I was at the meeting last night..and one interesting comment came to
me from a local Aboriginal who was highly offended that such a statue
involving foreign governments should be erected in Strathfield when
there are not even any statues commemorating the stolen generation.
Another local said maybe they could erect the statue at Rookwood cemetery
which would fit with councillor Song Ok's request that it could be put
anywhere.
I'd also like to know where we could erect all the following statues
also and am concerned Strathfield doesn't have enough parks for the following ;
1. Statue for the estimated 200,000 Vietnamese women and children raped by
South Korean soldiers in the Vietnam war and the 30,000 Lai Dai Han ( children
of mixed blood ) left behind.
2. Statue for the millions of Tibetans and Uighurs who have been slaughtered
by the Chinese..which is still continuing today.
3. Statue for the estimated 40,000 Indonesians slaughtered under the Dutch
occupation.
4. Statue for the Indian community remembering their great losses under
the British colonization.
5. Statue for the Timorese killed and persecuted under the Indonesians quietly
sanctioned by the Australian Government.
6.Statue for the West Papuans who continue to be killed and persecuted under
the Indonesians to this day,quietly sanctioned by the Australian Government.
7. Statue for North American Indians slaughtered by invading white settlers.
8. Statue for African Americans..still suffering to this day
and these are only a handful of the horrid atrocities that have occurred in
the past 100 years,,imagine if we look back a further 100years or more...
Trust I've made my point, and unless you are going to change Strathfield's
name to " Statuedom " then no statues concerning any foreign occurrences
should ever be erected..but we dearly do owe one..more like 1 million statues
to the great original custodians of our land, the aboriginals who suffered
at the hands of the white people.
David:
I wish to object to this fanciful idea of erecting such a statue to these so called “comfort woman”. It is widely known that
many of them were in fact already prostitutes who were recruited by Korean agents. In my opinion, these agents are the
real criminals in this matter ….(中略） Where do you draw the line? Do we really want to drag all wars throughout history
by erecting such statues for every perceived injustice? My comment to you is to GET OVER IT. We cannot change history
nor should we try. Why do China and Korea continue to belittle Japan and cause such trouble all over the world. I would
remind them: the war ended in1945. Many countries were affected during the war and are not making such ridiculous claims.
Anonymous:
There is an unwritten rule when migrating to Australia and that is to leave any grievances with other nations at the door.
匿名さん：豪州に移民するとき、不文律がある。それは、他国に対する苦情（対立感情）をうしろに置いてくることだ。
Ａ： Even the NAZI ambassador in Nanking was appalled with the atrocities committed by the Japanese during the sacking of the city.
Ｂ： yes, where is the evidence for that?
Ａ： that's why yakuza is running the government in Japan. criminal records get rewritten.
Ｂ： damn you sure know alot, where did you get this info? from the media? or from movies or games?
Ａ： No indoctrination is necessary. Just tell the truth that Japanese solders committed rape.
Ｂ： if they really did, they wouldn't need to use comfort stations, which were created necessarily to avoid rape
Japan is criticized over the so called comfort women problem which was happened in the war. Koreans against
Japan over the comfort women issue said that they, prostitutes for Japanese military, were forced into prostitution
as a form of sexual slavery by the Japanese military organization. Korean-Americans built a Comfort Women statue
in Glendale in California in 2013. The Comfort Women story is so sad. But criminals were not the Japanese soldiers.
Bruce Cumings wrote in his book as follows: “Many Korean women were mobilized to serve (as prostitutes) by Korean
men.”Many researchers and scholars have studied the issues, but what they found were very different from the Korean
accusations. Please read some newspaper article which were published in wartime.
(1)Japanese police in Korea rescued about 50 women who were being mobilized as prostitutes to North China and
Manchuria by a Korean human trafficking gang, published in 1939 March 28 by the Dong-a Ilbo newspaper.
