BEIJING, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) — The proof of pressured conscription of “comfort women” by Japan’s militarists is ironclad that brooks no denial, and China is significantly involved with Japan’s misguided angle and dishonest practices concerning its historical past of aggression, a overseas ministry spokesperson mentioned on Wednesday.
A working group on discrimination in opposition to ladies and ladies and different particular procedures of the UN Human Rights Council lately despatched a joint letter to the Japanese authorities, expressing critical issues over Japan’s failure to make sure entry to fact and reparations for “comfort women” survivors.
In response to a associated question, spokesperson Lin Jian mentioned that the pressured recruitment of “comfort women” was a critical crime of Japanese militarism that severely trampled on the rights of the victims, including that the proof of the crime is ironclad and simple, and there’s robust outrage within the worldwide group over the crime.
He mentioned that sure forces in Japan have lengthy tried to disclaim and even distort the historical past of the pressured recruitment of “comfort women.”
Japan must mirror deeply on its historical past of aggression and the disastrous struggling inflicted on the victims by its crime, deal with the difficulty of “comfort women” and different points left over from its historical past correctly and with an trustworthy, accountable angle, and earn the belief of its Asian neighbors and the worldwide group by way of concrete actions, Lin mentioned.