Women's Int'l War Crimes Tribunal to open in Tokyo

Women's Int'l War Crimes Tribunal to open in Tokyo

TOKYO, Japan - Gabrielle McDonald (2nd from L), former president of the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal, speaks at a news conference at a Tokyo hotel Dec. 6, two days before the opening of the Women's International War Crimes Tribunal organized by civic groups. McDonald, who will serve as a judge at the tribunal, was joined at the news meeting by six women forced by the Imperial Japanese Army into sexual slavery during World War II.

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