PLEASE read request at foot of page RAPISTS' CHARTER A court in Japan yesterday rejected compensation claims by two Chinese women who say they were repeatedly raped as teenagers in a Japanese military brothel in China more than 60 years ago. Guo Xicui and Hou Qiaolian were appealing against a decision not to grant them 46m yen (£230,000) in compensation. The women said that in 1942 soldiers abducted them and forced them to be "comfort women", as they were euphemistically called. The women were then 15 and 13 years old. The judge acknowledged that the pair had suffered "considerable physical and mental damage". But he said China waived its right to seek compensation under a 1952 treaty, adding that Japan's civil code 20-year limit on such claims had expired. Justin McCurry in Tokyo Saturday March 19, 2005 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,7369,1441346,00.html --------------------------------------------------- "Perceptions" note: Do men in suits (in China) have the right to dispose of the right of women citizens not to be sex-slaves? Do men in suits (in Japan) have the right to refuse truth and justice to women who've been abused by multiple rape and multiple assault? Does a judge (a man in a suit) have the right to cover-up a heinous crime against women? NO! I think everything about the ruling was corrupt - the `waiving' of women's rights (waived by men-in-suits) was corrupt - the time limitation on such rights was corrupt - [until now the women have been denied any right to complain - men-in-suits have suppressed complaint] - the holding of the trial in a defensively self-interested country was corrupt. The women's complaint should be heard in an international court, by a jury of women, not by a self-interested male judge. [see "laworjustice" in Google] PLEASE protest this unjust and evil ruling, maybe write to newspaper, women's rights-group, any website willing to print, even a politician. Ray D --------------------------------------------------- FURTHER REFERENCES GO - "search perceptions" - in SEARCH-ENGINE file-ID www.perceptions.couk.com/bentmen.txt