Taiwan’s first women’s rights and peace museum opens in Taipei. Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation selected Tuesday for the opening of AMA Museum as it is International Women’s Day. Ama stands for grandmother in Taiwanese.
The museum preserves the sad history of Taiwanese comfort women, female sex slaves forced by the Japanese, during the Second World War.
President Ma Ying-jeou attended the opening ceremony and spoke of the significance of the first museum on women’s rights in Taiwan.
Ma said, “We must preserve the history to let people understand it. It is not for revenge. Just like we usually commemorate a war, we’re not celebrating an invasion, but hoping people know what happened and do not forget the lessons learned.”
President Ma said he hopes to find justice for the Taiwanese comfort women and hope similar incidents never happen again