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Comfort Women 1944 – American Soldiers Shocked by Japan’s Hidden War Crime.
In World War II, there were moments so shocking that even battle-hardened soldiers stood in silence. In August 1944, after 78 days of brutal fighting, U.S. troops entered the Burmese village of Mattkina. What they found there was not just liberation—it was the opening of one of the darkest secrets of the war.

Inside a stifling building, American soldiers discovered 20 young Korean women—frail, terrified, deceived with promises of factory jobs, only to be enslaved in the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system. For the liberators, the scene was incomprehensible. This was not random cruelty; it was an organized military policy.

The evidence was undeniable: Interrogation Report No.49, black-and-white photographs, Signal Corps film footage, and financial ledgers revealed a vast network of sexual slavery stretching from China and the Philippines to Okinawa, Java, and the Dutch East Indies. Hundreds of thousands of women, many still teenagers, were forced into an industrial-scale system of abuse, regulated with military precision.

Yet liberation did not bring recognition. Unlike POWs or civilian internees, these women were not officially acknowledged. They returned home in silence, burdened with shame, illness, and trauma.

Only decades later, when survivors such as Kim Haksoon (Korea), Maria Rosa Henson (Philippines), and Jan Ruff O’Hern (Netherlands) broke the silence, did the world begin to understand. Their courage proved that freedom is not complete without justice, memory, and dignity.

00:00 Discovery in Burma, 1944 – U.S. soldiers find 20 enslaved Korean women.

05:37 The vast comfort women system uncovered across Asia and the Pacific.

10:22 Military evidence: interrogation reports, photographs, films, and medical records.

15:48 Postwar silence – Tokyo Trials overlook survivors, justice denied.

20:11 1990s testimonies – survivors speak out, monuments rise worldwide.

What you’ve just witnessed is not only history—it is a truth that was hidden for decades. These women waited a lifetime for recognition, and today the responsibility is ours: to ensure their stories are never forgotten.

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