Taiwan's "Grandma" sad song: Who is soothing historical scars?

Xinhua News Agency, Taipei, August 14th (Reporter Qi Xianghui Yue Xitong) In a humble old house in the old city of Taipei, he took the fifth floor, and the Taiwan's "comfort woman" memorial hall "Grandma's home" came into view. This small memorial is the first and only "comfort woman" memorial in Taiwan. It retains the historical data of 59 "comfort women" known in Taiwan.

The exhibition hall is not large. The partition exhibits 5042 information, photos, images, and books such as "comfort women" in Taiwan. 730 pieces.

The Taipei Women's Rescue Foundation (hereinafter referred to as the "Women's Aid"), which operates this memorial, has long been engaged in the rescue of the victim of the "comfort women". The "comfort woman" surviving in Taiwan is called "Grandma". First, when the historical facts of the "comfort women" in Taiwan in the 1990s were exposed, these survivors were already 60 or 70 years old. Taiwan society called this age. Women of the layers are "Grandma"; on the other hand, the Women's Aid Association also wants to remind the public that they are both victims of Japanese militarism and ordinary Taiwan "grandma". They have the gentle and strong traits of Taiwanese women in their early years.

According to the Women's Aid Association estimates, during the Second World War, there were nearly 2,000 "comfort women" victims in Taiwan, and they were finally willing to face up to only 59. In December 2020, the "Grandma's Family" released the news that a nearly centenar "comfort woman" died of illness in early November of that year. At this point, the only last person in Taiwan is known to "comfort women".

Photographer Huang Ziming has shot Taiwan's "comfort women" since 2000. He used the camera to record the "Female International War Court" organized by Taiwan's "comfort women" to Tokyo to participate in multiple "comfort women" support groups, and photos of their daily life. The works of him and the other two photographers were collected as a photography collection of "Taiwan 'Survivor Image Records of the Survivor of Taiwan", which became important historical data. It was also placed in the memorial hall for people to read.

They filmed the pain and anger of the "Grandma", and recorded the farewell to "Grandma" after another. Huang Ziming said that when the "Grandma" began to shoot in 2000, more than 30 "comfort women" in Taiwan were alive. These years, they watched them died of "very emotion". He and many "grandma" have a good relationship, including the death of Lin Shenzhong, Manchu and Lotus, etc., who have passed away.

The memorial hall restores the history of brave and disclosure of identity in Lin Shenzhong, Manmei, Lotus, etc. The blood tears that were coaxed by the Japanese troops were coaxed by the Japanese army, which made people unbearable; photos of scars on their bodies were shuddering.

Not only was scarred, the "comfort women" were more traumatious in their hearts. The Japanese government has not made a deep reflection and gratitude to the world and victims on the issue of "comfort women", and does not acknowledge the state responsibility of the "comfort woman" issue. Aggression history.

There is only one last known "comfort woman" left in Taiwan. Huang Ziming believes that the Japanese government still wants to "drag it to change" and "drag the parties for a few years to die. Discussed".

August 14th is the world's "comfort woman" anniversary. The Women's Aid Association recently held a press conference to call on the painful memories of "comfort women" from all walks of life, and put this history into the history museum, curriculum and public books.

A online survey shows that more than half of the people in Taiwan have not been impressed, or they have never been in contact with the history of "comfort women" in class; at the same time, up to 90 % of the people support this history into the historical museum and textbooks.

Ye Delan, chairman of the Women's Aid Association, said that he hoped that the collective memory and pain of these "grandma" in Taiwan could be written into textbooks, so that the world will always be remembered.

【Edit: Zhu Yanjing】

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