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>Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 13:05:34 -0500
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> From: PNEWS
> Subject: Re: Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
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> From: Telford001@aol.com
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> In a message dated 95-11-19 01:26:48 EST, odin@shadow.net (PNEWS) writes:
>
> >The alleged rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by three US soldiers on
> >September 4 in Okinawa has produced a public outcry against US bases in
> >Japan.
>
> But can we be sure that the immense public outcry has not been a result
> of the race of the accused? Two are black and one is a very dark
> hispanic. Certainly, as the US military in Japan has increased the
> number of black soldiers stationed in Japan, the Japanese public
> has tended toward increasing hostility.
>
> Joachim Carlo Santos Martillo Ajami
>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 11:46:14 -0500
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> From: PNEWS
> Subject: Re: Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
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> From:
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> I live in Japan. I would like to write a little bit about Okinawa. Main
> problem in Okinawa is military bases of the US and the discriminative
> policy to OKINAWA by Japanese government. During the WWII, many people in
> Okinawa was killed and forced to kill themselves and their own children,
> baby and women by Japanese army. Also Okinawa has tragic history since
> colonization by Japan in 19 century. So rape issue is very important for
> women in Okinawa but that is one of the important matters in Okinawa. Most
> of people in Okinawa who moves against the US bases in OKINAWA do not have
> any racist point of view. Rather the people want to unite all the minority
> because People in OKINAWA who called themselves as UCHINANCHU have been
> discriminated by the Japanese in main land whom UCHINANCHU called as
> YAMATONCHU. I think main problem in Okinawa is militarist and imperialist
> domination by the US and Japan. I forward following message as below form
> Foreign Bases Project.
>
> If you want to know about Okinawa, please check below WWW.
> http://www.inforyukyu.or.jp/~koj/rape/index-e.html
>
> ========forwar message from Foreign Bases Project=======
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> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 13:43:03 -1000 (HST)
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> From: monet@aloha.net (sam monet)
> Subject: Re: Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
> Cc: ogura@eco1.eco.toyama-u.ac.jp, ogura@eco1.eco.toyama-u.ac.jp
>
> The nuclear bombing of Japan by the Americans, not only once but twice,
> instantly killing over 400,000 men, women and children, was AN ATROCITY not
> matched by any Nazi death camp for efficiency in mass murder. This was and
> act of genodice by the American government. In the spring of 1945 Generals
> Dwight Eisenhower and Douglas MacArthur thought thought the bomb was
> unnecessary from a military point of view. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
> Staff. Adm. William Leahy concurred. President Trumen, as a young man in
> 1911 writing a letter to his future wife Bess stated:
>
> "I think one man is as good as another so long as he's honest and decent
> and not a nigger or a Chinaman. Uncle Will (Young, a Confederate
> veteran)...does hate Chinese and Japs. So do I. It is a race prejudice I
> guess. But I am of the opinion that Negroes ought to be in Africa, yellow
> men in Asia and white men in Europe and America.."
>
> The United States kills its own citizens who would oppose it. Most notably
> at Kent State (1967) and in Waco Texas (1994).
>
> The killing of 2,000,000 orientals in Vietnam by American
> foreigners...another act of genocide by the white dominated American
> government. The massacre at Mi Lai. Now called by former defense
> secretary McNamara "a mistake".
>
> today, in hawaii, the american occupying forces supress the rights and
> freedoms of the native hawaiians
>
> see:
>
> HAWAII RESOURCE LIBRARY
> Hawaiian History, Culture, Art, Myths, Legal Documents, Photos,
> Ethnoarchaeology, Genealogies, Religion, Biology, Biographies, Opinions, &
> much more
> http://hawaii-shopping.com./~sammonet/hrlhome.html
>
> aloha
>
> Sam Monet monet@aloha.net
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 19:20:15 -0500
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> From: PNEWS
> Subject: Re: Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
> To: Multiple recipients of list PNEWS-L
>
> From: Paul Heymont
>
> Well, I don't want this to be taken in any way as exculpation for either the
> sailors involved in the current incident, or for their commanders, or for
> the U.S. in general, but I also don't want to get into the sort of "my
> country: bad; all other countries: good" mentality that pops up here a lot.
> And since the other party in this particular example is the author of some
> of World War II's most hideous war crimes, including the forced prostitution
> of thousands upon thousands of Asian women for Japan's army, it seems
> particularly apt.
>
> Let's take out the country names here:
>
> Armies of conquest, urged on and abetted by their masters, have pillaged and
> raped wherever they have gone--in part because that is a successful way of
> terrorizing and defeating the enemy. Do you suppose for even one moment that
> this behavior is peculiar to America? This is the behavior of the lords of
> old and the capitalists of today.
>
>
>
>
> At 04:41 PM 11/20/95 -0500, you wrote:
> >From: sam monet
> >
> >americans have pillaged and raped wherever they have gone...only now the
> >news becomes public
> >
> >do not trust in treaties with the americans....native americans and
> >hawaiians had treaties with the americans....broken promises is all you
> >will get
> >
> >throw the americans out of japan...
> >
> >
> >
> >>/* Written by peg:greenleft in igc:greenleft.news */
> >>Title: Rape focuses anger at US bases in Japan
> >>
> >>By Eva Cheng
> >
> >
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