Comfort Women of Bahay na Pula
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Comfort Women of Bahay na Pula, Mapanique, Pampangga, Philippines
If these walls have eyes and mouths, they would weep and wail of the horrifying and monstrous events that have occurred within these walls 50 years ago. These walls walls watched as the women wept, cowering among themselves as they fought their captors and took the blows that rendered them unconscious. These walls saw how their dignity was mutilated, how their young, frail bodies endured pain as they suffered under the Japanese soldiers who were also housed within these walls.
Testimonies:
PILAR GALANG
The experience I had during the Japanese war is something I will never forget. In the morning of November 23, 1944 we were awakened by many explosions. My father shouted for us to get down to the basement of our house. As we crouched in the basement, the explosions ceased but the Japanese barged into our home and found us hiding. They kicked my brother and tied up my father by the wrists. We were crying out to God to save us from this danger. We were then brought to the school…
ESTER BALINGIT
The Japanese soldiers took everything that they wanted. The soldiers forced me to go with them. My mother was screaming in protest, so the Japanesegot mad and kicked her. Then the soldiers brought me to the school…
Genocide:
BELEN CULALA
We were all gathered in front of the schoolyard, under the heat of the sun. All women and girls, young and old. The children added to our burden. They were crying from hunger and thirst. We were begging for food and water. Sometimes the mothers gave carabao urine for their children to drink.
JANURARIA GALANG
When we came down from our houses, we saw the men with their hands tied up. Some were bleeding to death. We were brought here to this school. There used to be a very small school here. The machine gun was pointed towards the school. We witnessed the soldiers cutting the bodies of the men and forcing them to eat their own flesh. The captured men were tied to the posts of the school. After the soldiers got tired of torturing the men, they looted the houses. After they piled up the valuables into one spot, they burned the houses to ashes. The surroundings were blackened. After they were done burning down the houses, they turned the machine guns on us. We prayed, we thought it was our end. God must have heard us because they took away the machine gun. But then they pointed the machine gun to the men. All the men who were tied up were gunned down. After they have all died, their bodies were thrown into the school and burned. We women were crying for our male relatives and friends. We women were quietly praying. All of us villagers together, hungry, thirsty, it happened during this time, this same month.
BELEN CULALA
This is the tomb of all who were burned in the school. It’s a mass grave, all the ashes were collected and buried. Many light candles here because many individuals are buried together.
Forced Labor
JOVITRA DAVID
The women were forced to carry the valuables they looted. If we could not carry the load were were kicked and threatened by the Japanese. They kicked, pushed and shoved us to made us walk faster. We told them “We can no longer carry these, they are heavy!” They said “Go on! Carry it! If you don’t, we will kill you!” So even we were crawling, we went on. When we reached the red house, we then were separated.
VICTORIA DELA CRUZ
They forced us to bring the loot. I was carrying a sewing machine. My sister even lost a patch of her hair from the weight of the load upon her head.
Sexual violence
EMILIA DELA CRUZ
When it was nightfall, the Japanese did not allow us to leave. They closed the door upon us. In short, we were imprisoned, each room had women. I realized they had an evil plan for us. I was not menstruating then. I was 14. Because of my physical hardship and hunger, my body felt very weak and tired. I was awaken from my sleep when some men approached me. Naturally, at first I fought them, but I could not do anything. They did what they wanted to me. As I recall, there were 4 soldiers who raped me.
ISABELITA VINUYA
コメント (21)
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This is an interesting and useful video for my research in Japanese attrocities across Southeast Asia, and I appreciate the translated captions in the video
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Grabe ang pinagdaanan nila, nakaka durog ng puso.
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Sana masunog sa impyerno Ang gumawa sa kanila Ng ganyan
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Kaya sabi ng mga matatanda ngayon,maswerte mga pinanganak ng 90s kc hindi nmin naranasan ang ganyang karanasan 😭😭😭
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Januaria Galang,, proud apo here🥺
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Nagbayad na ba angmga Hapon sa mga comfort women natin.Saying sorry is not enough but even that they did not give. It is so sad that our government has no balls to fight for our people. The foreign aids they gave were not commensurate to the damage they did to our country.The lives that they destroyed, the people they killed,the destruction of our infrastructure were far too great for them to deny. Their arrogance is abominable.
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There should be justice for comfort women with or without participation of the government.
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I've been doing research of my homeland since I didn't grew up in it and so never had a proper education... I hear and read our country being mentioned in those school history book but it's just once and nothing more... Funny thing tho, I spent my childhood living in Bulacan and to know this house exist... I greatly hope it will be maintained. I once heard living beings are more scarier than ghost and it couldn't be more true. It would be perfect as a shrine to pay respect to the dead...I'm sure they will appreciate it. Philippines is often depicted as a 'happy place' despite being a country with natural causes (flood) in media by foreigners (and also by us) but without actually acknowledging our past. Our people has been through a lot but many things are so buried until someone decide to dig them up. Example of this is the 'human zoo' article published in WWF. Instead of having empty representation, someday, I hope this things, what those voiceless people has been through, will be acknowledged instead.
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Sila yung mnga living proof noong ksysyn Grabiii yung trauma nila….
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Naabutan ng mga lolo't lola ko ang panahon na to sobrang hirap raw talaga.. Lagi silang nagtatago sa buhangin at may parang tubo lang na nakausli sa buhangin para makahinga sila..
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Pampanga govt should restore this house theirs a lot of history for the new generation the history of our people in the Philippines
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Thanks for the vid, very helpful for history class
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Nakakalungkot ang kanilang mga naranasan nung panahon ng hapon 😢😢
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GOD BLESS US ALL. THE TRUTHS WILL SET US FREE. MABUHAY. !!!!!
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Opo malupit ung mga hapon n dumating dito noong ww2.. alala ko lola ko kuwento nya s maynila. Kawawa tayo noon.
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Kailangang suportahan sila ng Japanes goverment pra man lang mkabawi sila sa ginawa ng mga ninuno nila.
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napaka sakit na nakaraan. di ko maiwasang magalit.
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Nkaka iyak nmn po
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Sa pagkakaalam ko Giniba na yang bahay na pula
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Hindi ko ma-imagine Yung 30 to 100 times of rape in one week, josko at Ang babata p Ng kinuha nila 12 to 14yrs old, nakakaawa tlga sila, pasalamat tlga Ako from my childhood a d up to now n may anak n din Ako na walang ganyan.
