[한 표 부탁드립니다] 위안부 결의안 폐기가 되어가고 있습니다

마일리지와 관련없는 글이지만, 읽어주시면 감사하겠습니다. 

이번에 한국 방문때, 위안부 마을 근처를 지나가는 일이 있었습니다. 안타까운 마음이 드는데, 제가 할 수 있는 것이 없더군요. 

전쟁을 모르고 태어난 세대이지만, 부모님 세대를 생각하며 백안관에 위안부 결의안 폐기에 서명 부탁드립니다. 

 현재 1만 표가 더 필요합니다.  

Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:30 PM
Subject: 미 의회 일 위안부 결의안 폐기와 관련

동포여러분
 
샌프란시스코 지역 한인회에서 긴급요청을 보내드립니다.
미 의회 일 위안부  결의안 폐기와 관련, 시급한  보도가 필요합니다. 
7월13일까지 18,184명 청원이 더 필요하며 그렇지 않으면  폐기됩니다.
 협조를 부탁드립니다.
 
샌프란시스코 지역 한인회 사무국에서
 
<일 위안부 미 의회 결의안 폐기와 관련, 백악관 청원, 일본은 33,000, 한국은 6,800명>
-7월13일까지 18,184명 청원이 더 필요   폐기 위기-서둘러야
일본인들이 미국 백악관에 위안부 기념탑을 없애고 거짓고소, 비난(false accusation)과 흉괘로 만들어진 위안부에 대한 이슈에 대해 속지말고 수십년간 일본인들을 망신시킨 일이 다시는 일어나지 않케 해달라고 지난 5월 10일 청원 한달 만(약3주만에)에 오바마 행정부가 반드시공식적 답변을 해야하는 25,000 청원서가 등록이 되었으며 현재 시간 32, 629명이 페티션을 신청하였다. 
정말 문제는, 한국인들이 이 사실을 아는지 모르는지 또는 무관심한지? 위안부 기념탑이 존속해야 하며 미국 의회가 결정한 위안부에 대한내용이 지켜져야 한다는 신청서(페티션)에는 6,806 건에 지나지 않아 큰 염려가 된다.
 
7월13일까지 한국인 신청이 최소 25,000 건이 넘어야 오바마 행정부가 이 안을 받아들여 공식적 입장을 밝히는데, 현재 우리는 6,806 표에 지나지 않고 있으며 내일 모레(7월13일)까지 18,184 표가 있어야 오바마 행정부가 이를 받아들인다. 
일본인들은 극우파 소수의 국회의원들과 이를 지지하는 일본인들이 일본에서도 페티션을 신청하고 있다고 한다. 
전세계에 흩어져 있는 우리 한인들에게 꼭 알려야 하는 사항입니다. 
꼭 아래 사이트에 가셔서 어카운트를 만드신 후 신청을 하셔야합니다. 본인의 신청접수 번호를 꼭 기억하시기 바란다. 
미국 국회는 지난 2007년 7월30일 미국회의원 마이클혼다 의원과 167명의 의원이 공동제안한 안건을 만장일치로 통과시켰다. 
일본은 1930년대 제2차대전 당시 식민지와 아시아 남태평양 연안에서  천황군대에 의해  강제적으로  젊은 여성들을 성적 노예로 삼은것(위안부로 알려진)에 대해  공식적으로 인식하고 사죄를 해야한다고 미국 의회는 밝혔다.

아울러  5가지의 항목으로 일본은 전쟁범으로 여성을 성적 노예로 삼은 것에 대해 공식적 사죄와 역사적 책임, 일본수상의 공식적 사죄, 성적범죄와 성거래업에 대한 어떤 반박도 인정치않으며, 국제사회로부터 위안부에 대한 존경을 표하며 현재와 미래 세대들에게 이러한 범죄에 대한 교육을 해야 한다"고 밝혔다.

문제는 지난 달 미국 뉴저지 파리새이드 공원에 세워진 위안부 기념 동상을 철거하기 위해 일본대표들과 뉴욕일본총영사관에서 파리새이드 시정부에 위안부 동상을 철거하면 일본 정부가 그 댓가를 무상으로 지원하겠다는 제안을 했으나 이는 거절되었으며 시정부는 숭고한 위안부 기념상을 지키겠다고 선언했다. 정말 다행이며 우리 모두가 이 시정부의 공무원들의 훌륭한 처사에 칭찬과 격려를 반드시 보내야 한다고 생각한다. 
참고로 위안부 기념탑을 철거해야 한다는 사이트와 지켜야한다는 사이트는

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remo ve-monument-and-not-support-any-international-harassment-related-issue-against-people-japan/FPfs7p0Q
  
위의 사이트를 클릭해 보시면, 현재 일본인들은 백악관에 32,626 명이 신청을 했다. 
반면 우리 한인들이 백악관에 신청한 수는 6,761명이 신청했으며 신청자가 18,639명이 더 필요하다.

꼭 이 사이트에 들어가셔서 어카운트를 여시고 꼭 신청해 주시기 바란다. 
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/preserve-comfort-women-monument-symbol-bloody-history-korea-during-japanese-colonization/w77LpbGG

Title: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II.

Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the government of Japan should: (1) formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young women into sexual slavery (comfort women) during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II; (2) have this official and public apology presented by the Prime Minister of Japan; (3) refute any claims that the sexual enslavement and trafficking of the comfort women never occurred; and (4) educate current and future generations about this crime while following the international community's recommendations with respect to the comfort women.

Dear colleagues and friends,
Please read, this is a very important issue if you are Korean and American.
H.RES.121 
Latest Title: A resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young women into sexual slavery, known to the world as "comfort women", during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II. 
Sponsor: Rep Honda, Michael M. [CA-15] (introduced 1/31/2007)      Cosponsors (167) 
Latest Major Action: 7/30/2007 Passed/agreed to in House. Status: On motion to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. 
Latest Action: 7/30/2007 The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.

SUMMARY AS OF: 
7/30/2007--Passed House amended.    (There is 1 other summary)
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the government of Japan should: (1) formally acknowledge, apologize, and accept historical responsibility for its Imperial Armed Force's coercion of young women into sexual slavery (comfort women) during its colonial and wartime occupation of Asia and the Pacific Islands from the 1930s through the duration of World War II; (2) have this official and public apology presented by the Prime Minister of Japan; (3) refute any claims that the sexual enslavement and trafficking of the comfort women never occurred; and (4) educate current and future generations about this crime while following the international community's recommendations with respect to the comfort women.
As you have read above, even though the United States Congress had passed the resolution, Japanese sympathizers have put through a petition to the White House's web site as followed:
Remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan.
False accusations regarding the South Korean comfort women issue have disgraced the people of Japan for decades. Over the past few years it has come to light that many of the original charges were false or completely fabricated.
Yet despite this new information, the United States continues to lend credence to the original false charges by memorializing the comfort women in a monument in New Jersey and a street name in New York. Not only is this perpetrating historical untruths, but it also leads unnecessary racial conflict and suffering of people of Japanese ancestry.
We strongly request President Obama to remove the monument and not to support any international harassment related to this issue against the people of Japan.
Not only is it an outrage for them to deny what their countrymen did, it is a cowardly attempt at hiding the shame of the Japanese people.

We need your support; please go to the site below, create an account and sign the petition-in-opposition to keep the monument in memorial of this war crime.  
The deadline for the petition to be recognized by the White House is July 13, 2012. 
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/preserve-comfort-women-monument-symbol-bloody-history-korea-during-japanese-colonization/w77LpbGG  
Preserve comfort women monument as a symbol of bloody history of Korea during Japanese colonization
During Japanese colonization, approximately 50,000~200,000 Korean women, according to most scholars, have been tricked, kidnapped, and were forced to leave their country to become military sexual slaves by Japan. In many cases, women were lured with promises of work in factories. Only 68 of the women managed to return to Korea.
From 1992 until now, every Wednesday, the comfort women of Korea are holding a demonstration in front of the Japanese embassy for governmental reparations, formal and individual apologies, yet Japan replies with silence, ignorance and distortion of their brutal history.
We strongly urge President Obama not to remove the monument, and let Japan’s crime be the lesson of the history not only to the international society but also to the people of Japanese posterity.(끝)

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/preserve-comfort-women-monument-symbol-bloody-history-korea-during-japanese-colonization/w77LpbGG