‘Comfort women’ launch fundraising efforts for Japan

[rpannier]

The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery in Japan (Korean Council) announced Friday that it is beginning efforts to raise funds to help Japanese people who have suffered major damages with last week's earthquake in northeastern Japan.

In its announcement Friday, the association said, “The women who were victims of being drafted into sexual slavery for the Japanese military proposed raising fund for the people who suffered damages in Japan, and since it was proposed by women who, because of their past experiences, know better than anyone about human pain and suffering, we accepted the proposal and decided to begin raising funds.”

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The fundraising effort is to begin in earnest with the regular Wednesday Demonstration on Mar. 23, the 962nd, and will continue for five weeks until Apr. 26.

The Korean Council has held weekly “Wednesday Demonstrations” in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul every week for the nearly twenty years since Jan. 8, 1992, with one exception in 1995 when the Hanshin earthquake struck the city of Kobe. The 961st demonstration on Mar. 16 took the form of a silent vigil to offer sympathy for the tragedy of the Mar. 11 earthquake.

link:
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/468875.html

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So, to all the "Karma for Pearl Harbor folks out there -- Fuck You. It was 70 years ago, you weren't at Pearl Harbor.
These women were abused by the Japanese during WW II and they're a hell of a lot classier than you.

[Bluebear]

1. Unbelievable.

Now THAT is compassion. Bravo to them.

[Sonoman]

2. KnR. Your subject line could be...

a great opener for a lot of really horrible jokes.

These women are so special. I watched a really moving documentary about them, but cannot recall the title.

Sonoman

[monmouth]

3. Every once in a while good humanity shines through. This is

definitely one of those times...Bless these women...

[Scuba]

4. My already incredible admiration for the Korean people just went up another notch. n/t

[Control-Z]

5. This made me cry.

I'm not sure why it moved me so...something about these women just caring SO much. Who could say no to them?

"...women who, because of their past experiences, know better than anyone about human pain and suffering, we accepted the proposal and decided to begin raising funds."

[roguevalley]

6. to forgive is divine. they are saving themselves saving these people.

[femmedem]

8. Made me cry, too. n/t

[jacquelope]

7. My prayers go out to those women

in addition to the Japanese.

[Zephie]

9. They are much more compassionate and forgiving then I think I would be

I am humbled.