Military Comfort Women: Military Analysis

In this segment we are bringing attention to comfort women; the Japanese Army forced comfort women into sexual slavery during World War II. Comfort women have endured so much pain that they are requesting to receive an apology from Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe and they would like to receive an $8 million dollar compensational fund for the survivors. Many of the survivors believe that what they are asking for isn’t enough to pay for everything they have suffered. Christine Ahn states that this is travesty that the survivors are being silenced. Justice hasn’t been done for these women and they still haven’t received an apology from Japan. The survivors are receiving $187,000 however this money isn’t going directly to them. They are also asking for the removal of the bronze statue that is located in different parts of the world. The remaining of the survivors continues to strive for their voices to be heard. …show more content…
The goal of the Gellibrand bill is to have sexual assault cases transferred to an independent military prosecutor instead of keeping these cases in the military chain of command. There has been a 46 percent increase in sexual assault cases; one year 2,400 cases were reported however the following year 3,500 cases were reported. This bill will allow people to feel comfortable reporting if they have experienced sexual assault because the independent body will not disclose any information about the perpetrator nor the assailant. Passing this bill the goal is to have people report more crimes thus once the crimes are dealt with then the sexual crime rate will be