Korean Victim of WWII Sex Slavery Who Fought for Japan’s Apology Dies
She campaigned for a formal apology and reparations from Japan for what it did to thousands of women like her, mostly Korean, during World War II.
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India anger as judge frees man accused of raping wife who then died
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Marian Turski, Auschwitz survivor who warned of danger of indifference, dies at 98
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