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Modern-Day Comfort Women Face a Hell on Earth

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May 07, 2007
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Lee Ok-sun was 16 years old in July 1941 when she was grabbed off a dark street, tied up by two men and thrown into a truck with five other girls. Lee was taken to China, where she was forced to have sex with up to 40 men a day. Like countless other Korean women, she was forced into bondage by the Japanese, abducted in the black of night.

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