A letter to the Japanese from an Iraqi 


The following is an reproduction from a site run by Katsusuke MIYAUCHI . He is a writer who also is participating in the "ONWAR project " like I am. The "ONWAR project" is a campaign linking up multiple web sites around the globe in order to create an platform to discuss the matters of war. The participating sites carry an icon on their top pages.
Mr. Miyauchi welcomes everyone to send this page out to friends: no permission is needed. 

Dec.5, 2003
A letter from an Iraqi to the Japanese people

A friend of mine working for an NGO sent me this letter that was originally sent out from Baghdad. The sender found the NGO's E-mail address searching through Yahoo Japan.
I was deeply touched by this letter and was beginning to think that it would be good to have the letter read by many Japanese as possible, when my friend contacted me again with the good news that the sender readily agreed to have the letter released on the net.
I have erased the name so as not to endanger the sender. The rest is as it was originally sent, not one word revised. The word "Rei" at the end of the letter, probably means "bow" in Japanese; the sender is told to be learning karate.
I dearly hope that the heart-rending words written by an Iraqi citizen will touch the hearts of many Japanese people who have the chance to read it. And please send this letter to your friends and acquaintances so they can read it, also.
No permission is needed. You are welcome to reproduce it anytime.

Katsusuke, MIYAUCHI
http://pws.prserv.net/umigame/

A letter from an Iraqi to the Japanese people

I have found your email address from Yahoo Japan. My name is Mr. ●●●● and I am a high school teacher living in Baghdad, Iraq. I have learned Karate and Japanese language and I always respected Japan and Japanese people.

It was terrible news for us that Japanese Army is coming to Iraq to help US invasion. I have never supported Saddam Hussein but US is nothing but an armed robber. They are killing Iraqi every day and no ordinary citizen supports them.
Now, more and more people are taking part in resistance movement. They are not terrorists or remnant of old regime, just normal people. Imagine how people would act if any country invaded Japan. Exactly the same thing is happening here.
Iraqi should be the one to reconstruct Iraq, not the invaders.

Do not come to Iraq as a US allied invasion troop! Iraqi respects Japan but if the army comes now, Japan will become the enemy of Iraqi and whole Muslim.
Every Iraqi will feel deeply disappointed to Japan, a great nation who has never been hostile to Muslim in the past. Supporting US is absolutely not worth all these losses including Japanese people’s life. We welcome Japan after the invaders are gone, but strictly not now.

Please tell our real feelings to Japanese people. Japanese army should not invade our country! I love Japan so please, please, do not be our enemy. We hope Japan will take the right decision as an independent country.

Rei,
Baghdad, Iraq 

Posted: 水 - 12月 24, 2003 at 12:34 午前          

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