90-year-old former sex slave victim Yi Yong-su shares her story at French Parliament

  • 6 years ago
Marking International Women's Day,... a Korean victim of Japan's wartime sexual slavery, Yi Yong-su, was at the French Parliament in Paris on Thursday,... to share her emotional, yet shocking story to French lawmakers and government officials.
Among those listening to the 90-year-old's tearful testimony,... were two Korean-adoptees in lawmaker Joachim Son-Forget ( ) and former Senator,... Jean-Vincent Place ( - ).
After her visit to the French Parliament,.. Grandmother Yi held a one woman protest in front of the UNESCO headquarters in Paris,... to protest the agency's delay in listing sex slave records on its "Memory of the World" register.