[ENG SUB] Scarlet Letter in Uganda and KIM BOK DONG - Newstapa

Here is a story to remember. It's about peace and human rights. It's also about how these amazing women, survivors of sexual violence in conflicts, met each other despite living continents away.

The so-called 'comfort women' or the Japanese military sexual slavery is a war crime committed during WW II just like the Holocaust. Over the years, hundreds of victims of Japan's wartime sexual slavery in Korea have courageously given testimonies before the public - one of the most symbolic figures being human rights activist Kim Bok-dong.

Even after her death in 2019, she continues to inspire countless people around the world to take up her fight to demand a proper apology from the Japanese government and seek justice. Her story and spirit have also touched many women in Uganda. They, too, survived sexual violence during Uganda's civil war by Joseph Kony's notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).

In November 2019, KCIJ-Newstapa went to the African country to record how they were fighting stigma with solidarity and how Kim Bok-dong's supporting it.

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