While serving as a "comfort woman" Ms. Chong Ok Sun witnessed the Japanese torture a Korean girl who asked why they were forced to service up to forty men a day. A Japanese commander ordered her to be beaten with a sword while the other "comfort women" watched. The soldiers stripped the girl, tied her arms and legs, and rolled her over a board covered in nails "until the nails were covered with blood and pieces of her flesh." She was then decapitated. One Japanese officer told the witnesses that "it's easy to kill you all, easier than killing dogs" and suggested that the flesh of the dead girl would be boiled and the survivors forced to eat it.

One "comfort woman who resisted fiercely was murdered by having her head and limbs tied to horses and being ripped apart in front of others.

In 1941 Hwang Geum Joo was ordered by her school to report to the Hamhung train station, where she was put on a Japanese military train. She was taken to a large compound in Kilim where the women stayed in tin huts. They were raped repeatedly. After two weeks, they were sent to "comfort stations" where they were forced to service at least thirty to forty soldiers and more on Sundays and holidays. Ms. Hwang was once beaten so badly that she was unconscious for three days. The women were frequently injected with shots of a drug called "606" and they suffered from bleeding, swelling, and infertility. Of the twenty women who had come with Ms. Hwang from Hamhung, she was the only survivor. She now experiences periods of deafness and swelling of the knees and buttocks.

A Korean "comfort woman" who contracted venereal disease and, as a result, infected fifty Japanese soldiers was "sterilized" by having a hot iron bar placed in her vagina.

A woman who "refused to bathe" was hung upside down from a tree, beaten with rifles, had her nipplescut off. She was finally shot through the vagina.

Kim Sang Hee was abducted from Korea by a group of men in 1934 at the age of fourteen. She wastaken to a railway station where about a hundred other girls were waiting. Ms. Kim was forciblytransported to Suzhou, China, taken to a "comfort station" and raped repeatedly by Japanese soldiers.The little girl attempted suicide on the first night. Ms. Kim served as a "comfort woman" for nine years.

In 1943, Prescila Bartonico was abducted by Japanese soldiers in the Phillippines at the age of seventeen. She was forced to watch the rape of her cousin and was then raped herself in her own home. Ms. Bartonico was then taken to a "comfort station" that used to be a school where she was raped by up to eight soldiers a day.

Born in China, Zhu Qiaomei was forced to become a "comfort woman" when a Japanese battalion of sixty to seventy soldiers was stationed in her town after the Japanese invasion. Zhu Qiaomei was one of seven victims who were forced to report for work at the "comfort station," although they were allowed to live in their own homes. The women were also raped in their own homes. When the sexual assaults began Zhu Qiaomei was three months pregnant. She endured repeated rapes during her entire pregnancy and after her child was born.

Maxima Regala de la Cruz was abducted from her town in the Philippines in 1944 at the age of fifteen. She and her mother were taken to a Japanese garrison and locked up. Ms. Regala was then raped at saber point by a Japanese soldier. Ms. Regala and her mother were forced to service Japanese soldiers every day.
 

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Hwang Keum-ju
Jin Kyung-paeng
Kang Duk-kyung
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