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the Star and the Globe and Mall. It's a saさsy tabloid, tends to be sensational in Its news handling, quけe right, wing in its editQrial opinions, andけintroduced the daily Sunshine Girl to Canada.
The SurTs letters section is different from most. Letters published tend to be shorter. And there's alway's a one-line comment by the Sun after each letter.
The redress issue debate began on May 30 when Norma Waghorne suggested in herしeUer of the Day that the U.S. and Canadian governments should look at the compensationりeing given former prisoners of war of the Japanese, before considering compensation for what she called "Japanese Csmadian losses suffered during the
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It was obvious that Ms. Waghorne, who said her husband suffered as a POW of the Japanese, classけies the Japanese who imprisoned Allied servicemen amd the Japanese Canadians and Americans who were mistreated in North America as one and the same. The Sun' s editor's comment was "Your moving comments have much merけ."
What was intriguing was the response from other Toronto Sun readers. Waけer
he agreed with Waghorne's logic that there should be fair play for POWs of the Japanese, "two wrongs don't make a right."
Blunt went on to explain that those who were mistreat, ed here were "thousands of loyal cけizens," that they were "born and raised in this continent and were wrongly associated wけh the horrible atro dties commuted by others thousands of miles away."
He also said that German andはalian (Canadian) cけi-
zens didn't receive such treatment so "why then loyal American/Canadians of Japanese heritage"
The Sun comment was "valid food for thought."
Three days later (June 6) followed a letter from Rose-
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"HIbakusha" — KInuko Laskey (front), H薩toshl Mけsul, Tad Ohorl, and Reほo Nakano tel. Vanouverites of nuclear horror.
Canadian Society for A torn Bomb Survivors speaks out
VANCOUVER — Mrs. Kinu* ko Laskey, 54, a survivor of the Hiroshima holocaust, recently spoke at the Vancouver East Cuけural Centre about her experiences. A year ago, this, for Mrs.しaskey would have been out of character. In the -past, she had lived wけh her memories of the atomic bombing in a state of truce.
She lived with the miscarriages and the tumors on her ovaries. She put up wけh the facial scars, the blindness in one eye, the radiation sickness, the loss of her hair, the back pain, anemia, sWn rashes, blood disorders and severe depression. She very rarely talked about Hiroshima, and thought aboutけ,in terms of nijclear disarmament, even l的s.
Butしaskey, whose maiden name was Doi before she married a Canadian and mov-
ed to Vancouver, has now taken an increasingly active role in the peace movement.
She testified before U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy's sub-commけtee ofii,uじlyar dis-armament and she has made herseけavailable to speak to any organization that w川 listen to her. This year, she organized the first localchapter of the Canadian Society fol^ Atomic Bomb survivors.
In Japan, atomic bomb survivors 一of whom there are appoximately 370,000, from both Hiroshima and Nagasaki 一are known as /7き/«;由 (pronounced hee-back-sha). The hibakusha suffer a whole spectrum of dほeases, and experience social pressures unlike those war casualties injured by more conventional weapons.しeukemla Is common among them, and can-
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By ANN GOMER SUNAHARA (Author of Politics of Racism)
In any discussion of redress for the wrongs suffered by Japanese Canadians in World War II there is a natural tendency to overlook nonmonetary redreぉ:that is, redress in the form of legal reforms intended to prevent the recurrence of similar wrongs.
The law under which Japanese Canadians were abused, the War Measures Act, remains unaltered It still lacks the tradけion a I safeguards of emergency legislation: a time limはand meaningful control by Parliament.けstill rests on legal decisions in which the courts refused to question the validity of and neces-sけy for the orders issued by the Executive under the War Measures Act. Most importantly けmay not be aはered in any real way by the Charter of rights.
The War Measures Act is, however,about to be revised because of the Charter of ! Rights. There are those who want to exclude the Charter 4fom appying to Orders"n-Council under the War Measures Act. Should that occur, everything that was done to Japanese Canadians, except possibly their deportation, could be done again to any other resident of Canada.
Canadians can also be made the victims of repressive policies under the War Measures Act.
Andre & Nobuko Gueymard ssy "Bon Appetite"
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have both a right and a duty t6 demand that the taws of this country be changed to prevent the injustice they experienced from recurring.
No amount of money, no recけal of apologetic state• ments can truly redress the wrongs of thd pastけthe means by which those wrongs were accomplished remain unaltered;けother innocent
VANCOUVER. — Andr, and Nobuko GiMymard, with daughter Cam川0, "and In
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