Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean sexual slavery survivor who has been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology, wipes her tear during an interview in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, March 16, 2022. – Thirty years after going public with her story of abduction, rape and forced prostitution by Japan’s wartime military, Lee Yong-soo fears she’s running out of time to get closure to her ordeal.
She cried as she described how she was dragged from home as a 16-year-old to serve as a sex slave for Japan’s Imperial Army, and the harsh abuse she endured at a Japanese military brothel in Taiwan until the end of the war — a story she first told the world in 1992.“Both South Korea and Japan keep waiting for us to die, but I will fight until the very end,” Lee said in a recent interview at The Associated Press office in Seoul, across the street from the Japanese Embassy.
Still, the countries may find it difficult to focus on the future if they can’t narrow their disagreements over the past. South Korean court rulings in recent years calling for Japan’s government and companies to provide reparations to victims of sexual slavery and forced labor have been angrily rejected by Tokyo, which insists all wartime compensation issues were settled under a 1965 treaty normalizing relations between the two nations.
A U.N. report from 1996 concluded that sex slaves were taken through “violence and outright coercion.” A statement from Japan in 1993 acknowledged that women were takenits government has found no documents
The advisory board of this Comfort Women campaign group, comfortwomenLA, is insulting Hong Kong democratic protesters by name-calling “a riot” due to a tie with Communism:
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“Korean Council coached the women to say 'I was abducted by the Japanese military”. After Korean Council put the women on its payroll, their testimonies had completely changed.' 6/ —『The Comfort Women: Sexual Violence and Postcolonial Memory in Korea and Japan』C. Sarah Soh
Hypocrites of Korean people who blame other country while they never admit their own atrocities done to my country. Japanese people already apologized many times, made a significant amount of compensation, but they do nothing to us.
“Yoon Mee-hyang, an activist-turned-lawmaker, was a leading figure in a campaign to raise awareness toward comfort women. But KOREAN COUNCIL, who manages Comfort Women statue sales and YOON EXPLOITED VICTIMS OF COMFORT WOMEN”. Corruption
The advisory board of this Comfort Women campaign group, comfortwomenLA, is insulting Hong Kong democratic protesters by name-calling “a riot” due to a tie with Communism: And knowingly or unknowingly, AP endorses their activism.
Lee Yong-Soo, an iconic CW figure, first appeared on Korean TV, KBS on Aug 15, 1992 testifying she WASN’T forcibly abducted by Japanese, but willingly followed a man who gave her dressed. TV interviewer even confirmed this with her. Later she started to lie that she was abducted.