In an article on Politics Home, former UK Home Secretary Jack Straw writes about South Korea’s need to investigate rape and other atrocities inflicted by South Korean soldiers upon women during the Vietnam War.
Despite Korea’s history of Japanese military sexual slavery, successive South Korean governments have refused to investigate their own military’s crimes against women.
Tomorrow, Jack Straw will attend a public unveiling, at Church House in Westminster, of a statue commissioned to commemorate Vietnamese victims of these atrocities, and, it’s said, all women subjected to sexual violence in conflict.
Links:
- The UK is taking a leading role in the fight against sexual violence, but historic crimes should not be forgotten, Jack Straw, Politics Home, 10 June 2019
- Justice for Lai Dai Han website
- Letter from Justice for Lai Dai Han to Prime Minister Theresa May, 10 June 2019
- Letter from Justice for Lai Dai Han to President Moon Jae-in, 28 May 2019