By Brett Watkins
''The alleged rape of an Okinawan woman by two American sailors is but the latest in a string of literally thousands of crimes committed by US troops on the small Japanese islands over the past seven decades.
Okinawans have been trying in vain to get the
Americans to leave their little corner of Japan for generations.
In 1945
a farmer armed only with a bamboo pole was shot dead as he attempted to
protect his land from US forces. Okinawan property was seized at
gunpoint; homes and farms were bulldozed or burned. The Americans
promised Okinawans good farm land and financial assistance if they would
only move halfway around the world to Bolivia. Thousands took them up
on their offer only to find themselves shipped off to an inhospitable
wilderness where many died from disease. They never saw a penny of the
promised money.''
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