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Japan asks US to remove memorial to Korean sex slaves
Monday May 21, 2012 06:21:09 PM,
IANS
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Washington: A team of
Japanese officials recently visited New York to ask the US to
remove a plaque outside a public library that serves as a memorial
to Korean sex slaves captured by Japan during World War II.
The Japanese officials visited Palisades Park last month, after
the area installed in 2010 a memorial to thousands of Korean women
that were enslaved by the Japanese army during the World War II,
the Daily Mail reported.
The plaque reads: "In memory of the more than 200,000 women and
girls who were abducted by the armed forces of the government of
imperial Japan. Known as 'comfort women', they endured human
rights violations that no peoples should leave unrecognized. Let
us never forget the horrors of crimes against humanity."
The town -- where more than half of the 20,000 residents are of
Korean descent -- said it was the first such dedication to the
so-called "Comfort Women" and refused to accept the Japanese
officials' request.
After the war, many of the women were brutally slaughtered and
their story was first known in 1991, the report said.
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