NIIGATA (The Thursday Times) — 1977 mein North Korea ke haathon aghwa hone wali Japani talibah Megumi Yokota ki walida ne Hafte ke roz, aghwa ki 49vin barsi se aik din pehle, apni beti ki wapsi ki appeal dohrai aur kaha ke 13 saal ki umar mein Megumi ke lapata hone ke baad se “naqabil-e-tasawwur had tak taweel arsa” guzar chuka hai.
“Main har waqt sochti rehti hoon ke us ki zindagi kaisi hogi,” 90 saala Sakie Yokota ne Niigata mein aik rally se kaha, jis mein woh video link ke zariye shareek huin. “Agarche 90 baras ki umar mein ab main khud par zyada zor nahin daal sakti, lekin main apni poori koshish kar rahi hoon aur jab tak theek hoon, mulaqat ki dua kar rahi hoon.”
Megumi ko 15 November 1977 ki shaam us waqt utha liya gaya jab woh Sea of Japan ke sahil par waqe shehar Niigata mein school se ghar laut rahi thin. Aaj un ki umar 62 baras hoti.
Hafte ki rally mein taqreeban 700 afraad shareek huay, jis mein Megumi ko watan wapas laane ke liye koshishen tez karne ka mutalba kiya gaya.
Beton ka sarbarahi mulaqat par zor
Megumi ke chhote bhai, 58 saala Takuya Yokota, jo North Korea ke haathon aghwa hone walon ke khandanon ki tanzeem ke sarbarah hain, ne kaha ke un ke zehan mein behen ki umar kabhi nahin barhi. “Meri yaadon mein Megumi aaj bhi 13 saal ki hai, is liye main tasawwur nahin kar sakta ke 62 saal ki umar mein woh ab kaisi dikhti hogi,” unhon ne kaha aur hukoomat par zor diya ke woh North Korea ke saath sarbarahi mulaqat mumkin banaye.
Un ke judwan bhai Tetsuya ne bhi yahi baat kahi. “Yeh aisa masla hai jo working satah par nahin balke sarbarahi satah par hal ho sakta hai,” unhon ne ijtima se kaha.
Wazir-e-Azam Sanae Takaichi apne daur-e-hukoomat mein is masle par “breakthrough” ka waada kar chuki hain aur keh chuki hain ke woh North Korea ke rehnuma Kim Jong Un se milna chahti hain.
Japan ki fehrist mein satrah naam
Japan sarkari taur par 17 shehriyon ko 1970 aur 1980 ki dahaiyon mein North Korea ke haathon aghwa shuda qarar deta hai, jin mein se baaz ko North Korea ke jasooson ko Japani zabaan aur rasm-o-riwaj sikhane ke liye le jaya gaya. 2002 mein Pyongyang mein aik sarbarahi mulaqat ke baad in mein se paanch ko watan wapas aane ki ijazat di gayi. North Korea ka kehna hai ke Megumi aur saat deegar afraad wafat pa chuke hain, jise Tokyo ne kabhi tasleem nahin kiya, aur Japani hukoomat kai deegar gumshudgiyon mein bhi Pyongyang ke mulawwis hone ka shubah rakhti hai.
Watan lautne wale paanch afraad mein se aik, 67 saala Hitomi Soga, ab bhi apni walida ki muntazir hain jinhen 1978 mein un ke saath hi aghwa kiya gaya tha. “Yeh soch kar mujhe chain nahin aata ke woh har din kaise guzaar rahi hongi,” unhon ne rally ke baad sahafiyon se kaha aur bataya ke woh walida ki wapsi ke liye dua karti rahengi.
Megumi ke walid Shigeru 2020 mein beti ko dobara dekhe baghair intiqal kar gaye. Sakie ab Japan ki sarkari fehrist mein shamil kisi maghwi ke zinda reh jaane wale aakhri walidain hain.
