The Statue of Peace featuring a seated young woman, is decorated with flowers in Berlin on Oct 27, 2020. — AFP
ON a quiet street corner in Berlin’s Mitte district, a bronze statue of a young girl in a traditional Korean dress glitters in the sun.
Her fists are clenched, her expression tense. She is seated but her heels do not touch the ground. A shadow of an elderly woman is carved into the granite below her. Beside her is an empty chair.
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Global campaign on comfort women
Lee Yong-soo, a South Korean survivor of sexual slavery, examines a “comfort women” statue during its 2019 unveiling in Seoul. — Filepic/AP
A comfort woman statue is placed on a bus seat in Seoul during South Korea’s memorial day for the women in 2017. — Filepic/AP
The crowd move in for a closer look after a comfort women monument was unveiled in San Francisco in 2017. — Filepic/AP
A comfort women monument was unveiled in San Francisco in 2017.— Filepic
