From: toshimaru ogura
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FOR HOW MUCH LONGER DO WE TOLERATE MASS MURDER?
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Message from the homeless in Tokyo, JAPAN
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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.

mail addresses to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government:
   SHB00924@niftyserve.or.jp
   TOKYOGOV@pcvan.or.jp
   17140596@people.or.jp
mail addresses to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan:
   mofhogai@po.iijnet.or.jp
mail form to the Prime Minister of Japan:
   http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/question.html

17th January, 1996
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This document and references are available from
http://www.ifnet.or.jp/~inoken/text/index_e.html

If you approve our opinion, please make copy this document,
distribute to your friends and others as many as possible, and also
ask them to protest against the Tokyo metropolitan government.


Shibuya Harajuku Society for Life and Rights
inoken@apple.ifnet.or.jp

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Toshimaru Ogura
Toyama University
the Faculty of Economics
3190  Gofuku, Toyama-shi, Japan
e-mail  ogura@eco.toyama-u.ac.jp
http://www.toyama-u.ac.jp/~ogura/indexEng.html
http://www.toyama-u.ac.jp/~ogura/index.html
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