NYT senior staff editor. #Documentary maker: 1st: "The Duck Diaries" https://t.co/V4fkaijs5f ; In-Progress: "Winning At Life" https://t.co/UcyUeH7Rbg
Feb 1, 2019 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
This thread is dedicated to Kim Bok-dong, who was taken from her home in Korea at 14 and made a sex slave by the Japanese military. She was one of hundreds of thousands (estimates vary). She died Monday.
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“On weekdays, I had to take 15 soldiers a day,” Ms. Kim once said. “On Saturdays and Sundays, it was more than 50. We were treated worse than beasts.”
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