@pussynonym:
Human trafficking for USA soldiers
@celestincirque Sep 11, 2025:
These women were not prostitutes. They were trafficked, enslaved, raped & beaten. Aided, abetted & condoned by high ranking officials & politicians in S Korea & the US. Disgraceful & deliberate use of such language serves only to lessen the horrors inflicted on women & girls.
@Susan_E_J_USA:
They are victims of rape.
@sugarlaaaa:
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@ohleshistoires:
Do your job better ! this is sex trafficking not sex work! Shame on you
@heythereelizah:
Prostitutes?? You mean sex trafficking? They are being raped by American soldiers! The U.S. is truly a rotten war machine
@nomelia_2:
“women forced to work as prostitutes” –> TRAFFICKED
“for sex workers hired to serve” if they were FORCED they were not hired, Clare Lee you are vile
Could have been her editor(s)
@Read___Now:
Stop abusing women!and girls!
@zedz145795:
How can any self respecting nation house US Army bases? Disgusting.
@royalindian040:
Being a US ally is fatal..They just use you and when the time comes, feed you to the dogs for their selfish interests..Trump has clearly shown what an unpredictable foreign policy, US has..They are racist and don’t respect their own allies..
@PLAST1C1N3:
only 7200 USD per victim?? thats absolutely astounding how not enough this is for the absolutely horrific actions the imperialist US military did to these women.
@fattyflowerz:
Did…yall just call sex trafficking ‘prostitution’????
@thezeemoore:
Jesus Christ do American soldiers on international bases do anything besides terrorizing the locals and committing sex crimes?
@hakeemthatwhat:
Why in the fuck would they be forced to be sex workers especially for men who aren’t even their countries soldiers??? Why is this a thing? Everyone who abused these women need to be burned alive
@RnaudBertrand Sep 11, 2025:
While everyone focuses on the Charlie Kirk story, this deserves at least equal attention: the U.S. military, in collusion with the South Korean government, maintained during decades a system where tens of thousands of women were forced into sexual servitude for U.S. soldiers, many of whom were minors.
This isn’t speculation: the South Korean supreme court ruled in 2022 that the government had illegally operated these brothels, in a way where the women were subjected to debt bondage and unable to leave. In fact, as per the New York Times, “all the women [in this system] were held in debt bondage,” so they were all, effectively, sex slaves.
The scale of it was so insane that the economy around these brothels (bars, etc.) was estimated to make up about 25% of South Korea’s GDP during the 1960s and 70s.
Sordid detail: if one of these women developed a STD, she would be placed into quarantine facilities that US soldiers referred to as “Monkey Houses,” (pictured below) because of the screams of women demanding to be let out. The women also had to wear numbered badges or tags, like commodity products.
More than 100 of these women have now filed a landmark lawsuit against the U.S. military to hold it accountable as “the real culprit” in that state-sponsored sex trade.
The women however, under agreements between the US and South Korea, cannot sue the U.S. military directly – only their own government. So, perversely, even if the court finds the U.S. military was “the real culprit” in this system of sexual slavery, it’s South Korean taxpayers who will have to pay for that.Isn’t it always taxpayers who are forced to pay for crimes by their own gov’ts?
Korean women target US military in landmark forced prostitution lawsuit by Claire LEE, September 9, 2025, Yahoo!News
This file picture taken in Dongducheon in September 2024 shows a building slated for demolition that was once a clinic for sex workers hired to serve US soldiers in South Korea (Anthony WALLACE)
More than 100 South Korean women forced to work as prostitutes for US soldiers stationed in the country have filed a landmark lawsuit accusing Washington of abuse, their lawyers said Tuesday.
Historians and activists say tens of thousands of South Korean women worked for state-sanctioned brothels from the 1950s to 1980s, serving US troops stationed in country to protect the South from North Korea.
In 2022, South Korea’s top court ruled that the government had illegally “established, managed and operated” such brothels for the US military, ordering it to pay around 120 plaintiffs compensation.
Last week, 117 victims filed a fresh lawsuit, this time officially accusing — and seeking an apology from — the US military, for the first time.
The lawsuit seeks 10 million won ($7,200) in compensation per victim.
Unlike the better-known “comfort women” used by Japanese soldiers until the end of World War II, those who worked for the US troops have received relatively limited attention, largely due to Washington being Seoul’s key and longtime security ally.
The economy surrounding military brothels in US base towns, including restaurants, barbershops and bars catering to American GIs, made up about 25 percent of South Korea’s GDP during the 1960s and 70s, according to historians.
“I still cannot forget being beaten by US soldiers — slapped for lowering my head while pouring drinks, for not smiling, or for no reason at all,” one of the plaintiffs, in her 60s and who did not wish to give her name, said in a statement sent to AFP.
She said she was only 17 when she was tricked into the job — she thought she was going to be a bartender, but was forced into sex work and told she could not leave due to her “debt”.
‘I couldn’t walk’
“Every night we were dragged to US soldiers and sexually abused. Every week we were forced to undergo venereal disease tests. If there was the slightest abnormality, we were locked in a small room and injected with a thick needle of strong penicillin,” she said.
“The shots were so harsh that my legs gave out and I couldn’t even walk.”
In a joint statement, women’s rights activists supporting the victims said the US military “ignored the South Korean Constitution” and stripped the women of their personal freedom and “destroyed their lives”.
The suit names the South Korean government as the defendant, since under existing laws Seoul must compensate victims of illegal acts committed by US soldiers on duty and later seek reimbursement from Washington, lawyers said.
“This lawsuit seeks to hold both the South Korean government and the US military authorities jointly liable for the unlawful acts,” lawyer Ha Ju-hee told AFP.
The US still stations around 28,500 troops in South Korea to help protect it against nuclear-armed North Korea.
The United States Forces Korea (USFK) told AFP it was “aware of the reports regarding the issue”, adding “we will not comment while legal proceedings are ongoing”.
“We affirm that we do not condone any behavior that violates Republic of Korea laws, rules, or directives, and we remain committed to maintaining the highest standards of good order and discipline.” the USFK said.
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