“I don’t want to live anymore,” the frail woman said in a husky voice. Reaching the end of her life, in pain from several severe diseases, she has terrible memories of her earlier days.
"Comfort women" recount abuse
When I met Zhang in her dark and shabby home, she recalled the day Japanese soldiers broke into her house and abducted her at the age of 15.
"Comfort women" recount abuse
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Zhang Xiantu is one of the surviving Chinese "comfort women", as those forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels are euphemistically called.
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