Petitie #222: Visits to the Yasukuni Shrine hurt the war victims.

Petitie #222: Visits to the Yasukuni Shrine hurt the war victims.

Excellency,

It hurts the victims of the Japanese military war terror that ministers of your government and members of the Japanese parliament continue to visit the Yasukuni Shrine allegedly honoring Japan’s war dead. As you know among the dead honored by the visits are 14 former World War Two war leaders convicted of war crimes. This time you did not visit the Yasukuni shrine, but you paid for equipment made of wood and fabric, bearing you name and title, decorating an altar at the Yasukuni Shrine. Indirectly thus you approved the Yasukuni visits by your party members. These visits hurt. They deny Japan’s vicious and brutal military history and demonstrate that Japan did not learn from its past. How often do we have to tell you this? Excuses are meaningless as long as you approve of these insults. (meer…)

Verslag van de 22ste sessie van de Human Rights Council bij de United Nations, Genève

Zoals al zo vele jaren is onze vertegenwoordiger in Genève José Adriaansen-Smit namens JES aanwezig geweest bij de gehele 22ste sessie. Ik, Brigitte van Halder, bestuurslid Internationale betrekkingen, ben er 3 dagen naar toe gegaan om zo veel mogelijk mensen te spreken. (meer…)