiff's group of 122 members claimed "In Korea, there are not only
comfort women for Japanese army. Korean government built 'Comfort Women's
System for US Army', and had complete control. All
trafficking of women were determined to be illegal, whereas comfort women
can prostitue themselves for US Army in the name of 'specific areas'.
Korean government went so far as to provide moral education by the name of
"patriotic education.". They insisted more as follows. " When we had gone
to base villages after the war by poverty or trafficking, we
were forced into prostitution for US Army with various
types of violence." "We went to a police station to ask for help
to escape from the life of a bottom in base villages. But we were
led to base villages by their hands against all
expectations. Anyone of Korean authorities used us to earn
foreign currency rather than guarding us."
Plaintiff's group
claimed "Comfort Women's System for US Army was the policy of women's
rights failing by state violence." and stressed "Korean
government must reveal historic facts of 'Comfort Women's System
for US Army' and damage, and fulfill their
responsibility."
Plaintiff's
group plan to file a complaint for 1,000 won(about a
million yen) per capita in
damages.
The
insiders in Korean Women Association Alliance explained
"The plaintiffs have been living lives as comfort women
for dozens of years. They have been receiving the cold
shoulder and have suffered slights million times. Though their
damages wouldn't be sold for a million dollars, we determined
this symbolic cost once.
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これが聯合ニュースの記事です。
（聯合ニュース 韓国語 2014/06/25）
『基地村の女性』、国相手に集団損害賠償訴訟
国内の基地村内で性売買に従事した女性120人あまりが国を相手に損害賠償請求訴訟に出る。
韓国女性団体連合と基地村の女性人権連帯などの団体は25日午後、ソウル女性プラザで記者会見を行い、
「政府が基地村内の米軍慰安婦制度の被害者に謝罪して賠償しなければならない」と促した。
原告団122人は声明書で「韓国に『慰安婦』は日本軍慰安婦のみがあるのではない。政府は『米軍慰安婦』制度を
作り、徹底的に管理した」としながら「すべての性売買を不法に定めておいて“特定地域”設置という見せ掛けの形を使って慰安婦が米軍性売買をするようにし、『愛国教育』という名前で精神教育までした』と主張した。
引き続き、「戦争後貧しくて、または人身売買されて基地村に来た私たちは、様々な暴力によって強制的に
米軍の相手をさせられた」として「どん底のような基地村を抜け出ようと警察などに助けを求めたが、
むしろ彼らの手に引かれて帰ってきた。国の誰も私たちを保護せず、むしろ外貨稼ぎに利用した」と指摘した。
原告団は「軍慰安婦制度は国家暴力によって行われた女性の人権蹂躪政策」としながら「政府は基地村の
米軍慰安婦制度の歴史的事実と被害を明確に明らかにし、法的責任を全うしなければならない」と強調した。
原告団はこの日、記者会見に続きソウル中央地方法院に1人当り1千万ウォン（約100万円）の賠償を請求する 趣旨の訴状を提出する予定だ。
韓国女性団体連合関係者は「原告は数十年間、米軍慰安婦として生きて数多くの冷遇と軽蔑を経験した」として
「被害をお金に換算できないがひとまず象徴的な意味で訴訟金額を定めた」と説明した。
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