照片上的女孩叫 Jan Ruff O’HERNE,荷兰人(后移居澳大利亚)。从19岁开始,做为战俘的她被迫做为慰安妇给日军提供性服务,被不分昼夜的蹂躏了三个月之久!
老人回忆:
I could hear the screaming coming from the bedrooms. The tears were streaming down my face as he raped me in a most brutal way. I thought he would never stop...there were more Japanese waiting, and this went on all night, it was only the beginning, week after week, month after month.
Ms O'Herne said a formal apology would help the healing process to begin.
"An apology will give us back our dignity," she said.
"You can't imagine the shame that we have lived with.
"After you've experienced those things, those atrocities, you feel dirty, you feel ashamed, you feel soiled, and we carry that shame all our life."
Jan Ruff O’HERNE本人以及另外的三位命运更加悲惨的慰安妇将出席下个周日(25, Nov)的听证会,相信到时候观众将会更多的从她们的讲述里了解那段历史。
回过头来再看看日本的表现吧。
远的就不说了,就从今年开始吧:
下面是日本首相安倍今年三月说的一段话:
“There is no evidence to prove there was coercion, nothing to support it. So, in respect to this declaration, you have to keep in mind that things have changed greatly.”
更惊人的在后面,在今年四月二十六日安倍访问美国的第一天,华盛顿邮报刊登了一篇叫<慰安妇真相>(The truth about Japan's 'comfort women)的文章。该文的作者(Henry Hyde,Chris Smith)在文章里对安倍否认历史进行了谴责,简要的介绍了日军强迫妇女做慰安妇的残暴历史,并且敦促安倍面对历史,郑重道歉。
在多方压力之下,安倍访美期间推翻了自己之前的说法。
但是仅仅在几个星期之后的六月十四日,在同样的报纸(华盛顿邮报)上,日本的44位议员(货真价实的MP)联名以付费广告的方式登了一整版的文章,题目就叫<真相>(The Facts)。文中,作者点名指出之前的<慰安妇真相> 是谎言(Anything but truth),并且列出了五条真相,现将其简要列举如下: