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Remedios Tecson (from left), Estela Adriatico, Narcisa Claveria, Felicidad delos Reyes and Estelita Dy were teens when they were sexually enslaved.
Many of the estimated 1,000 Filipinas who served as "comfort women" died of injuries or illness.
Survivors suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Many went on to marry but said their wartime experiences made them societal outcasts.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
The Malaya Lolas are a group of women who were sexually assaulted as children by Japanese soldiers in Pampanga province in the Philippines during World War II.
Left to right are Belen Alarcon Culala, Catalina Yarbut Manio, Lydia Alonzo Sanchez, Francia Aga Buco, Pilar Quilantang Galang, Isabelita Vinuya, Maria Lalu Quilantang, Candelaria Soliman and Emilia dela Cruz Mangilit.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: Why These World War II Sex Slaves Are Still Demanding Justice NPR December 4, 2020
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
Belen Alarcon Culala looks out on the street in her village of Mapaniqui in Pampanga, Philippines.
Culala, who died on Feb. 28, 2021, was one of approximately 100 girls and women who were raped repeatedly by the Japanese Imperial Army soldiers during the course of one night in World War II.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
Whatever Happened To ... The WW II Sex Slaves Fighting For Justice? NPR September 24, 2021 11:51 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/24/
Ailing and infirm, Januaria Galang Garcia is bathed by a family member in the village of Mapaniqui in Pampanga, Philippines, on May 19, 2019.
Garcia died on Sept. 3, 2021.
She was 9 when Japanese soldiers laid siege to her village during World War II, killing the men and raping the women and girls.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
Whatever Happened To ... The WW II Sex Slaves Fighting For Justice? NPR September 24, 2021 11:51 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/24/
Januaria Galang Garcia takes a midday nap in the village of Mapaniqui in Pampanga, Philippines, on May 19, 2019.
Garcia, who was one of the women subjected to sexual slavery during World War II, died on Sept. 3, 2021.
She was 9 years old when the Japanese attacked their village, a suspected guerrilla holdout.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
Whatever Happened To ... The WW II Sex Slaves Fighting For Justice? NPR September 24, 2021 11:51 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/24/
Narcisa Claveria takes a midday nap with husband, Anaceto Claveria, in their home in Antipolo, Metro Manila.
Claveria was 12 years old in 1943 when the Japanese came to their village in Abra, Philippines, during World War II.
Accused of harboring guerrilla fighters, her father was tortured and her mother was raped.
Claveria never saw them again.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
Whatever Happened To ... The WW II Sex Slaves Fighting For Justice? NPR September 24, 2021 11:51 AM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/09/24/
Narcisa Claveria receives a gentle kiss from her great-grandson, Joseph Tena, 8, whom she and her husband have raised since his father died when he was an infant.
Claveria was 12 when Japanese soldiers took her as a sex slave for 1 1/2 years.
They raped her mother and skinned her father alive before burning down their house.
She could hear him scream, "Children, where are you? I'm in such pain."
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
"When we arrived to the Red House, I was pushed so hard that I was knocked unconscious, so I don't recall what happened to me ... but even today, I feel the pain in my body," said Maria Lalu Quilantang, who was 9 years old when her village of Mapaniqui was attacked by the Japanese during World War II.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
"I'm afraid here. This is not a good place," said Teresita Bermudez Dayo as she visited the remains of the Belo Mansion, where she was imprisoned and forced to serve as a "comfort woman" during World War II.
Japanese soldiers had stopped her family when the family was traveling, declared that the 12-year-old was pretty and took her to their armored vehicle.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
Lydia Alonzo Sanchez was 14 when she was sexually assaulted by Japanese soldiers on Nov. 23, 1944, during a mass rape.
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
Fedencia Nacar David holds her photo for an application to work as a maid.
She was 15. A year before, a Japanese soldier sliced her ear and threatened to behead her if she didn't go to a garrison with him; she was raped over 10 days.
"It still hurts," she says. "I was innocent. Why did that happen to me?"
She kept her past from her children until "comfort women" began speaking out in the 1990s.
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
Juliana dela Cruz, 92, lies at her home in Roxas City on May 27, 2019.
She died Sept. 12 of that year.
In 1998, she testified: "At the garrison, they imprisoned me in a room.
The cook was the only one who could give me food.
The only other ones I saw were the three soldiers who came into my room every night and raped me three to five times a night in the course of one month."
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
Maria Quistadio Arroyo was 12 when she was sexually enslaved for three months by Japanese soldiers.
She eventually married and had seven children but says her husband became abusive in his later years, beating her until his death in 1997.
"For years," she testified, "I endured my husband's ridicule while no one pointed fingers at those ... responsible for the [wartime] assaults."
Photograph: Cheryl Diaz Meyer for NPR
PHOTOS: There Still Is No Comfort For The 'Comfort Women' Of The Philippines NPR December 4, 2020 12:11 PM ET
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/12/04/
'Comfort women'
system of sexual servitude set up by the Japanese imperial troops during World War II.
They used abduction, coercion and deception to force women and girls to provide sexual gratification to military personnel.
Researchers cited in court cases say that large numbers of them did not survive.
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