To stop the mass murder, We are sending this news with anger.
You know the name of TOKYO as the most developed city of the world, but you do not know that the Tokyo metropolitan government plans to do the treason against humanbeing at a new city center, Shinjuku. It is a gross forced eviction and also the homeless will be interned in a certain place where living conditions are not adequate for humanbeing. 200 homeless people in the big underground passage at Shinjuku, which is one of rare places where they can shelter themselves from rain and coldness. We are afraid that the practice of forced eviction may cause death on them in such a cold winter.
The Resolution on Forced Evictions(1993/77) adopted unanimously by The UN commission on Human Rights affirms that the practice of forced evictions constitute a gross violation of human rights, and urges governments to take any possible measures immediately aimed at stopping it.
We made a representation to the Japanese government to act up to this resolution with approval by 7 groups and 25 individuals at 12th Jan. 1996, but the next day, the metropolitan government called out over 600 policemen and security guards and assaulted on the homeless. We would like to appeal to all over the world for protesting against this rash act by the Tokyo metropolitan government.
Japanese economic success has been accomplished under a sacrifice of many laborers. Japanese labor conditions have been unadequate. The big depression has brought much harm on laborers. This is the background of homeless people in Tokyo, in particular at Shinjuku.
The Tokyo metropolitan government plans to solve this problem by the gross forced eviction which may cause a lot of death on the homeless. We are afraid that many Japanese people are unconcerned about an existence of the homeless, and also some of them approve of the metropolitan government's plan, which may cause death on them.
People all over the world!
The world has a lot of bitter experiences in its history. The representative one is the accession to the power of the Nazis under the Weimer Constitution which was thought to be the most democratic one of the world in those days.
We are very worried what was happened in the past will be repeated on the homeless who are regarded as the queer minority right now. Their rights to live are going to be violated in Tokyo, Japan.
We, humanbeing, have wisdom to conquer our faults, too. We think that the resolution above is the one of them.
We are going to lodge a protest immediately against the metropolitan government in conformity with the resolution.
THERE IS LITTLE TIME LEFT.
TO PROTEST AGAINST SUCH VIOLENT AND ILLEGAL ACT, PLEASE SEND E-MAIL DIRECTLY TO THE METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT FROM ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD, AND ALSO PLEASE SEND US E-MAIL OF YOUR SUPPORT FOR OUR OPINION.
17th January, 1996
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