Protester, 80, sets himself on fire
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AN 80-year-old South Korean set himself on fire yesterday during a protest calling for Japan to apologize for forcing Korean girls and women to work in military brothels during World War II.
The self-immolation occurred during a regular weekly demonstration outside the Japanese embassy ahead of the August 15 anniversary marking 70 years since the end of Japan’s colonial occupation of the Korean Peninsula.
With the anniversary looming, yesterday’s protest was larger than usual, with about 2,000 demonstrators, including three of the 47 known surviving Korean “comfort women,” organizers said.
Bystanders covered the man with protest banners to put out the flames and paramedics took him to hospital.
The man, named as Choi Hyun, is in a critical condition.
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