Japanese Protesters Demand Withdrawal of US Troops over Epidemy of Rape and Murder

June 19th, 2016

Awake Goy

Christof Lehmann (nsnbc) : Mass protests were held as Japan mourns the death of the women who was murdered by U.S. military personnel in Okinawa. The 20-year-old woman went missing in April and was found dead on May 16. A 20-year-old woman missing since late April was found dead on May 16, 2016.

Protesters gather at the Parliament in Tokyo.

On June 19 thousands of protesters responded to the rape murder by gathering in front of Parliament in the capital Tokyo to call for the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Okinawa and from Japan in general.

In Okinawa, Japan’s southernmost prefecture, tens of thousands took to the streets to express their outrage at the disproportionate presence of U.S. military personnel on the island and the tsunami of crimes that follows in the wake of the presence of U.S. troops in the country.

U.S. military personnel, U.S. American civilians working for the military and contractors have repeatedly been linked to particularly heinous and violent incidents of rape, murder and rape murder of local women.

The latest incident was linked to a former Marine who was working as a civilian employee of the U.S. military at Kadena Airbase. Police reported the man confessed to the rape and murder of the 20-year-old girl and directed police to the location where he had placed her body.

Japanese mourning yet another rape murder victim.

The tragic and brutal act happened barely six weeks after a U.S. sailor assigned to Camp Schwab was arrested for the rape of a Japanese woman in a Haha hotel. The latest “incident” was merely one of more than 500 crimes designated a heinous under Japanese law, including some 120 rapes, committed by U.S. forces in Okinawa alone since 1972 when the U.S. military occupation was reverted to the Japanese administration. Countless other crimes are believed to go unreported.

The Japanese government is, however, in a virtually powerless position with regard to U.S. troops in Japan. Even though the “occupation” was reverted to Japanese administration in 1972, governments in Tokyo are in no position to “demand” the withdrawal of U.S. troops even if they wanted to. Japan is, along with Italy and Germany, still designated as an enemy State to the United Nations.

This means that “any full UN member State” can launch “preemptive military operation or war” against Japan without the legal requirement of a declaration of war. Realistically speaking, the government in Tokyo has no possibility to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops, or for that sake the return of the northern territories from Russia, until Japan has regained its full sovereignty.

There are, however, measures that realistically could be implemented by the national, as well as by regional and local governments. National, regional and local legislation and administrative measures could for example severely restrict the off base movements of U.S. troops as well as civilians who are employed by, or working for the military.

Additional measures could declare public restaurants, bars, cinemas, hotels, and if necessary all areas beyond an exactly defined radius around military bases “off-limits”. It is especially local lawmakers that can implement these measures “administratively”.

CH/L – nsnbc 20.06.2016

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