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Oct 2022
1h 22m

#202: The Rape of Nanking & The Traffick...

STEPHANIE SOO
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They were called “Comfort Women,” but their lives would not be in any sense comfortable. They were kidnapped, tortured, and held hostage to be assaulted by military officials. Soldiers had their own name for them; it was “public toilets.” Most of these women either died in captivity from murder, disease, or from the sheer violence of their assaults. But don’ ... Show More
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