Requiem ceremony for former comfort woman
Updated: 2013-08-15 09:36
(Agencies)
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Participants carry the portraits of Korean women who were made sex slaves by the Japanese military during World War II, during a requiem ceremony for former comfort woman Lee Yong-nyeo in central Seoul August 14, 2013. Lee, who was one of the few surviving sex slaves, or "comfort women", for wartime Japanese soldiers, died on Sunday, according to local media. [Photo/Agencies] |
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