The Women of Mapanique (Part 1) [video]

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The Women of Mapanique (Part 1) [video]

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[From YouTube]: This is the story of the Women of Mapanique located in Candaba Pampanga Philippines who were subjected to mass rape, gang rape and other human rights violations by the Japanese Army during World War ll in 1943.

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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.

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.

To this day, the women of Mapanique - many of those still alive are now in their 70s - talk about their ordeal with chilling clarity.

[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]

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Transcript from YouTube [edited]:

0:42
the evidence presented before the women's international war crimes
0:46
tribunal two thousand
0:49
demonstrates that the women
0:50
and girls [in Mapanique]
0:52
we're subjected to multiple extreme forms of violence as part of the
0:57
punitive [or] subjugation [attack]
1:00
on the village in order to destroy anti-Japanese [activity]
1:05
the soldiers rounded up the women and girls and cost them to be detained at
1:10
the [Bahay na Pula]
1:12
where they were subjected to mass rape, [gang rape]
1:15
or other forms of sexual violence
1:18
as [found] by the [IMTFE]
1:21
[and confirmed] by the testimony [on this case]
1:24
the Japanese soldiers routinely engaged [in rape]
1:28
[accompanied] by [other sadistic brutality]
1:32
[in the Asia-Pacific War.] The evidence [further shows]
1:36
that the [rape] and other [crimes at Mapanique] were committed by forces
1:40
[under Yamashita’s] authority and control and as part of a [campaign]
1:45
of [subjugational] punishment
1:49
[ordered and approved by General Yamashita in October nineteen forty-four]
1:53
as part of [his] guiding principles for Philippine [operations]
2:02
[In] nineteen forty-four, twenty-third [of November]
2:05
[very early in the morning]
2:07
we heard loud
2:08
[bomb explosions]
2:10
and sounds of machine [guns]
2:14
[my parents took us under the house]
2:18
[we had a dark hole there]
2:23
[my mother wanted us to go down]
2:27
[my brother said don’t, because]
2:29
there might be stray bullets, [we might be hit, I said]
2:34
[why are the dogs barking?]
2:39
[be quiet, my mother said]
2:41
[the Japanese might be with them]
2:49
[when there was already light, we went back to our house]
2:53
[Japanese soldiers]
2:54
[were there] searching
2:58
[and taking everything they liked of our belongings]
3:01
[we] went down
3:03
[in a short while]
3:04
[the Japanese came]
3:07
[when they came in front] of our house [they shouted, you men calm down]
3:15
[because my father was afraid]
3:17
[that the Japanese would shoot us]
3:19
[he went out]
3:21
[they asked us to calm down]
3:26
[then two of them]
3:28
[took my brother]
3:30
[he was separated from us]
3:41
[they asked us to go to the school house]
3:43
[my brother]
3:44
[tried to run away]
3:45
[he was hit by cannon fire]
3:47
[and died] instantly
3:49
[we were not able to [bury him]
3:51
[his body was eaten by dogs]
3:54
rounded up [the men]
3:56
[including my brother]
4:01
[in the school house they] were shot
4:05
[I told my mother] do not make any sound [lest] the Japanese [turn] to you
4:10
[so she kept quiet even if she saw my brother killed]
4:16
[after all the men] were killed
4:19
[the bodies were taken inside] the schoolhouse, [the schoolhouse] was set on
4:23
fire
4:26
they [burned the whole village]
4:33
[when I saw what happened]
4:37
[I was very frightened]
4:39
[the Japanese took]
4:40
[the bodies of the men they killed]
4:43
to the school house [and burned] them
4:47
[all the time, they had]
4:49
[mortars aimed at us]
4:54
[like the father of]
4:55
[Tarcila Sampang]
4:57
[Tatang Syano Sampang]
5:00
[what they did to him was so horrendous]
5:03
[that one would cry] from watching
5:05
[they lopped off his penis]
5:09
[and placed it on his mouth]
5:14
[like a cigarette, he was screaming, he was crying, we could not]
5:18
bear to watch [him]
5:26
[like the man Gonzales]
5:35
[they sliced his feces and asked the other to eat it]
5:36
after they had lunch
5:39
[they took us to the Bahay na Pula and held us there]
5:43
[later] we knew what they plan to do with us
5:46
[way past in] the evening
5:48
when we [were] approaching [Bahay na Pula, we passed by a big truck]
5:52
[we] were asked [to] board [it]
5:55
[some men in the jeep arrived, said]
5:58
[no, no, and asked us to]
6:00
[get off from the truck]
6:03
[we were called inside the Bahay na Pula]
6:06
[the soldiers]
6:07
[then took the women they liked]
6:11
[there were three or four of them who took us to a room]
6:15
i think [it was the maid’s] sleeping quarters
6:19
[the soldiers took turns]
6:22
[they did what they wanted to do] with me
6:26
[after they raped me]
6:29
[they sent me away]
6:31
[they took us to a room]
6:33
[three of us]
6:35
myself, [Indang, Benyang, Lucing]
6:40
at midnight
6:46
[they knocked]
6:49
i did [not] want to open [the] door [I was shaking]
6:53
[I opened] the door
6:57
[before I knew it the Japanese had his pants down]
7:05
[I was raped only once]
7:10
[because I bled profusely]
7:14
[that might have scared off the soldiers]
7:19
[I was really bleeding, I thought I was going to die]
7:21
the room facing [Mapanique]
7:23
[that was where they took us]

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Uploaded to YouTube by Ariel Salumbides on Dec 4, 2008

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“The Women of Mapanique (Part 1) [video],” FHL-Roderick Hall, accessed March 28, 2024, https://fhl.omeka.net/items/show/1004.