victims were children, as old as 75 years old, there were saying that there was nothing to do
with sex, but dehumanizing the enemy. If you were a man and you will see that your
daughter, your mother, being raped...you will not be able to fight.
There was a book released by Irish Chang also titled Rape of Nanking. She [compiled] the
testimonies, Several years after she released the book, she killed herself. She couldn’t take
what was she reading, she was just doing the testimonies.
[Photo in slide] This photo - this woman holding her baby - after she was raped, she
was decapitated.
“Comfort women”, 1938-1945. The whole idea was sexual slavery. The justification of
comfort women is supposedly they give comfort to the Japanese soldiers in terms of sexual
intercourse. So they need the women to give comfort. They were saying that the violence in
the Rape of Nanking was because the Japanese were not able to have comfort/sexual
intercourse. They abducted young women all over Southeast Asia, and it was forced
prostitution. The experience was about 50 men in one day, they serviced the comfort women
sexually. And ang pinakamababang presyo [ay] Chinese. And until now the Filipino women
have not received that justice that they have been demanding. Kung mga rebulto lang ng
comfort women ay ang sarili pa nating pamahalaan ay kailangan ng magandang relasyon
with Japan, but you cannot deny that this has happened. The lolas, they are dying, I think
there are five left.
Bangladeshi Liberation War, 1971 . Rape and forced impregnation. Bangladesh launched
their liberation against Pakistan and the Pakistani army [conducted] widespread rape and
forced impregnation of Bangladeshi women.
The Pakistani army wanted the women to give birth to Pakistani ethnicity, as if the women
were just vessels. When Bangladesh had their independence, the women were considered
“heroes”, they “sacrificed for the nation” because of them being raped by the Pakistani army
during the liberation war.. They have not received justice up to this day.
Khmer Rouge Regime, 1975-79. Forced marriage and marital rape; rape as torture. In the
Khmer Rouge regime, the ones wearing eyeglasses are the intellectuals, pinatay lahat ng
nakasalamin. In terms of sexual violence, it was forced marriage and marital rape, and mass
weddings were conducted. Halimbawa, kung may asawa ka prior to the regime, you will
have to be married again. You have to undergo marital union for the revolution. But it didn't
end there, after being forcibly married, they were forced to consummate their marital union.
Pinilit ang mga babae ng kanilang comrades, you have now marital rape. Khmer rouge has
not recognized sexual violence as a violation.
Guatemalan Indigenous Women, 1981-82. Rape and sexual slavery, 90% were indigenous
women. It had a connection with land. Indigenous people around the world connected to the
land, same with other countries. If your enemy seeks to remove you from that land, you have
to be terrorized to drive you out of the land. The Guatemalan military...so they will have to
leave their land
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