http://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-rejects-comfort-woman-statue-072738876.html
이 기사는 어제 싱가폴 야후에서 나온, 한국 위안부 단체가 싱가폴 정부에게 위안부비를 세우자는 제안을 거절했다는 기사입니다. 하지만, 이 가사에서 제가 참을수 없었던 것은, 이 기사에 댓글들이였습니다.
대부분 댓글은 한국에 대한 악감정, 일본에 대한 동점심, 그리고 "역사는 역사일뿐 과거를 잊어라"하는 댓글들이였습니다. 물론, 이 들 중엔, 일본이 쓴 댓글도 있겠지만 (싱가폴에있는 일본인구가 상당히 많습니다), 하지만 싱가폴인들도 많습니다. 특히 중국인들은, 일본이 싱가폴을 점령했을때, 다대수 중국인들을 창이 (Changi) 지역으로 옴기며, 집단학살을 하거나, 싱가폴인 여성들을 위안부로 이용했습니다....
이걸 그냥 볼 수만 없어서, 올립니다.
Singapore rejects 'comfort woman' statue
AFP News – Wed, Jan 30, 2013EmailPrintSingapore said Wednesday it has rejected plans by South Korean activists to erect a statue in the city-state commemorating women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II.
The culture ministry denied claims by the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery that there had been talks about plans to put up such a statue.
"This is not accurate," the ministry told AFP in an emailed statement.
"There are no ongoing meetings or discussions between the Singapore government and the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery on this issue. Nor will we allow such a statue to be erected in Singapore."
In Seoul last week the activists unveiled plans to put up the statues -- representing "comfort women" forced into Japanese military brothels during the war -- in a number of Asian countries starting with Singapore.
They also said they had held talks with Singapore authorities and added that a delegation would be sent to the city-state to finalise the plans.
The South Korean group was behind the bronze statue of a young girl with a butterfly settled on her shoulder that was erected in 2011 opposite the Japanese embassy in Seoul.
Other statues were also planned in China, Malaysia and Indonesia, the group had said.
Historians say about 200,000 women from Korea, China, the Philippines and other countries were drafted to work in Japanese army brothels in Asia.
Singapore, which was then a British colony, was among several Asian countries occupied by Japan during the war.
