JHON n°8 LAURA CHEGARAY (cover) ADRIENS ADÈLE BORY FRANÇOIS BUNEL SOPHIE COUSIN POSTICS FOE ROBERT GAILLARD JONAS FOR JHON COMFORT WOMEN
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François Bunel
PO BOX 4 BETHLEHEM PA 18016 USA http://www.foe.firstpress.net
My involvement in the punk and hardcore music community began in 1979 when a
friend gave me a mix tape of punk and new wave bands. By 1982 I had my own radio show specializing in hardcore punk from around the world. I also began going to punk concerts in Philadelphia, New York, New Jersey and in my home scene the Lehigh Valley, which includes the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and the surrounding communities in Pennsylvania. Along with a love of the music, I enjoyed the artistic talent in the flyers that advertised the concerts. I always enjoyed the ability in others who could draw or paint as I did not have that talent. Today, I am glad I kept all of those flyers as they bring back memories of concerts long forgotten. In 1984, I started FOE fanzine. My love of music and writing about music went well with the artistic talents of my friends whose artwork graced the covers of the fanzine. FOE records started in the early 1990s and I again used the talents of my friends for not only the music but also for the artwork that went along with the music. Along the way I played in many bands including Mugface, Forthright, Jessica, The Ick, Mr. Yuk, and Styrchnine and the Rat Traps. The music of those bands and many other area bands appear on the website. I have also had hundreds of articles published in the local newspaper, the Morning Call and have taken thousands of photos at the concerts I have attended. I am working on putting those articles together to include on the website. I have also included the photos I have taken and the photos my friends have taken on the website. FOE the website is a work in progress. As I gather and document the art I have used and collected, the music I have helped produce and perform, the articles I have written and the interviews I have completed the website will continue to grow. I hope you enjoy the site as much as I have in gathering these experiences over the last 26 years! Frank FOE
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FOE N°3 ARTIST - SUE COYLE 1985
FOE N°4 ARTIST - SUE COYLE 1985
FOE N°22 ARTIST - DAVE GARTEN 1993
FOE N°29 ARTIST - SCOTT GURSKY 1995
FOE N°31 ARTIST - JACK PRICE 1995
FOE n°33 ARTIST - DAVE GROIS 1996
-----------------------HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF GIG FLYERS -----------------------PLEASE REALIZE, THESE ARE ARCHIVED FLYERS, AS IN OLD, SO DON’T THINK THESE SHOWS ARE HAPPENING ON THE DATES APPEARING ON THE FLYERS. FLYERS ARE FROM FRANK FOE’S COLLECTION, WITH ADDITIONAL SUBMISSIONS FROM ERIC EASYSUBCULTURE, WILBERGRIS AND MIKE DAVIDSON.
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-----------------------HISTORICAL ARCHIVE OF PHOTOS FROM THOSE SHOWS AND LV’S PAST.
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DES CHOSES ROBERT GAILLARD
COMMENT ON DEVIENT AVIATEUR. 25/01/2005
27/10/2003
18/12/2003
02/12/2003
11/11/2003
LE CERVEAU DE LA FEMME EST MOINS LOURD QUE CELUI DE L’HOMME, MAIS CELA NE PROUVE RIEN ÉTANT DONNÉ QUE LE POIDS DU CORPS EST ÉGALEMENT PLUS PETIT. 01/12/2004
08/10/2003
LA PLUPART DES CHOSES DÉSAGRÉABLES DANS LA VIE DES GENS SONT DUES EN PARTIE À LA MALCHANCE. 22/09/2004
C’EST TRÈS DIFFICILE DE NE PENSER À RIEN.. 14/12/2004
NE PERMETTEZ PAS AUX SUBTERFUGES DE VOUS INDUIRE EN ERREUR ET VOUS CONSERVEREZ L’INTÉGRITÉ DE VOTRE SENS ESTHÉTIQUE. 25/01/2005
REVENONS AUX FONDAMENTAUX. 19/02/2005
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A lthough It has been more than 50 years since the end of The World War II and Illegal Occupation of Korea by Japan, you can see still agonized victims of Japan’s most brutal War crime, Military Sexual Slavery, holding A peaceful Protest in front of Japanese Embassy in Seoul on 12 a.m, every wednesday from 1992. These Grandmothers and citizens tell the world that Sexual Violence against Women and Girls in armed-conflicts is a Crime Against Humanity that must be punished and redressed. The victims of MSS(military sexual slavery) are still striving to get back their human dignity as They make Japan to do his legal responsbility. I want to show you what had been done to these women and what these women want to get. Moreover, I would like to share the meaning of human value through the discussion on this issue altogether. -------------------------------------------Japan’s Mass Rape and Sexual Enslavement -------------------------------------------The Establishment of comfort Stations and Enslavement of so-called comfort women. Beginning in 1931 and continuing throughout the duration of the invasion of Asia and Pacific islands by Japan, the Japanese government enslaved approximately 200,000 Asian girls from Korea, China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines and Holland for sexual purposes, and established their brothels over the territories and battles occupied and stationed by the Japanese imperial army. During that time, women were enslaved by force, coercion, abduction and deception into sexual slavery. These women and brothels were called euphemistically comfort women and comfort stations by the Japanese imperial army. But Gay McDougall, an investigator of United Nations, clearly defined comfort women as military sexual slavery and comfort stations as rape centers in her official report to the UN. The First comfort station was set up in Shanghai, China to prevent rapes of Chinese women by the Japanese troops as the hostility of the Chinese against Japan rose up dramatically due to the massacre of Nanking here, Japanese troops committed genocide against all the citizens of Nanking, the former capital of China. According to Gay McDougall’s report to UN, « the constitution of military sexual slavery, the comfort women was planed
systematically and carefully, ordered and carried out by the government of Japan.» Survivors recall their experience as being forced to serve sex to the Japanese troops, as «When people talk about a living hell, this is exactly what they mean». As testimonies made by survivors indicate, their lives as being forced to serve sex to Japanese imperial army at comfort stations were unbearable daily pain. Once they were enslaved and sent to comfort stations, they were confined in small rooms and were daily raped by the Japanese troops by some accounts by 30 or 40 men. They were treated like a military supply given from the Emperor of Japan rather than human beings. For examples, these women were regularly given medical checks by Japanese doctors in order to prevent venereal infection, were generally beaten, tortured and killed off if they resisted, and were also under hunger and lack of medical care. When these women became pregnant and unable to serve the soldiers because of venereal infection, they got abortions by force and were simply killed in many cases. These soldiers enjoyed this brutal system of sexual enslavement, calling their condoms Attack No 1. At some comfort stations, the women were given Japanese names and required to speak only Japanese and entertain the men with Japanese songs. Commonly Korean comfort women were referred to as chosenppi (Korean vagina) or other derogatory Japanese terms for Koreans by the Japanese troops -------------------------------------------The Women’s Daily Ordeal --------------------------------------------
When people talk about a living hell, this is exactly what they mean. By the end of World War II, the use of comfort women was a widespread and regular phenomenon throughout Japan-controlled East Asia.The women held in sexual slavery were raped repeatedly - by some accounts by 30 or 40 men each day - day after day. Torture and beatings were common. The women existed under miserable conditions, living in tiny cubicles, and often with inadequate food and medical care. For some, the servitude lasted as long as eight years. Those who attempted to resist, and some who did not, were beaten, tor-
tured, or mutilated; sometimes they were murdered.The treatment of comfort women was consistent with Japan’s view of the racial inferiority of the populations from which the women were drawn. At some comfort stations, the women were given Japanese names and required to speak Japanese and entertain the men with Japanese songs. Korean comfort women were referred to as chosenppi (Korean vagina) or other derogatory Japanese terms for Koreans. At the end of the war, many «comfort women» were killed by retreating troops or simply abandoned. For example, in one case in Micronesia, the Japanese Army killed 70 comfort women in one night just before the arrival of American troops.8 Others were abandoned, sometimes in dense jungles, when their Japanese captors fled. Many of those died of starvation and disease. Others did not know where they were, were hundreds of miles from their homes, had no money, and no means to return. Survivors who made it home returned to what were often lives of isolation and societal rejection, compounded by deeply instilled feelings of guilt and shame. Many were ostracized, beaten or even killed. Most of those still living are extremely poor and suffer from severe physical and psychological problems. Many could not marry. As a result of violent physical and sexual abuse, sexually transmitted diseases and drug addictions arising from their war time experiences, many women suffer serious health effects, including permanent damage to their reproductive organs and urinary tracts. Many women also found themselves unable to bear children as a result of their mistreatment. Sleep disorders, like insomnia and fearful nightmares, are common. They suffer grievously to this day. -------------------------------------------Military Involvement -------------------------------------------The comfort woman program of sexual slavery was a systematic and carefully planned system ordered and executed by the Japanese Government. 11 According to a report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against women, its causes and consequences, Ms Radhika Coomaraswamy: The first comfort stations under direct Japanese control were those in Shanghai in 1932, and there is firsthand evidence of official involvement in their establishment. One of the commanders of the Shanghai campaign, Lieutenant General Okamura Yasuji, confessed in his memoirs to have been the original proponent of comfort stations for the
military ... a number of Korean women from a Korean community in Japan were sent to the province by the Governor of Nagasaki Prefecture. The fact that they were sent from Japan implicates not only the military but also the Home Ministry, which controlled the governors and the police who were later to play a significant role in collaborating with the army in forcibly recruiting women. The government of Japan shipped girls and women like military supplies throughout the vast area of Asia and the Pacific that Japanese troops controlled, from the Siberian border to the equator, including: China (including Guangdong and Manchuria), Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Amoi, French Indochina, the Philippines, Guam, Malaya, Singapore, British Borneo, the Dutch East Indies, Burma, Thailand, East New Guinea, New Britain, Trobriand, Okinawa, and Sakhalin, as well as the Japanese islands of Kyushu, Honshu and Hokkaido. The Japanese government built, operated, and controlled hundreds of comfort houses in these areas. Deception and coercion were common in the recruitment of comfort women? who were mostly taken from poverty-stricken families? and many were simply abducted by brute force. Tomasa Salinog of the Phillippines was awakened one night in 1942 by Japanese soldiers breaking into her home. After the soldiers decapitated her father, Salinog was dragged from her house by the soldiers and taken to a nearby garrison. Ms. Salinog, who was thirteen years old at the time, was then raped by two soldiers and beaten unconscious. She was thereafter forced to serve as a comfort woman in the same garrison. Young girls were targeted as they were unlikely to be infected with venereal diseases. The girls and women taken were as young as eleven years old and were sometimes taken from their elementary schools.The women were often removed to remote places where they had no linguistic or cultural ties so that they could more easily be isolated from any prospect of sympathy or help. In Korea, in addition to recruitment by force and deception, comfort women were recruited under the official labor draft, instituted to strengthen the Japanese war effort. (It was called kunro (labor) or Yeoja (woman) Jungshindae (in Japanese, Teishintai), meaning Voluntarily Committing Body Corps for Labor. Labor This is a phrase coined by the Japanese that denotes the devoting of one’s entire being to the cause of the Emperor.) Many young women recruited or lured to work in the factories, were diverted by Japan into sexual slavery. The same occurred to many women originally
drafted to work in factories. Only Japanese soldiers were allowed to frequent the comfort stations and were normally charged a fixed price. The prices varied by the women’s nationality.The rank of the soldier determined the length of time allowed for a visit, the price paid, and the hours at which the soldier was entitled to visit the comfort station. At least a portion of the revenue was taken by the military. According to the testimony of a survivor quoted in the report of the United Nations Special Rapporteur, from 3 to 7 pm each day she had to serve sergeants, whereas the evenings were reserved for lieutenants. The Japanese Army also regulated conditions at the «comfort stations,» issuing rules on working hours, hygiene, contraception, and prohibitions on alcohol and weapons.»Comfort women» were recorded on Japanese military supply lists under the heading of «ammunition» as well as under «Amenities.» Army doctors carried out health checks on the «comfort women,» primarily to prevent the spread of venereal disease.The «comfort women» system required the deployment of the vast infrastructure and resources that were at the government’s disposal, including soldiers and support personnel, weapons, all forms of land and sea transportation, and engineering and construction crews and mat?iel. -------------------------------------------U.S. Participation in the «Comfort Women» System -------------------------------------------After the war, the Japanese government was afraid that United States and other Allied troops would commit attrocities in a similar manner as their own troops did when invading China in 1937. In order to prevent rapes, on August 18, 1945, the Japanese government opened the «comfort stations» for use by Allied troops. According to Japanese documents and testimony from former comfort women, the women at these stations were forced to serve as sexual slaves to the American soldiers.The first comfort station opened for the use of United States troops in the Tokyo area on August 27, 1945, with reports that terrified comfort women began weeping, clung to posts in the building and refused to move. The United States did not simply make use of Japanese initiated comfort stations but also requested others be built on their behalf. In September of 1945, the chief of Tokyo’s Public Health Section, Yosano Hikaru met with the Surgeon General of the Army to discuss the availability of women for the United States Army. After this meeting, responsibility for the «comfort
stations» was divided between Yosano and Colonel C.F. Sams, Chief of the Public Health and Welfare Department. These stations were only closed because of threat of sexually transmitted diseases. -------------------------------------------Japan’s Denials -------------------------------------------In 1990, in response to calls for an investigation from women’s organizations in the Republic of Korea and from a member of the Japanese Diet, the Japanese Government responded that the «comfort women» issue was the work of neither the Japanese Government nor the military, but of private entrepreneurs.In 1991, in response to a letter from the Korean Women’s Association demanding an apology, a memorial and a thorough inquiry, the Japanese Government stated that there was no evidence of the forced drafting of Korean women as «comfort women,» and thus no need for an apology, memorial or disclosures by the Government of Japan. The response also suggested that the «comfort women» were voluntary prostitutes. On August 14, 1991, a South Korean woman named Kim Hak Soon became the first former comfort woman to give public testimony. Since then, some 190 women in Korea alone have come forward. Of these, forty, including Kim Hak Soon herself, have passed away. The Japanese government’s initial reaction to the brutal history first disclosed by Kim Hak Soon was to deny that it was involved. In 1992 Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary expressed deep remorse and admitted for their first time that the Japanese Imperial Army was in some way involved in the running of comfort facilities. Later that year, the Government released 127 documents implicating the Japanese military in the use of comfort stations. However, Japan continued to deny an official role in «recruiting» the women. On April 27, 1998, the Shimonoseki Branch of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Court in Japan ruled in favor of 3 South Korean comfort women’s complaint against Japan. However, on May 8, 1998, the Japanese government filed an appeal stating that they do not hold legal responsibility for the crimes committed against individuals during the war. Most recently, the Tokyo High Court ruled against two separate cases brought by individuals
against Japan, one on behalf of Korean woman, Song Shin-do and one on behalf of 46 Filipino women. On May 9, 2001, a Japanese daily newspaper ran an editorial denying that the system of sexual slavery had ever existed. The same newspaper also refused to print a rebuttal by the South Korean government stating the historical record regarding the Japanese system of sexual slavery. As recently as May 2001, Japan omitted any mention of the system of sexual slavery in the history textbooks used to teach Japanese students. Since the end of the war, Japan has also engaged in ongoing and continuing conduct to wrongfully conceal its involvement in the systematic sexual slavery of the «comfort women» as well as refusing to provide true compensation to the «comfort women. «The Japanese Government destroyed many relevant documents immediately after the war, and Japan has been unwilling to release the bulk of whatever documents remain. Although individual representatives of the Japanese Government have issued a series of apologies, they have not spoken for the government as a whole and Japan continues to deny the full nature and extent of its responsibility for the atrocities. Japan has made no reparations to the victims, no acknowledgment of legal liability, and has undertaken no prosecutions.
Yi Hyun-Ho (http://myhome.naver.com/yihyunho/menu0.php)
SEXUAL SLAVERY AND OTHER WAR CRIMES, JAPAN IS NOT QUALIFIED TO BE A PERMANENT MEMBER OF THE UN S.C. The international human rights community recognized that the system of military sexual slavery by Japan was a serious violation of the international laws and recommended that the Japanese government make an official apology and provide legal compensation to the victims of sexual slavery (Special Rapporteur on violence against women of the UN Commission on Human Rights, 1996; Special Rapporteur on systematic rape, sexual slavery and slavery-like practices of the UN Sub-Commission on Human Rights, 1998; ILO Committee of Experts on the Application of Standards and Conventions, 1999; Women’s International War Crimes Tribunal on Japan’s Military Sexual Slavery, 2000). The Japanese government, however, has been ignoring these recommendations and avoiding its legal responsibilities. The «atonement money» offered by the Asian Women’s Fund is not a proper solution, since the majority of the victims of the Japanese Military Sexual Slavery rejected it. We, the undersigned, sincerely request that in the year 2005, the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the UN and the ILO strongly urge the Japanese government to finally comply with the international community’s recommendations and come up with an official apology and legal compensation to the victims of sexual slavery. We oppose Japan’s joining in the UN Security Council as a permanent member. Without solving the issues of Military Sexual Slavery and other war crimes, Japan is not qualified to be a permanent member of the UN S.C. http://www.womenandwar.net/english/sign_en.php
ALL DRAWINGS & PAINTINGS BY 1. Kim Sun-duk «Stolen Away in a Ship» 2. unknown «Doraji» 3. unknown «My Childhood» 4. Yi Yong-nyeo «Home alone» 5. Kang Duk-kyoung «landscape with the snow» 6. Kim Sun-duk «Fury» 7. Kim Sun-duk «A scrifice» 8. .Kim Sun-duk «Kidnapped» 9. Kim Sun-duk «At that time, at that place» 10. Yi Yong-nyeo «Bathing in the comfort Station» 11. Kang Duk-kyoung «Rabaoul comfort station» 12. Kang Duk-kyoung «Soldier taking pears» 13. Kang Duk-kyoung «Purity lost forever» 14. Kim Bok-dong «Dok-do, mon île!» 15. Kim Sun-duk «greeting» 16. Kang Duk-kyoung «Punish those responsible» WERE COMFORT WOMEN DURING THE WORLD WAR II * THE NUMBER OF SURVIVING COMFORT WOMEN’S IN SOUTH KOREA IS 132 OUT OF TOTAL 212 REPORTED.
