An overlooked issue in much of the discussion of comfort women is whether former comfort women in allied and occupied countries had adequate freedom to decide whether to accept compensation and/or assistance from the Asian Women's Fund. It appears that they were intimidated in South Korea not to accept assistance from the Asian Women's Fund. Despite the financial generosity of the South Korean government's own fund for former comfort women, the South Korean government and NGOs used it and other means as instruments of pressure and intimidation against Korean women who otherwise would have sought assistance from the Asian Women's Fund in 1997. 慰安婦に関する議論で、これまで見落とされてきた問題は、元慰安婦達がアジア女性基金から 補償や援助を受ける際に、自分の意思で自由に決定出来たかどうかだ。 韓国においてはアジア女性基金からの援助を受けない様に脅迫が行われていたようだ。 韓国自身の基金による元慰安婦達への援助は一見寛大に見えるが、韓国政府は この基金や他の手段を用いてアジア女性基金から援助を受けようとする韓国女性達へ脅迫を行っていた。 慰安婦問題 米議会調査局報告書(2007年) http://japanfocus.org/data/CRS%20CW%20Report%20April%2007.pdf
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