Chinese "Comfort Women" recruited by force by Japanese aggressors during the WWII exceeded 200,000, Professor Su Zhiliang with Shanghai Normal University lately said, who is an expert on this problem.
Professor Su told his investigations into Japanese Imperial Army's "comfort women" crimes committed in China at a conference held Wednesday for making a study into the history of Nanjing Massacre.
Incomplete figures show that there were then as many as 22 provinces and cities in China known to have Japanese "comfort centers" and "comfort women" ravaged by this invading force from Japan.
Much headway has been made in making a study into the "comfort women" problem in China in recent years, Su added.
Some former sites of Japanese "comfort centers" have been discovered and, many survivors who had suffered from Japanese soldiers' sex violence no longer keep silence and stand up bravely to condemn the inhuman crimes committed by those barbarous two-footed Japanese savages.
Professor Su, who is leading a research center to make investigations among former Chinese "comfort women" recruited at bayonet point by Japanese invaders, has conducted investigation with his colleagues in a county of Shanxi Province, where some 40 victims have been found.
Investigation shows that Chinese women forced by Japanese soldiers to serve as their sex slaves in this county alone numbered over one thousand.
These "comfort women" survivals, old and ill now, are for the most living lonely and in a deplorable state, Su said.
Recruitment of "comfort women" is a collective crime organized by invading Japanese troops, and not to say a collective crime conducted by the Japanese nation.
The Japanese government must look historical facts in the face, shoulder historical responsibilities and make rightful compensations to all victims in the war they had launched and for all crimes they had committed in China.
(People's Daily)
