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Japan compensates sex slaves
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TOKYO (AP) — A $1 billion
“friendship” fund to help atone
for wartime wrongdoing will be
established, the government an
nounced Wednesday. But women
who were sexually enslaved by
the Japanese military want di
rect compensation instead.
Prime Minister Tomiichi Mu-
rayama said in a statement that
the money, to be spent over 10
years starting in 1995, would fi
nance projects including wom
en’s centers, cultural exchanges
and historical research on
Japan’s role in World War II.
“It is imperative for us Japan
ese to look squarely to our histo
ry with the peoples of neighbor
ing Asia,” said the prime minis
ter, who returned a day earlier
from a tour of several Southeast
Asian countries brutalized by
Japan during the war.
But the Japanese plan does
not call for any direct official
payments to individual Asian
war victims, including forced la
borers and women forced to
serve in front-line brothels run
by the Imperial Army.
Japan maintains that com
pensation issues were settled in
postwar treaties. It has long re
sisted any direct reparations,
fearing that would open the
door to endless legal battles and
huge payments.
Groups working on behalf of
the former sex slaves denounced
the plan as inadequate.
A lawyer for Filipino sex
slaves today said the fund would
be unacceptable.
“The admission of guilt and
apology on the part of the Japan
ese policy makers and the Japan
ese government carries with it the
obligation to honor its commit
ments to pay direct compensation
to the victims under the Geneva
Convention of 1907,” lawyer
Romeo Capulong said in Manila.
In the statement, which was
read by Igarashi, the prime min
ister pledged to work for resolu
tion of other war-related issues,
including the plight of Koreans
left behind on Russia’s Sakhalin
Island and Taiwanese who were
conscripted as unpaid Japanest
soldiers. But no specifit
timetable was given.
One proposal that has been
floated in government circles has
been the creation of a private fund
to make payments to individuals
such as former forced laborers ami
sex slaves. Contributors would in
elude companies that used slave
labor during the war.
The issue of compensation fe
former sex slaves has been ut
der study since last summer,
when the government admitted
for the first time that as man;
as 200,000 Asian women, most!
Koreans, had been forced to pro
vide sex for Japanese soldiers
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Dominicans tighten Haiti’s noose
New economic sanctions focus
on halting of illegal fuel flow
MONTE CRISTI, Dominican
Republic (AP) — The Clinton
administration keeps saying its
patience with Haiti’s military
rulers is running out, that the
time to act has almost arrived.
But from here, near the Haiti-
Dominican border, the indica
tions are that an American de
cision to invade is anything but
imminent.
A new effort is getting under
way here to tighten the economic
sanctions noose on Haiti by slow
ing the flow of fuel products being
smuggled across the border.
Reporters who flew over a
northern sector of the border on
Tuesday with U.S. officials saw
hundreds of Dominicans hauling
gasoline unimpeded across the
wriggling Massacre River that
separates the two countries.
Haitians waved empty gallon
jugs at a passing helicopter.
Monte Cristi, a small town on
the northern coast not far from
where the Santa Maria, Christo
pher Columbus’ flagship, sank
on Christmas Day 1492, is head
quarters for the U.S. part of the
multinational effort to seal off
the border.
Signs that a potential Ameri
can-led invasion of Haiti may
be weeks or months away also
were apparent Tuesday when
senior Clinton administration
officials attended a meeting of
Caribbean Community foreign
and defense ministers.
The meeting at Kingston, Ja
maica, produced a pledge by the
Caribbean countries to field a
contingent of 266 soldiers to act
as peacekeepers in the initial
stage of a potential American-
led invasion of Haiti. On paper,
the Caribbean soldiers would
be part of the invasion force,
but in reality they would not be
combatants; they would enter
the picture once the invasion
took hold.
John Deutch, the deputy U.S.
secretary of defense, said after
the Kingston meeting that it was
now inevitable that some form of
military intervention would take
place in Haiti — either to oust
Army chief Raoul Cedras, or, if
he left peacefully, to stabilize the
country and retrain the civilian
police forces.
Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados
and Belize committed to joining
the coalition, but Guyana, Ba
hamas and Antigua indicated
they needed more time to make
a decision. All seven said they
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