Comfort women
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Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term comfort women is a tr
Korean comfort women being questioned by the United States Army after the Siege of Myitkyina, August 14, 1944
A Japanese military comfort station in China, photographed on February 7, 1938
An ethnic Chinese comfort woman being interviewed by a flying officer of the Royal Air Force at Rangoon, August 8, 1945
Chinese and Malayan girls forcibly taken from Penang by the Japanese to work as 'comfort girls' for the troops
Jan Ruff-O'Herne
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Jeanne Alida "Jan" Ruff-O'Herne was a Dutch Australian of Irish ancestry and human rights activist known for campaigning internationally against war rape. During World War II, Ruff-O'Herne was forced
Comfort women
…Army to become forced sex slaves in February 1944. They were systematically beaten and raped day and night. As a victim of the incident, in 1990, Jan Ruff-O'Herne testified to a U.S. House of Representatives committee: Many stories have been told about the horrors, brutalities, suffering and starvation of Dutch…
Portrait taken in March 1942, shortly before the Japanese invasion of Indonesia