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November 24 - 30, 2000
Bitter Revelations
Former comfort woman Soon Duk Kim speaks into a megaphone at last Wednesday’s rally. Photo by Joseph Hong.
After decades of silence, former ‘comfort women’ demand apology, reparations
At age 17, Soon Duk Kim was taken from her native Korea and sent to China to become a “comfort woman” — the euphemism coined by the Japanese Army during World War II for the estimated 200,000 young women, mostly Koreans, but also Chinese and Filipinos, enslaved for the purpose of providing sex to Japanese soldiers in military brothels in Northeast and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and early ’40s.
Philadelphia Chinatown Wins Stadium Fight
(in National News)
India's Global Talent
(in Business)
Korean Women Expose War Atrocities Through Art
(in A&E)
Emil Amok:
(in Opinion)
Bitter Revelations
After decades of silence, former ‘comfort women’ demand apology, reparations
At age 17, Soon Duk Kim was taken from her native Korea and sent to China to become a “comfort woman” — the euphemism coined by the Japanese Army during World War II for the estimated 200,000 young women, mostly Koreans, but also Chinese and Filipinos, enslaved for the purpose of providing sex to Japanese soldiers in military brothels in Northeast and Southeast Asia during the 1930s and early ’40s.
| Philadelphia Chinatown Wins Stadium Fight (in National News) India's Global Talent Korean Women Expose War Atrocities Through Art Emil Amok: |
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