Email this citation. John Darby welcomed the delegates to Northern Ireland and to the conference. Darby then introduced Dr. Morgan then introduced Dr. Carol Rittner. Morgan and Dr. Rittner collaborated on the planning and implementation of this conference. Following individual introductions, Dr. Rittner opened the conference with words from Susan Brownmiller, an American feminist and author of articles and books on the subject of sexual violence against women. The act that is played out upon her is a message passed between men.
Vivid proof of victory for one and loss and defeat for the other. Rittner stated that all of the whys would not be answered at this conference [for example, why do men think that they can use their sexual organs as weapons of war, etc. She challenged the delegates to remember not for the sake of the past, but for the sake of the future. Moderator: Dr.
Chung-Ok Yun Korea Ms. Kyung-Shim Kim Korea Mrs. Jeanne Ruff Australia Ms. Miki Veda Japan. She explained that her struggle has been to understand and make sense of what has happened.
And it was with that statement that Dr. Kim introduced the first panelist, Dr. Chung-Ok Yun. Targets were single girls from the age of years old. They were deceived by the government officers, policemen, brothel owners, and the like, and they were told that they would work at ammunition factories, field hospitals, construction sites, etc. Toward the end of the war, Japanese military policemen and soldiers joined in kidnapping girls as young as 14 years old as well as married women provided that they were not pregnant by force and through violent means.
Young girls were seduced and kidnapped prior to since the Kanto Troops were stationed in Manchuria in , but after about , this type of mobilization of Korean girls was carried out systematically according to Japanese army orders. There were several reasons why Korean girls were the primary targets for conscription.
