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The only case that we've ever heard about was when somebody was able to win a court case, basically within the last 15 years was only my case. So what happens to the rest of the victims, asked Catherine Jane Fisher, rape survivor and women's rights activist.
Japanese protesters rallied on Friday after an
American military worker confessed to killing a young Japanese woman. The former US marine is under arrest over the murder on Okinawa Island. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also expressed his outrage about the incident.
RT: A large amount of people took to the streets to protest in Okinawa lately. How can you describe people's feelings?Catherine Jane Fisher: At the moment everybody is really outraged about what has happened. This young woman should never have died.
It's stunningly clear that these rapes and murders have been happening for over 70 years. The death of this woman is a responsibility of the Japanese government.
RT: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he is outraged at the murder of a 20-year-old Rina Shimabukuro. What do you make of that? Do you think that some measures are going to be implemented any time soon? CJF: I think that the same rhetoric has been happening for the last 70 years, when the Japanese prime minister would come out, and the US military or government official would come out,
and they will say the same thing over and over again: "We are angry about what has happened and this will never happen again!" But it has happened again. Now Ms. Rina Shimabukurois dead, and that is just the same thing that keeps on happening every time.
Comment: The US military's treatment of the women of Okinawa is representative of America's culture of rape, where the system protects the predators and further victimizes the abused.