South Korea/Japan: “Comfort Women” as a Political Football?

The tragic case of the Japan’s WWII sex slaves

By Jean-Pierre Lehmann, March 5, 2016 | The Globalist | http://www.theglobalist.com/south-korea-japan-comfort-women/

Takeaways

• Rape was only declared a crime against humanity in the late 1990s during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
• Ignoring the women affected by violence and reaching an arms’ length government agreement about it is cruel.
• Humanity, not realpolitik, should guide any resolution between Japan, Korea on "comfort women".

The “comfort women” issue has been a bone of acute contention between Seoul and Tokyo for many years. On December 28, 2015, the two governments reached an agreement that is meant to “solve” the issue once and for all.
The agreement, however, was hammered out by the two countries’ foreign ministries without any consultation with or indeed any form of reaching out to the few surviving former comfort women.

No humanity, just realpolitik

http://www.theglobalist.com/south-korea-japan-comfort-women/