Ex-'comfort women' recite wartime plight

Ex-'comfort women' recite wartime plight

WASHINGTON, United States - Jan Ruff-O'Hearne, who was taken captive by the Japanese in Java, Indonesia, at the age of 19 and was forced to provide sex for the Japanese military during World War II, testified on the wartime plight before a subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington on Feb. 15.

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