tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026256712239783281.post329320636173961918..comments2024-03-21T21:23:25.688-04:00Comments on American POWs of Japan: Kerry's Premature Visit to HiroshimaAsia Policy Pointhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03784292872823996552noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9026256712239783281.post-50390579235268844352016-04-11T19:30:08.279-04:002016-04-11T19:30:08.279-04:00We were also victims of the Japanese during WW2, a...We were also victims of the Japanese during WW2, and I hope our governments will not forget that. My mother and my aunt were raped by these monsters who called themselves soldiers. We were in Japanese prison camps for three and a half year, starved, tortured and worked to death.We, that is my cousins and I lost our fathers. My father was starved, tortured and worked to death on the infamous Burma railroad line. My uncle died on the submarine the 016, the first submarine which torpedoed 4 Japanese transport ships, but unfortunately on the way home, only 7 days into the war they run on a mine. All men 42 men died, but one. He swam for 36 hours and was picked up by natives. My great uncle died on one of the merchant ships the Zaandam, and we only found out last year that he was buried in Puerto Rico as an American soldier. He was Dutch, his name Sietze Stenekes. I hope Obama realise that ones you are a war victim you will be for the rest of your life a war victim. Obama should also realise that many more would have died if the bombs had not been dropped. The Japanese would never have surrendered. We, women and children were considered POWs and all POwS were going to die at the hands of the Japanese. The order was given by Hirohito(Hirohitler) is a better name. My mother told me that the Japanese flag had a huge blood stain in the middle, and the women in camp would never call it the Rising Sun.Sadly we were the forgotten ones, our mothers voices were never heard. But let me tell you, as long as we the children live we will not stop to have our voices heard. In The Hague every second Tuesday of the month we demonstrate in front of the Japanese embassy. They are cowards, they close the curtains as soon as they see us coming. We had in a petition and we do this already for more then 25 years. We will never forget what these monsters have done to us innocent women and children.I WILL NEVER FORGET THE BEATINGS MY MOTHER RECEIVED IN FRONT OF MY EYES BECAUSE I , ONLY 4 YEARS OLD FORGOT TO BOW. I hope Obama will ask the Japanese government to recognize what their former former Japanese military inflicted on human beings and I hope Obama will ask for Justice, before he apologize for the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.It was Japan who declared war and never have we received any apology or Justice.Three and half years behind highwalls and barbwire. Our mothers did every thing to try to keep us the children alive. Every day we had children and women dying in our camp, because the Japanese stole our Red Cross packets with medicines etc. I never forget I was sitting outside the church which was on our property were we were held in camp Moetilan on the island of Java, while my mother got raped inside. I had no idea at the time, because I was too young.My mother always cried, when she came out and always told me she hurt herself. How our mothers protected us from all the evil we had seen. Always telling us that these were bad dreams we had, such things do not happen in real life, they always told us. It only happens in movies. For many years we believed them. Our mothers our heroes, who's voices were never heard.How they have suffered, during that horrible time and how they suffered for the rest of their lives.<br /> Theahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13604687051481590516noreply@blogger.com