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China – New Chinese Comfort Women Sex Slaves Files Evidence in NE China
Editor: Frank
Zhao – August 12, 2015
Seven files
related to comfort women were made public on
August 11 by a record office in Heilongjiang Province, northeast China,
the latest evidence to support allegations that Japan used women as
sex slaves during World War II.
"Evidence
proves that Japanese forces forcibly recruited and coerced Chinese and Korean
women to be sex slaves for the Japanese Imperial Army during the war,"
said Qi Xiujuan, head of the Heilongjiang Archive.
"These files
further support these accusations [...] and they will aid research into the
comfort women issue," Qi said.
An estimated
200,000 women were forced into sexual servitude in China during WWII, but only
a handful are still alive, of which many have admitted publicly that they were
used as comfort women. Thousands took their secret to the grave without
receiving an apology or compensation from the Japanese government.
The seven files
include evidence that there were several Japanese-run comfort woman stations in
the province in 1941 and 1942, and they had been run by the military police.
One of the files,
dated October 1941, outlined plans for a comfort woman station in Suifenhe City
that required "about 10 women to serve about 2,000 Japanese
soldiers". It went on to say that "ordinary soldiers could be
entertained for half an hour, and the time will extend to one hour for
high-ranking officers".
"The practice
is a violation of women's rights, and it exposes the cruelness of the Japanese
forces," Qi said.
The files are opened to Chinese citizens and foreign organizations or individuals for research.