Resolution on "Demand For Compensation From Japan"
That, as the Japanese Government has, since the Second World War ended over fifty years ago, never made any formal apology and reasonable compensation for its invasion of China (including Hong Kong) and the war crimes it committed during that time, but has instead tried to distort the historical facts of its invasion of China by embellishing the invasive war and concealing the war crimes, as well as honouring the war criminals, unlawfully occupying the Diaoyu Islands, expanding its military forces, and is exhibiting an inclination towards restoring militarism, this Council expresses strong regrets about Japan's policies and behaviours mentioned above and solemnly urges the Japanese Government to take the following actions immediately:
| (1) | to offer an official written apology to the Chinese
people for waging the war against China (including Hong Kong) and the
war crimes it committed during that time, as an indication of its
admission of the responsibilities for the invasion and the war
crimes; |
| (2) | to make apologies and compensation to individual victims
or their families for the various war crimes it committed, which include
the "Nanjing Massacre", "Unit 731 Scheme", "use of chemical weapons",
"army sex slaves (comfort women)", "forced labour" and "forced exchange
of war currency"; |
| (3) | to acknowledge China's sovereignty over the Diaoyu
Islands and to cease all incursions into the Diaoyu Islands, which are
our territory; |
| (4) | to disclose all the existing secret official records of
Japan's invasion of China and the war crimes it committed during that
time; and |
| (5) | to educate the younger generations of Japan on the historical facts of Japan's invasion of China and to disseminate the message of safeguarding peace and human rights in order to stop the restoration of the militarism trend; |
this Council also urges the Central People's Government and the Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region Government to step up education on the history of our
ethnicity, build a museum in Hong Kong in memory of the defence against the
Japanese invasion, and give appropriate support to the war crimes victims in
their demand for compensation from the Japanese Government.