“위안부는 돈 잘 번 매춘부” 막장 서명운동 ‘충격’

미국의 온라인 서명사이트에서 “위안부는 돈을 잘 번 매춘부일 뿐 아니라, 미 육군에도 서비스를 했다”는 서명이 올라와 논란입니다. 3657명이 서명을 마친 상태인데요. 개정된 캘리포니아 역사교과서에 이런 내용을 넣으라는 압박을 가하고 있습니다.

게시자인 ‘Grass Roots Action about fabricted comfort women issue’는 영어와 일본어로 2주 전 이 같은 청원 게시물을 올렸습니다. 내용에는 미전쟁정보사무소(USOWI)의 보고서를 인용해 “27명의 일본포로와 20명의 위안부 여성들이 돈을 잘 번 창녀였으며 일본 군대가 위안소에서 이들을 군인들에 준해서 잘 대해주고 위생과 건강을 책임졌다”고 주장하고 있는데요.

이 같은 주장은 캘리포니아 교육국이 2017년부터 10학년 역사교과서에 위안부 문제를 나치의 유태인학살 바로 앞에 기술할 것으로 알려진 것에 맞불을 놓은 것입니다. 하지만 이 같은 주장 역시 짜깁기에 불과합니다. 뉴시스는 서명사이트 개설 사실을 단독보도하며 “위안부 여성들이 대부분 미성년자로 속아서 왔으며 이 같은 일을 하지 않았다고 미군 보고서에 나와있다”고 밝혔습니다.

한편 한인단체들의 온라인 청원사이트(www.comfortwomenpetition.org)에는 일제의 위안부 만행을 고발한 김순덕 할머니의 그림이 올라와 있습니다.

*서명 원어 전문

Write “Comfort Women were well paid prostitutes, sold their service to US Army as well”Concerning the rows from 913th to 919th in page 469 of Chapter 15, Grade Ten ? World History, Culture, and Geography: The Modern World,

1, We demand to add,

“Comfort Women were well paid prostitutes” and

“Comfort women sold their service to US Army as well”.

US Army and Allied Army issued many research reports, interrogation reports and bulletins about Japanese Army including Brothel section from 1942 to 1945.

Concretely, Allied Translator and Interpreter Section South West Pacific Area (ATIS), South East Asia Translator and Interrogation Center (SEATIC) and United States Office of War Information (USOWI) issued interrogation reports of 27 Japanese war prisoners and of others, an interrogation report of 20 Korean comfort women (Japanese Prisoner of War Interrogation Report No. 49) and of two owners of comfort station, one bulletin, one current translations and two research reports.

These reports explain more or less that comfort women were well paid prostitutes and that Japanese Army regulated comfort stations for the hygiene, the health and the dignity of comfort women as well as soldiers.

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On the other hand , after The War, for some reasons as well as by request of GHQ (General Head Quarter) Army of Occupation of Japan (mainly composed of USA Army),comfort women station for Allied Army in Japan continued to exist for a certain period under the name of Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA) ).

RAA for Allied Army was established and managed by Japanese government almost same as for Japanese army at the wartime with regard to this point.

2, We also express a strong suspicion and offense about the order of the content from the 913th row to 933th row.

First, why does the comfort women issue appear suddenly in this part?

Second, why are the drops of atomic bomb and the holocaust put right after the comfort women issue?

The drops of atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and The Holocaust are crimes to human being and historical facts nobody can deny.

We suspect you intend to suggest by this order to students that The Drops of atomic bomb are justified by The Comfort Women Issue and that The Comfort Women Issue is a horrible crime comparable to The Holocaust.

School textbook is not propaganda advertisement.

（要約）

米軍レポ?トにあるように「慰安婦は高給を得ていた賣春婦」であり、「米軍も慰安婦を利用していた」ことを書いてください。

カリフォルニア州１０年生用歷史文化地理敎科書１５章、「現代世界」４６９ペ?ジ９１３行から９１９行の記述について要望します。

１、「慰安婦は高給を得ていた賣春婦であったこと」「米軍も慰安婦を利用した」ことを加筆してください。

米軍や連合軍は１９４２年から１９４５年の間、慰安婦についての多くの調査資料や?言記錄を殘しています。ＡＴＩＳ，　ＳＥＡＴＥＣ，　ＵＳＯＷＩといった機關が２７人の日本人捕虜、２０人の朝鮮人慰安婦（捕虜尋問調書４９?）、２人の慰安施設?營者等に對する尋問レポ?ト、二つの調査報告書、機關誌に「日本軍の賣春關係」を記錄しています。それらには多かれ少なかれ、慰安婦は高給を得ていた賣春婦であり、日本軍は衛生管理や兵士と慰安婦の健康と尊嚴のためきびしく規則を設けていたことが說明されています。

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他方、戰後ＧＨＱの要望もあり、Recreation and Amusement Association (RAA) )という名の下に、占領合軍用慰安婦施設が設けられました。このＲＡＡは日本政府が設立管理したもので、この点に關しては戰時中の日本軍用慰安婦施設とほぼ同じものでした。

２、次に９１３行から９３３行にある內容の記述順序について强い疑念と不快を表明します。

まず、なぜここに慰安婦問題がいきなり記述されているのでしょうか。

そして、なぜそのすぐ後に、廣島?長崎への原爆投下、ユダヤ人ホロコ?ストが記述されているのでしょうか。

２都市に對する原爆投下、ユダヤ人ホロコ?ストは何人も否定できない人類に對する犯罪であり歷史的事實です。

こういった記述順によって、慰安婦問題はホロコ?ストに匹敵する犯罪であり、原爆投下を正?化するものであることを生徒に暗示しいるように思えてなりません。

敎科書はプロパガンダではありません。

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