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Former comfort women victims caress a portrait of their friend Bae Chun-hui as they say goodbye during a memorial ceremony before her cremation, at the House of Sharing in Gwangju, Gyeonggi province, June 10. She is survived by 54 comfort women who were forced to serve as sexual slaves for the Japanese imperial army during World War II. Bae was a devout Buddhist and her ashes are being stored at Haein Temple in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Province. (by Kim Sung-gwang, staff photographer)