Memorial day for victims of Japan's sexual slavery
Lee Yong-soo (in wheelchair), a 96-year-old victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, attends a ceremony in Seoul on Aug. 14, 2024, to mark International Memorial Day for Comfort Women. Some 200,000 Asian women, mostly Koreans, were forcibly sent to front-line brothels to work as sex slaves, euphemistically called "comfort women," for Japanese troops during World War II. (Yonhap)
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