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Victims absent from S Korea's 'comfort women' rally amid graft allegations over ex-leader

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It's about time that the surviving Comfort Women recognized and said "no more" to these organizations that have made a living out of selling their suffering. Hope the women turn on the Chongdaehyup as well, as they pressured CW from accepting monies from Japan, coached them for press interviews and have effectively controlled South Korea's relations with Japan through manipulation of public sentiment. The money that Japan has paid in accordance with the 2015 Comfort Women Agreement has still not reached the women.

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The Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance for the Issues of Military Sexual Slavery by Japan support for these pensioners, has never amounted to more than to advance a political agenda.

A cynical, also my I suggest a criminal act. These frail pensioners deserve to be compensated. I have never denied their pain and suffering is war crime.

Yoon Mi-hyang, politically weaponized the brutality inflicted on the victims, to further a poisonous agenda of hatred and loathing aimed primarily at modern day Japan/people.

A deliberate policy/campaign strategy of personal attacks. Combined with the proliferation of retribution over reconciliation,publicly wheeling out wheelchair bound frailty, in the latter stages of lives, for the sole purpose to fan belligerent discontent.

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Out of all the money that has been sent, since the first agreement, reached the victims ?

Where has that money gone ?

STOP using these victims in political games.

Release the previous payments sent by Japan to them, as they are nearing the end of their lives and have already suffered so much during WW2 and since.

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"The Wednesday demonstration should end," Yonhap news agency quoted Lee saying. "We don't even know how and where money comes from anyway, but the donations should be used for us, but they never have."

The issue of justice for the women aside, I hope this organization withers and dies like Sea Shepard did.

gary

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Are Korean politicians more corrupt than those in other countries, or are the Korean press better at finding and calling out the corruption?

As for funds not going to those for whom they are intended, I remember reading an article over a decade ago that said that the funds negotiated by the Korean government to go from the Japanese government to comfort women did not, for the most part, go to the victims. Why not?

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No kidding they weren't there; this isn't about them. It's about Korea trying to stick it to Japan in a childish way and to extort money for corrupt politicians and faux concern groups.

Bunch of losers.

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Let us remember that Japan's rustless imperialism is the root cause of nearly all of South Korea's problems. There would not be a "comfort women" issue right now if Japan had not enslaved thousands of young Korean women into sexual servitude.

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[Trick of comfort women fraud]

In May 2020, Lee Yong-soo, the most famous former Korean comfort woman who made a fake testimony at the U.S. Congress, and succeeded in bashing Japan, finally fell out with a long-time comrade Yoon Mee-hyang (Yun Mi-Hyang), a former leader of the comfort women support group, "Korean Council".

Then, Lee Yong-soo exposed the inside affairs of the Korean Council and Yoon Mee-hyang.

The cause is an ugly fight over the distribution of donations over the years.

Comfort women lie for pity, vanity, and money, and support groups lie for political purposes and money.

They have no resistance to lying for the sake of their profits.

As a result, Westerners who don't know that blindly believe what they say.

See the following chronological process of the comfort women fraud.

https://ameblo.jp/truth-opener/entry-12598545118.html

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