The last sex slave in the country died

The Taipei Women’s Aid Foundation, which works for the welfare of women in Taiwan, announced in a press release on May 22 that the 92-year-old woman, who was declared a sex slave (Comfort Women) by the Imperial Japanese soldiers during World War II and believed to be the last such woman in the country, passed away on May 10, it announced.

“The Women’s Aid Foundation will continue to advocate for Taiwan’s curriculum, the National Museum of History, and history books to record the historical truth about sex slaves in Taiwan so that history is not destroyed by the death of a person,” says the statement from the foundation. . “We will continue to educate and publicize the damages of sexual violence against women during war, the damages of gender-based violence against women, and we will continue to demand that the Japanese government apologize and provide compensation to the woman and her family members,” said. saying.

SUPPOSED TO HAVE 200 THOUSAND WOMEN

The Taipei Women’s Aid Foundation announced that 2,000 of these women, said to be 200,000 in total, were Taiwanese and that they had identified 59 living in 1992.

In 2018, a memorial to women who were forced into sexual slavery during the war was erected in Tainan, Taiwan. (DHA)