Former comfort-woman center turned into rubbish dump

亞洲最大慰安所舊址損毀嚴重 成垃圾中轉站(圖)

2012年11月，南京市有關方面稱，位于南京利濟巷的侵華日軍慰安所舊址已經立項保護，將建成慰安婦歷史陳列館。如今已經過去1年的時間，利濟巷一帶的慰安所舊址至今沒有得到保護，而且比1年前的情況更差，現在該舊址西面的院子已經被街道當作垃圾中轉站使用。 [查看全文]

(ECNS) -- Li Ji Xiang (or Liji Lane), Asia's first and largest comfort woman center set up by Japanese invaders during Word War Ⅱ in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, has been turned into a waste transfer station.

Though a project aimed at protecting such centers was approved by local policy makers in 2012, no progress has been made so far.

The courtyard at the western part of the site is covered with a huge pile of construction waste and household refuse.

"All of this waste has been piled here for months by the neighborhood committee of the nearby Wulaocun Street," said a local cleaner.

An official from the neighborhood committee admitted that they had used the courtyard for that purpose. "We turned the site into a temporary waste transfer station because there was no place for residents here to store garbage."

An official from a local cultural affairs bureau responded on Wednesday, saying that no measures had been taken to preserve the site so far.