tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post6617411107250945692..comments2023-11-09T14:15:40.111+02:00Comments on Fatima and Ahmed's Son: South Korean Protesters Care for 'Comfort Woman' StatueRidwanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-19899435152333851212013-07-16T11:01:48.346+02:002013-07-16T11:01:48.346+02:00I thought your comments on modern day comfort wome...I thought your comments on modern day comfort women were so compelling I did a post on it.<br /><br />See it here:<br /><br />http://ridwanlaher.blogspot.com/2013/07/modern-day-comfort-women.html<br /><br />Peace to you,<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-53135585270868052962013-07-16T10:10:40.298+02:002013-07-16T10:10:40.298+02:00Thank you kindly for this additional information a...Thank you kindly for this additional information and links. <br /><br />I will look at the links you provide and also reproduce your comment above below a more recent post on South Korea - Japan tensions that appears here on the blog (July 11).<br /><br />You raise excellent points of concern and worrying too.<br /><br />I think it important for us to know that the comfort woman issue is not in the past as you say.<br /><br />Thank you once again,<br />RidwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-60145279432687840362013-07-16T06:40:55.977+02:002013-07-16T06:40:55.977+02:00Again, I'd like to raise the current comfort w...Again, I'd like to raise the current comfort women issue. Actually I don't care about the comfort women issue Japanese army caused. That's the history and over. Also it was just a problem lasting for five years or so though it was during the war time. However, the current comfort women problem has been going on for over half a century. Yes, the comfort women issue is still going on -- they changed the customers from the Japanese army to the USA army, but their business has kept on going. Please read the Stanford or Rhode Island university reports. They're a free report, then you can see who is behind the scene. This looks the nation related problem because the government seems involved, and perhaps that's why it's so hard for people to know this problem. <br /><br />Modern day comfort women - University of Rhode Island.<br />http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/modern_day_comfort_women.pdf<br /><br />Also you can visit the page (modern comfort women) to know more, which is https://www.facebook.com/pages/Modern-Comfort-Women/389352384499538Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-42956349306979961852012-01-16T09:51:33.688+02:002012-01-16T09:51:33.688+02:00Nolwazi in this case many of the perpetrators are ...Nolwazi in this case many of the perpetrators are dead already.<br /><br />The same is true for the victims.<br /><br />Most of the women who are protesting are confronting a past they were not directly victimized by - but they are nonetheless implicated in memory and socio-political consequence.<br /><br />Some theorist call this prosthetic memory but I have my problems with the idea that anyone can live a memory as an attachment - like a prosthesis.<br /><br />Ugly memories have specific consequences - white people cannot know the pain of racism from the point of being black no matter how genuine they are about resenting the apartheid past, for example.<br /><br />A major part of any confrontation is naming the victims and the perpetrators.<br /><br />They past and its abuses must be uncovered and not hidden to fester from generation to generation.<br /><br />Confrontation is not about revenge in these terms.<br /><br />It is about repairing the social system - bringing a sense of restorative justice by reclaiming the humanity of the victims.<br /><br />In this sense it is about individuals but it is more about a collective justice which is made possible by political will.<br /><br />The Japanese government must admit and be genuine about what was done to the "comfort women".<br /><br />Denial is not an option because for the social system to repair itself there needs to a process of making sense of the past.<br /><br />Not just a rationalization mind you.<br /><br />There are no guarantees though.<br /><br />I like to believe that the process is not about the perpetrators - that is just one part.<br /><br />In the absence of the perpetrator the abused victim must come to terms with an ugly past - confrontation is a commitment to that process (and there is no one process or defined process).<br /><br />The abused woman, raped victim, cannot just erase what happened.<br /><br />There are consequences that link through time and space.<br /><br />The same is true of groups of people who have suffered collective traumas - like the "comfort women".<br /><br />Institutional violence like that perpetrated against aboriginals/indigenous people are the same in consequences.<br /><br />It cannot just be brushed aside as being part of the past - the notion of moving on is erasure.<br /><br />Peace,<br />ridwanRidwanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16758153484699728802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36009958.post-74532787923156523862012-01-16T04:19:44.583+02:002012-01-16T04:19:44.583+02:00Thanks for the education Ridwan.
Tell me, how c...Thanks for the education Ridwan. <br /><br />Tell me, how can confrontation help in healing wounds as deep as these?<br /><br />What is it's purpose when the crime is so severe? It seems to be that a crime against humanity like sexual terrorism needs a deadly confrontation. And I know we agree on who should die then.<br /><br />I doubt any other type pf confrontation could be equated to justice but that is illegal, isn't it?<br /><br />So, confrontation, what is it in this case?<br /><br />That $300 million dollar tip for forced sex makes me sick. Those terms "comfort women" and "comfort stations" are twisted. Men in war are insane beyond belief.Nolwazihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13628478131579213980noreply@blogger.com