WWII sex slave denial sparks outrage - No proof women forced to serve: Japanese leader

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/281951,CST-NWS-japan04.article

March 4, 2007
BY CARL FREIRE
TOKYO -- Anyone who doubts that the Japanese army forced Asian women into sexual slavery in World War II should "face the truth," South Korea's foreign minister said Friday as outrage grew over comments by Japan's prime minister that there was no evidence of the enslavement.

Women's rights activists in the Philippines and a group of lawmakers in South Korea also denounced the remarks by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Thursday that there was no proof that "comfort women" were forced into prostitution during the war.

200,000 women involved

One of the harshest comments came from 81-year-old Hilaria Bustamante of Manila, who said she was kept as a sex slave in a Japanese garrison for a year in 1942 as a 16-year-old.
"What he said has angered me," she said. "They think we are just like toilet paper that they can throw away after being used."

Historians say about 200,000 women -- mostly from Korea and China -- served in the Japanese military brothels throughout Asia in the 1930s and 1940s. Witnesses, victims and even some former Japanese soldiers say many of the women were kidnapped or otherwise forced into the brothels, where they could be raped by scores of soldiers a day.

Abe said Thursday there is no proof the women were forced into prostitution: "The fact is, there is no evidence to prove there was coercion."

[PCIntern]

1. "We destroyed all the evidence..."

so there isn't any...what's the matter with you?

...and how can you posibly believe these 35000 women? They all met at a stadium and made all this up. This is obvious.

:sarcasm: