Sexual crimes in the military, including the recent death of an Air Force sergeant, continue to rise.
Let's take a look at the problems of why the military does not change despite various measures such as supplementing the military criminal law and establishing a dedicated center.
As of 2019, the proportion of female soldiers among military officers was 6.8%, making it difficult for female soldiers to be treated as equal soldiers.
[Mr. A / Bereaved family of a sergeant and sergeant of a sex crime victim in the Air Force: Why is a female soldier necessary for a dinner party? Why do I have to take female soldiers out to dinner? Seating in the office is also a problem. Two female soldiers are seated in the middle, and five are sitting around the pep. Isn't that a zoo?] In the
case of an accident, the military organization is supposed to hold the superiors accountable or take joint responsibility.
[Bang Hye-rin / Counseling Team Leader of the Military Human Rights Center: Once the victim starts to say something, he follows the logic of the security guard and
says,
'Can't you just skip it one more time, that person is not that kind of person']
[Mr. Bereaved family of a former Air Force sex crime victim, Sgt. Lee Mo: According to the victim's words, the soldier who caused some trouble, I started to see it with these eyes. In a word, it's bullying.]
Incidents and accidents within the unit are subject to the military criminal law.
The level of the military criminal law is generally higher than that of the civilian criminal law, but if you look at the actual results, from 2015 to June last year, only 175 out of about 1,700 sex crime trials were sentenced to imprisonment.
[Bang Hye-rin / Counseling Team Leader of the Military Human Rights Center: Because the military court itself is not conducting a proper trial now, the indictment rate or sentence of imprisonment in the military court is horribly lower than that of the civilian court, and the civilian court In some cases, there is a trial.]
Prevention education emphasized every time the case is repeated.
[Bang Hye-rin / Counseling Team Leader of the Military Human Rights Center: There are a lot of overlapping contents and there is no connection between the contents because the sexual violence prevention education instructors come and do it from time to time. .]
If we don't properly target the causes that put women soldiers at risk for sex crimes, the problem will only repeat itself.
▶ Accommodation security, office layout, compulsory dinner party… The case of sexual harassment of an Air Force noncommissioned officer in which everything was a problem