Former comfort-woman center turned into rubbish dump

亚洲最大慰安所旧址损毁严重 成垃圾中转站(图)

2012年11月，南京市有关方面称，位于南京利济巷的侵华日军慰安所旧址已经立项保护，将建成慰安妇历史陈列馆。如今已经过去1年的时间，利济巷一带的慰安所旧址至今没有得到保护，而且比1年前的情况更差，现在该旧址西面的院子已经被街道当作垃圾中转站使用。 [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.