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Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery

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and shame to tell their stories to the world and testify before us. Many of the women who have come forward to fight for justice have died unsung heroes. While the names inscribed in history's page have been, at best, those of the men who commit the crimes or who prosecute them, rather than the women who suffer them, this Judgement bears the names of the survivors who took the stand to tell their stories, and thereby, for four days at least, put wrong on the scaffold and truth on the throne.
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Accordingly, through this Judgment, this Tribunal intends to honor all the women victimized by Japan's military sexual slavery system. The Judges recognize the great fortitude and dignity of the survivors who have toiled to survive and reconstruct their shattered lives and who have faced down fear
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The Crimes committed against these survivors remain one of the greatest unacknowledged and unremedied injustices of the Second World War. There are no museums, no graves for the unknown "comfort woman", no education of future generations, and there have been no judgement days for the victims of
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in 1967, which was not organized by any government or international institution, the verdict of this trial was not legally binding. Its purpose was to gather testimony from victims, and then to try groups and individuals for rape or
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Japan's military sexual slavery and the rampant sexual violence and brutality that characterized its aggressive war.
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International Organizing Committee for the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal (2001-12-04).
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organised by Violence Against Women in War-Network Japan (VAWW-NET Japan). As with the
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The Women's International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan's Military Sexual Slavery
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The group met on December 8, 2000, and was adjourned on December 12, 2000.
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The two last paragraphs of the final judgement read as follows:
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On December 4, 2001, the group's final statement was issued in
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as part of a documentary on Japan's wartime sexual slavery.
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Japanese documentary on Imperial Japanese atrocities.
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Index

Tribunal
Russell Tribunal
sexual slavery
Yayori Matsui
The Hague
NHK
Comfort women
Japanese war crimes
World Courts of Women
Japanese Devils
Saburo Ienaga
World War II


"NHK censorship ruling reversed"
The Japan Times


戦時性暴力の被害者から変革の主体へ
Ritsumeikan University
the original
"Did NHK balk at covering war tribunal?"
"The Hague Final Judgment"
the original
Categories
Comfort women
2000 in Japan

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