Peace Demonstration

             I usually don’t like watching the news because they don’t tell a lot of good news but have stimulating contents such as sex crime and violence. However, I sometimes read online news article, and today, I found an interesting news article about peace demonstration by Korean comfort women. They had regularly demonstrated every Wednesday in front of the Embassy of Japan in Korea over 20 years. The Wednesday Demonstration was listed in Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest rally on a single theme.

<The Wednesday Demonstration>

             Other peace movement was held in the US in opposition to US involvement in Vietnam War in 1960s. Not only US, Canada also has a diverse peace movement, Germany and United Kingdom during Cold War, had peace movement that was concentrated on the abolition of nuclear technology. The peace movement is actually a world-wide movement. 

             I am not just talking about the demonstration; I was more interested about the fact that it was a peace demonstration. It is not easy for victims to react in peaceful way, but I think they were wise to protest peacefully because if you use violence toward enemies, it will only worsen the situation. By doing the peaceful movement, the world will recognize your act someday and people will be touched by it.

Reference: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2007-03/07/content_821997.htm

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wednesday_demonstration

                http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_movement#Vietnam_War_Protests

                http://photos.uc.wisc.edu/photos/2374/view