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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

S. Korean slavery victim seeks UN justice as time runs out

Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

Thirty years after going public with her story of abduction, rape and forced prostitution by Japan’s wartime military, Lee Yong-soo fears she’s running out of time to get a closure to her ordeal.

The 93-year-old is the face of a dwindling group of South Korean sexual slavery survivors who have been demanding since the early 1990s that the Japanese government fully accept culpability and offer an unequivocal apology.

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