來自日本的佛教團體─真宗大谷派等十八日在立法院舉行「宗教界挺樂生」記者會，進行一場宗教跨國對話與幫漢生病洗刷污名。中央社記者徐肇昌攝九十六年四月十八日 ]]>
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家和房子是不一樣的 家是心情上的認同 而房子只不過是個容身之處 所以說「家」是心之居處 Home is different from a house. Home is belonging to your heart, while a house is just a place for your body. That’s why “home” is called as the place where your heart lives.To clearify if the reservation of 90% of the area is applicable, nooorman asked his friend who works in the Rapid Transit System, and compared all approaches proposed by the Department of Rapid Transit System (DoRT), Dr. Ke-Chiang Liu (劉可強), and Dr. Chao-Chin Yu (喻肇青). By illustrating the design (with the help of wenli’s hand-made schematics) and discussing pros and cons of each plan, he explained the proposals one by one to his readers. He also decided to turn his blog into a platform specializing in technical issues of Lo-sheng reservation. In the mean time, HOW visited Dr. Liu, asked his opinion about the controversies among those proposals, and put voice records and a sketch of the interview on his blog. He concluded that there is still space for negotiation:
捷運局的方案與文建會的方案基本上是有討論空間的。而捷運局保存40%的方案根本上並沒有真的保存到樂生療養院，也不願意和文件會的案子進行工程技術上的討論。這個案子是很有機會找出一個具體可行的解決方案。 Basically, there is room for discussions between proposals from the DoRTS and the Council for Cultural Affairs. The problem is, the 40% reservation proposal from the DoRTS does not really reserve the major part of the Lo-sheng sanatorium, not mentioning the fact that the DoRTS isn’t willing to discuss technique details of engineering with the CCA. Otherwise, it is possible to find out an applicable solution for both sides.
支持樂生保留的人獨缺我那群長期從事社運的朋友們，他們毫無例外的告訴我，樂生保留訴求的正當性不足，很難說服社會，作為一個專業的社會運動者，他們必須選擇戰場，他們甚至質疑現在還選擇樂生當作戰場的人，要不就是判斷出問題，不然就是別有用心。 Those who support the reservation may not include my friends who have been devoted on the social campaign for a long time. My friends told me unexceptionally that the calls for reservation are not legit enough to convince the public. As the professional social activists, they have to choose battleground. They even doubted that the people who choose the Lo-sheng issue as the battleground, either misjudge or have other purpose.In March 31, Mr. Hsi-Wei Chou (周錫瑋), as the Taipei County Commissioner (where the sanatorium is), participated a demonstration entitled “We want MRT for our survival!”. The demonstration was staged by the local representatives
各位鄉親，我們捷運為了樂生，我們願意等，但是已經等了三年，我們還要再等一年以上，再等下去嗎? (群眾大喊) 不要~~~~ Chou: “Dear citizens!! For the losheng sanatorium, we are willing to wait. BUT we have waited for three years!! Are we going to wait for another year? For any longer?” Crowd: ” No~~~~”He also told the crowd that he will proceed the demolition on April 16, unless the Executive Yuan asks the government to postpone via formal documents. In the Legislative Yuan, Mr. Chia-Fu Tsai (蔡家福) , the legislator who was elected from Hsinchuang city, obstructed the legislating procedure of “Hansen’s Disease Compensation Act”. Although the draft of the act have been proposed and negotiated during the past two years, Mr. Tsai, together with the other two ligislators, boycotted the cross-party negotiations right after they arrived. This will cause the efforts via the legislation facing a dead end before April 16.
"I do so to get a feeling of what it is like to be a disadvantaged person in a society, and to try to feel how hard life was for the elderly people [of Losheng]." Lou Nai-chieh, a university student taking part in yesterday's protest
By Loa Iok-sin STAFF REPORTER, WITH AP Monday, Apr 16, 2007, Page 1Thousands of people took to the streets of Taipei yesterday to support preserving the Losheng (Happy Life) Sanatorium. After speeches, musical performances and a play by individuals and groups, the crowd marched 2km from the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall to Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office where another rally followed. Losheng is a sanatorium in Taipei County completed in 1930 under Japanese colonial rule where thousands of people with Hansen's disease, or leprosy, have been secluded for life. Plans to tear down most of the buildings to make room for a Mass Rapid Transport (MRT) maintenance depot have sparked heated debate. The sanatorium still houses 45 elderly lepers who refuse to move. Last month, the Taipei County Government announced that today would be the deadline for the residents' mandatory eviction. However, having faced tremendous public pressure, Premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said last Wednesday that the deadline would be postponed. Although the premier's decision has given Losheng a temporary reprieve, the sanatorium's future is still uncertain. "Through the march, we want to put pressure on the government on all levels ? so that Losheng's preservation can be assured," said Hsia Chu-chiu (夏鑄九), a professor of urban planning at National Taiwan University. A UK-based construction consulting firm has proposed a plan in which 90 percent of the sanatorium's buildings can be preserved with only a few months' delay to the completion of the MRT line. "Preserve 90 percent of Losheng -- no delay to the MRT" the crowd chanted as they marched. At the tail end of the march was a group of about 100 "disciplinants," mostly of university students. Four people leading the team walked while dragging metal barrels with burning coals. Those who followed kneeled down on the street after every six steps and kowtowed. "I do so to get a feeling of what it is like to be a disadvantaged person in a society, and to try to feel how hard life was for the elderly people [of Losheng]," said Lou Nai-chieh (樓乃潔), a university student who participated in the disciplinant team. "I want to thank you all for holding out your hands and offering us your warm help," Chou Fu-tsu (周富子), a Losheng resident, said while kneeling down in front of the demonstrators. More than 100 civic groups around the nation participated in the demonstration, according to Hsu Po-jen (許博任), a member of the Youth Alliance for Losheng, one of the main sponsors of yesterday's march and rally. To bring demonstrators from outside of Taipei into the city, the sponsors organized a "Losheng bus" program in which people pooled their money to hire buses. "There are four buses that brought us here from Kaoshiung and Pingtung," said a demonstrator surnamed Kao from Meinong (美濃), Kaohsiung County. "We're here to join forces with others and express our opposition to a bad decision," Kao said. ]]>
By Hermia Lin Taiwan News, Staff ReporterAn estimated 5,000 advocates and students gathered and marched in Taipei City yesterday to demand more understanding and human rights toward patients of the Losheng Sanatorium (樂生療養院). With yellow banners tied to their foreheads or elbows that read "Save Losheng; fight against eviction," thousands of activists, including more than 100 civil groups that devote themselves to helping disadvantaged minorities, shook the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, where the march started, with a burst of vitality and righteousness that the compound has seldom felt before. One of the sponsor organizations, the Youth Union for Lepers Rights, told reporters that all of the 5,000 banners were distributed to participants of the march.
今回は、当面の危機を回避したといえますが、まだ状況の推移を見守ってゆく必要があるといえます。こうしたことから4月15日の大規模デモは予定通り開催されます。
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【台湾・台北県新荘市で松田良孝記者】日本統治下の1930（昭和5）年に建てられたハンセン病療養施設「楽生療養院」が鉄道工事に伴って取り壊されるのに対して、立ち退きを求められている入所者の一部が反対しており、台湾で社会問題化している。「楽生療養院」は、沖縄出身のハンセン病患者も足跡を残す施設。台湾人入所者はそのうちの1人の男性について「モリでカジキを打つ話をしてくれた」と証言した。 証言したのは、張文賓さん（78）と鄭天正さん（76）。鄭さんは、日本統治時代に建てられた施設で生活を続けている。 2人の証言によると、この男性患者は、戦地から沖縄に復員したあと、漁業指導のために台湾北部にある基隆市の和平島で生活していた時に感染が分かり、1950年代前半（昭和20年代後半）に入所したようだ。 和平島は「社寮島」と呼ばれていた日本統治時代から沖縄出身の漁業者が集落をつくっていたことで知られる。 鄭さんは、両手を広げて大きく動かしながら、「（沖縄出身の男性は）モリでカジキを打つ話をしてくれた」と証言。漁船の船首から台を長く伸ばした「突き船」によるカジキ漁のようだ。 当時、楽生療養院の入所者は生活に困窮。鄭さんや張さんは、肉や毛皮を取るためのウサギを飼い、生活費を稼いでいた。男性も一緒にウサギを飼っていたという。 鄭さんは「（男性は）台湾語は聞いて分かるし、話すのも片言以上だった」、「ほかの入所者の散髪もする」とも述べ、男性はほかの入所者になじんで療養生活を送っていたようだ。 その後、男性は、沖縄から迎えに来た家族とともに楽生療養院を去り、沖縄で亡くなったという。 ]]>台湾のハンセン病療養施設「楽生療養院」で、沖縄出身の入所者について証言する鄭天正さん＝5日午後、台湾・台北県新荘市
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【宮古島】「第６５回全国ハンセン病療養所入所者協議会（全療協）定期支部長会議」が９日、宮古島市の国立療養所宮古南静園で始まった。療養所の将来構想の策定について重点的に議論し、ハンセン病基本法の制定に向けて署名を集めることや、入所者が減る中で園を存続させるため、他の機能を持った福祉施設を併設することなどの提案が出た。 会議は１２日まで行われ、療養所の将来構想を中心に意見交換し、運動方針などを討議、採択する。 ハンセン病国家賠償請求訴訟西日本弁護団長を務めた徳田靖之弁護士は「将来構想の策定や実現に向けてハンセン病基本法制定を目指すべきだ。各療養所で入所者が減る中、廃園を防ぐには高齢者や障害者のデイケア、地域の医療機関として開放する多機能併設で利用者数を確保するしかない。国家賠償訴訟以上の運動がないと国を動かせない」と指摘した。 ハンセン病基本法制定に向けた運動の３本柱として徳田弁護士は（１）国民的な署名活動（２）各療養所で将来構想を考えるシンポジウムを開催（３）２年以内に地元自治体の決議―を挙げた。このほか、各支部長による現状報告などが行われた。 討議に先立って行われた開会式で全療協の宮里光雄会長は「国による定員削減は各施設に大きな打撃を与えている。職員増員を声を大にして要求せねばならない。将来構想は難題。目標達成に向けて頑張ろう」とあいさつした。 ]]>ハンセン病基本法や将来構想の策定などについて話し合う全療協の支部長ら＝１０日、宮古島市平良島尻の宮古南静園