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&#13;
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&#13;
MAPANIQUE, Philippines — On Nov. 23, 1944, Japanese soldiers stormed through this village, burning down houses and killing all the Filipino men they could find. They then herded dozens of women to a red mansion that had been turned into a garrison.&#13;
&#13;
There, the soldiers took turns violating the Filipinas; they raped a mother and her daughter at the same time in one of the many rooms.&#13;
&#13;
To this day, the women of Mapanique - many of those still alive are now in their 70s - talk about their ordeal with chilling clarity.&#13;
&#13;
[Women interviewed: Ester Dela Cruz-Balingit, Florencia Macapagal de la Peña, Januaria Galang Garcia, Juanita Maniego Briones, Leonora Hernandez Sumaway, Rosalina Manalastas Buco, Rosario Culala Buco, Virginia Manalastas Bangit]</text>
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&#13;
0:05&#13;
[we were on the grass under the heat of the sun]&#13;
0:13&#13;
[in the afternoon]&#13;
0:16&#13;
[two soldiers came out]&#13;
0:21&#13;
[and took me inside]&#13;
0:22&#13;
[to one of the room upstairs, I cried… he slapped me]&#13;
0:28&#13;
[I remembered what] they did [to my brother]&#13;
0:30&#13;
[I decided]&#13;
0:32&#13;
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0:36&#13;
[together with the other Japanese he undressed me]&#13;
0:40&#13;
[he then sent the other soldier to the door]&#13;
0:43&#13;
[when] companion [was on his way out he called him Captain Iwara]&#13;
0:51&#13;
[this is the stairs, the room]&#13;
0:58&#13;
[my sister and I were taken] &#13;
1:03&#13;
[to an area near a tree]&#13;
1:04&#13;
[and they succeeded in what they wanted to do] with us&#13;
1:07&#13;
we could not refuse&#13;
1:10&#13;
[we could only cry]&#13;
1:14&#13;
[I was looking for something to drink]&#13;
1:15&#13;
[what one Japanese did, he pulled me]&#13;
1:20&#13;
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1:22&#13;
[I could not]&#13;
1:23&#13;
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1:24&#13;
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1:29&#13;
[when he got] tired of me&#13;
1:32&#13;
[he did not mind me] anymore, [with the help of God] &#13;
1:38&#13;
[I was able to get out of the Bahay na Pula]&#13;
1:39&#13;
[I was only thirteen years old]&#13;
1:41&#13;
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1:44&#13;
[took me to the Bahay na Pula]&#13;
1:47&#13;
[for almost the whole afternoon] they did something to me&#13;
1:51&#13;
[at night I fought back and they stopped]&#13;
1:57&#13;
[then they held my] two feet &#13;
2:04&#13;
[and] hit me&#13;
2:07&#13;
[I lost consciousness]&#13;
2:10&#13;
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2:15&#13;
[my hands]&#13;
2:19&#13;
[I was pleading] with them&#13;
2:21&#13;
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2:23&#13;
[they kept us inside the house]&#13;
2:28&#13;
[at midnight]&#13;
2:29&#13;
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2:31&#13;
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2:34&#13;
[but we were not allowed to go home]&#13;
2:40&#13;
[when the soldiers saw me come out of the house]&#13;
2:45&#13;
[they immediately grabbed me]&#13;
2:46&#13;
[by the arm]&#13;
2:47&#13;
[while] one was behind&#13;
2:52&#13;
[when we were walking towards the schoolhouse]&#13;
2:55&#13;
[they passed by]&#13;
2:57&#13;
[the big house]&#13;
2:59&#13;
[owned by the richest in our] village&#13;
3:03&#13;
[we entered the house]&#13;
3:04&#13;
[and they asked me to undress]&#13;
3:08&#13;
[I was very frightened]&#13;
3:09&#13;
[I didn’t want to take off my dress] and they even [covered my hand]&#13;
3:14&#13;
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3:18&#13;
[I was]&#13;
3:19&#13;
[thrown off to a corner]&#13;
3:23&#13;
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3:26&#13;
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3:30&#13;
[they also used the bayonet]&#13;
3:33&#13;
[to rip off my underwear]&#13;
3:36&#13;
[yes, I did not reach Bahay na Pula &#13;
3:38&#13;
[but] they also [did] the same thing to me&#13;
3:41&#13;
[they raped me]&#13;
3:43&#13;
at the age of thirteen years&#13;
3:46&#13;
[I had now experience]&#13;
3:48&#13;
[and what] they did to me was very painful&#13;
3:51&#13;
[my God, i thought there was a God watching over me]&#13;
3:55&#13;
but there was none [why did he allow it to happen?]&#13;
4:01&#13;
[The following morning, they let us go]&#13;
4:04&#13;
[we could hardly stand because of hunger and what we suffered in the hands of the]&#13;
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Japanese&#13;
4:10&#13;
the whole night&#13;
4:11&#13;
i could not [walk]&#13;
4:13&#13;
[my companion was supporting me]&#13;
4:16&#13;
we had no [house] to go home to&#13;
4:19&#13;
everything [was in ashes]&#13;
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4:22&#13;
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4:23&#13;
we wanted to change clothes [there were no clothes]&#13;
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[when I woke up I was bleeding] not just from [my wound] but from other&#13;
4:32&#13;
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4:36&#13;
[I felt very weak]&#13;
4:39&#13;
[I crawled towards the rice fields where I hid] for three days&#13;
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[without food or] water&#13;
4:48&#13;
[when I reached Candaba]&#13;
4:51&#13;
[…anywhere I’d been]&#13;
4:52&#13;
[I could not answer… and cried…]&#13;
4:55&#13;
then i told [them] what was done [to] me&#13;
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my father said&#13;
5:02&#13;
[those Japanese are animals, we] were defenseless [against what they did]&#13;
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[I got sick]&#13;
5:13&#13;
[my body weakened, including my lungs]&#13;
5:18&#13;
[to this day]&#13;
5:19&#13;
the incidents that [happened to me are still on] my mind&#13;
5:24&#13;
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5:27&#13;
[because] what they had done [was very painful]&#13;
5:32&#13;
[those were very painful experiences… I can’t…]&#13;
5:35&#13;
anymore&#13;
5:39&#13;
[I, on the other hand, was able] to get married&#13;
5:42&#13;
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5:48&#13;
[my husband and I were together only for a short while]&#13;
5:53&#13;
[in less than three years…]&#13;
5:57&#13;
[he got sick…]&#13;
6:00&#13;
[…alcohol]&#13;
6:02&#13;
[everytime he came home]&#13;
6:04&#13;
[he’d tell me]&#13;
6:10&#13;
[better to have a leftover dog than a leftover person]&#13;
6:19&#13;
[that’s what he said until he died]&#13;
6:25&#13;
[that is why I seek… we must fight for justice for us women]&#13;
6:28&#13;
[so that this will never]&#13;
6:29&#13;
happen again&#13;
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&#13;
***&#13;
&#13;
MAPANIQUE, Philippines — On Nov. 23, 1944, Japanese soldiers stormed through this village, burning down houses and killing all the Filipino men they could find. They then herded dozens of women to a red mansion that had been turned into a garrison.&#13;
&#13;
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&#13;
To this day, the women of Mapanique - many of those still alive are now in their 70s - talk about their ordeal with chilling clarity.&#13;
&#13;
[Women interviewed: Ester Dela Cruz-Balingit, Florencia Macapagal de la Peña, Januaria Galang Garcia, Juanita Maniego Briones, Leonora Hernandez Sumaway, Rosalina Manalastas Buco, Rosario Culala Buco, Virginia Manalastas Bangit]</text>
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&#13;
0:42&#13;
the evidence presented before the women's international war crimes&#13;
0:46&#13;
tribunal two thousand&#13;
0:49&#13;
demonstrates that the women&#13;
0:50&#13;
and girls [in Mapanique]&#13;
0:52&#13;
we're subjected to multiple extreme forms of violence as part of the&#13;
0:57&#13;
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1:00&#13;
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1:05&#13;
the soldiers rounded up the women and girls and cost them to be detained at&#13;
1:10&#13;
the [Bahay na Pula]&#13;
1:12&#13;
where they were subjected to mass rape, [gang rape]&#13;
1:15&#13;
or other forms of sexual violence&#13;
1:18&#13;
as [found] by the [IMTFE]&#13;
1:21&#13;
[and confirmed] by the testimony [on this case]&#13;
1:24&#13;
the Japanese soldiers routinely engaged [in rape]&#13;
1:28&#13;
[accompanied] by [other sadistic brutality] &#13;
1:32&#13;
[in the Asia-Pacific War.] The evidence [further shows]&#13;
1:36&#13;
that the [rape] and other [crimes at Mapanique] were committed by forces &#13;
1:40&#13;
[under Yamashita’s] authority and control and as part of a [campaign]&#13;
1:45&#13;
of [subjugational] punishment&#13;
1:49&#13;
[ordered and approved by General Yamashita in October nineteen forty-four]&#13;
1:53&#13;
as part of [his] guiding principles for Philippine [operations]&#13;
2:02&#13;
[In] nineteen forty-four, twenty-third [of November]&#13;
2:05&#13;
[very early in the morning]&#13;
2:07&#13;
we heard loud&#13;
2:08&#13;
[bomb explosions]&#13;
2:10&#13;
and sounds of machine [guns]&#13;
2:14&#13;
[my parents took us under the house]&#13;
2:18&#13;
[we had a dark hole there]&#13;
2:23&#13;
[my mother wanted us to go down]&#13;
2:27&#13;
[my brother said don’t, because]&#13;
2:29&#13;
there might be stray bullets, [we might be hit, I said]&#13;
2:34&#13;
[why are the dogs barking?]&#13;
2:39&#13;
[be quiet, my mother said]&#13;
2:41&#13;
[the Japanese might be with them]&#13;
2:49&#13;
[when there was already light, we went back to our house]&#13;
2:53&#13;
[Japanese soldiers]&#13;
2:54&#13;
[were there] searching&#13;
2:58&#13;
[and taking everything they liked of our belongings]&#13;
3:01&#13;
[we] went down&#13;
3:03&#13;
[in a short while]&#13;
3:04&#13;
[the Japanese came]&#13;
3:07&#13;
[when they came in front] of our house [they shouted, you men calm down]&#13;
3:15&#13;
[because my father was afraid]&#13;
3:17&#13;
[that the Japanese would shoot us]&#13;
3:19&#13;
[he went out]&#13;
3:21&#13;
[they asked us to calm down]&#13;
3:26&#13;
[then two of them]&#13;
3:28&#13;
[took my brother] &#13;
3:30&#13;
[he was separated from us]&#13;
3:41&#13;
[they asked us to go to the school house]&#13;
3:43&#13;
[my brother]&#13;
3:44&#13;
[tried to run away]&#13;
3:45&#13;
[he was hit by cannon fire]&#13;
3:47&#13;
[and died] instantly&#13;
3:49&#13;
[we were not able to [bury him]&#13;
3:51&#13;
[his body was eaten by dogs]&#13;
3:54&#13;
rounded up [the men]&#13;
3:56&#13;
[including my brother]&#13;
4:01&#13;
[in the school house they] were shot&#13;
4:05&#13;
[I told my mother] do not make any sound [lest] the Japanese [turn] to you&#13;
4:10&#13;
[so she kept quiet even if she saw my brother killed]&#13;
4:16&#13;
[after all the men] were killed&#13;
4:19&#13;
[the bodies were taken inside] the schoolhouse, [the schoolhouse] was set on&#13;
4:23&#13;
fire&#13;
4:26&#13;
they [burned the whole village]&#13;
4:33&#13;
[when I saw what happened] &#13;
4:37&#13;
[I was very frightened]&#13;
4:39&#13;
[the Japanese took]&#13;
4:40&#13;
[the bodies of the men they killed]&#13;
4:43&#13;
to the school house [and burned] them&#13;
4:47&#13;
[all the time, they had]&#13;
4:49&#13;
[mortars aimed at us]&#13;
 4:54&#13;
[like the father of]&#13;
4:55&#13;
[Tarcila Sampang]&#13;
4:57&#13;
[Tatang Syano Sampang]&#13;
5:00&#13;
[what they did to him was so horrendous]&#13;
5:03&#13;
[that one would cry] from watching&#13;
5:05&#13;
[they lopped off his penis]&#13;
5:09&#13;
[and placed it on his mouth]&#13;
5:14&#13;
[like a cigarette, he was screaming, he was crying, we could not]&#13;
5:18&#13;
bear to watch [him]&#13;
5:26&#13;
[like the man Gonzales]&#13;
5:35&#13;
[they sliced his feces and asked the other to eat it]&#13;
5:36&#13;
after they had lunch&#13;
5:39&#13;
[they took us to the Bahay na Pula and held us there]&#13;
5:43&#13;
[later] we knew what they plan to do with us&#13;
5:46&#13;
[way past in] the evening&#13;
5:48&#13;
when we [were] approaching [Bahay na Pula, we passed by a big truck]&#13;
5:52&#13;
[we] were asked [to] board [it]&#13;
5:55&#13;
[some men in the jeep arrived, said]&#13;
5:58&#13;
[no, no, and asked us to]&#13;
6:00&#13;
[get off from the truck]&#13;
6:03&#13;
[we were called inside the Bahay na Pula]&#13;
6:06&#13;
[the soldiers]&#13;
6:07&#13;
[then took the women they liked]&#13;
6:11&#13;
[there were three or four of them who took us to a room]&#13;
6:15&#13;
i think [it was the maid’s] sleeping quarters&#13;
6:19&#13;
[the soldiers took turns]&#13;
6:22&#13;
[they did what they wanted to do] with me &#13;
6:26&#13;
[after they raped me]&#13;
6:29&#13;
[they sent me away]&#13;
6:31&#13;
[they took us to a room]&#13;
6:33&#13;
[three of us]&#13;
6:35&#13;
myself, [Indang, Benyang, Lucing] &#13;
6:40&#13;
at midnight&#13;
6:46&#13;
[they knocked]&#13;
6:49&#13;
i did [not] want to open [the] door [I was shaking]&#13;
6:53&#13;
[I opened] the door &#13;
6:57&#13;
[before I knew it the Japanese had his pants down]&#13;
7:05&#13;
[I was raped only once]&#13;
7:10&#13;
[because I bled profusely]&#13;
7:14&#13;
[that might have scared off the soldiers]&#13;
7:19&#13;
[I was really bleeding, I thought I was going to die]&#13;
7:21&#13;
the room facing [Mapanique]&#13;
7:23&#13;
[that was where they took us]&#13;
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