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慰安婦被日軍虐待的恐怖故事
二戰期間，日本綁架並強暴了數千名婦女，這就是她們的故事。
薩姆·H·阿諾德
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英雄有多種形式；有些人永遠不會承認自己是一個人。那些在可怕事件中倖存下來的人是英雄，但永遠不會將自己歸類為英雄。這群女性就屬於這一類。
她們被稱為“慰安婦”，這是一個可笑的詞。第二次世界大戰期間，他們為日本人工作，為士兵提供「安慰」。日本人想讓你相信他們是妓女。事實是，她們是性奴隸，被從自己的家園和家人中偷走。
李玉善
事情發生時，李正在韓國釜山為父母辦事。一群身穿制服的男子從車上跳下來，襲擊了她，並將她拖進車內。
她被帶到所謂的慰安所；事實上，這是一家為駐華日本士兵提供服務的妓院。
她十四歲。
納西莎·克拉維裡亞
1943 年，納西莎住在呂宋島西北部阿布拉的家中，當時日本男子來到了她家門口。部隊表示，他們正在挨家挨戶搜查菲律賓遊擊隊。
沒多久，他們就指控她的父親、村長與他們合作。他們把他綁在房子的一根柱子上，儘管他否認參與並乞求寬恕。士兵的反應是拿起刺刀攻擊她的父親。
就在那時納西莎聽到她母親在樓上尖叫。進入房間後，她看到另一名士兵正在強姦她。她的弟弟妹妹試著用棍棒打士兵；他們都被殺了。
納西莎和她的兩個姐姐被拖到了駐軍。她再也沒有見過她的大姐姐。她十二歲，是一名慰安婦。
慰安婦
這是數千個故事中的兩個。數十萬婦女遭受這種虐待。據估計，在這龐大的數字中，有 90% 的人未能在戰爭中倖存下來，無法講述自己的故事。
這是現代史上最大的政府支持的人口販運和性奴役案件。大多數被迫淪為奴隸的婦女來自韓國和中國。
儘管如此，日本人確實帶走了來自日本、台灣、菲律賓、印尼、馬來西亞、越南、泰國、東帝汶和荷屬東印度群島的婦女，以及日本佔領區的歐洲婦女。
慰安婦這個名字背後隱藏著數以千計的婦女在日本皇軍手中遭受的不為人知的虐待。該制度是在南京大屠殺後建立的。裕仁天皇認為這會阻止他的士兵進行其他大規模強暴。
所謂的慰安所於 1932 年在上海建立。
許多士兵拒絕使用保險套，也沒有醫護人員。許多感染性病的人被迫繼續工作。
為了解決這個問題，他們被注射了薩爾瓦散（Salvarsan）或阿苯那敏（Arsphenamine）來預防梅毒。兩者都具有劇毒並導致不孕。如果一名婦女拒絕，她就會遭到毆打和酷刑。
戰爭結束後，倖存的女性在身體和心理上都留下了傷痕。許多人患有創傷後壓力症候群、性傳染病以及生殖系統受損。
日本的藉口
這些婦女的正義是經過艱苦努力才獲得的。許多人仍在試圖讓人們承認他們所經歷的事情。許多人在沒有得到正義的情況下就死去了。
日本人試圖為這些婦女的強暴行為合理化，聲稱這遏止了村裡婦女的強暴行為。他們似乎忘記了這些村莊有多少兒童被綁架。
然而，官方軍事記錄和個人回憶錄顯示，慰安所是由日本軍方設立和控制的。
他們透過欺騙、虛假承諾和綁架等手段來為這些房屋配備工作人員。戰爭接近尾聲時，軍方利用警察部隊為他們招募婦女和兒童。
哥倫比亞大學歷史學教授卡羅爾·格魯克（Carol Gluck）專注於現代日本研究，她說：“如果沒有慰安婦的證詞，我們就不會知道發生了什麼。”
如果沒有這些英雄，這段可怕的歷史就不會被世人所知。有些人隱藏了自己的經歷，不願談論並重溫老年時的創傷，但足夠多的人說出了自己的經歷，讓世界聆聽。
正義
經過多次法律爭論，包括日本聲稱不會承認韓國的管轄權並賠償這些婦女，2015 年，正義得到了伸張。
在歐巴馬政府的鼓勵下，安倍首相表達了“最誠摯的歉意和悔恨”，日本隨後向韓國基金捐贈了830萬美元，以補償這些婦女
由於戰後日本官方銷毀了許多紀錄，慰安婦的確切人數無法記錄。據估計，125 個慰安所中有 20,000 至 410,000 人被奴役。
我盡量避免報道這種野蠻的案件，但這些女性的故事值得被說出來。研究這篇文章是我研究過的最糟糕的文章之一，但還是有光明的。當被問到時，納西莎將她的倖存歸功於她的丈夫阿納塞托·克拉維拉。
「我非常害怕男人，」納西莎說。然後她解釋說，她丈夫的善良和耐心幫助她克服了恐懼。他幫助她治癒心靈，並說服她講述自己的故事。
在經歷了人生之初的這樣的折磨後，她找到了愛，而這份愛治癒了她。
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The Horrific Story of the Comfort Women Abused by Japanese Soldiers
During World War II, Japan kidnapped and raped thousands of women, this is their story.
Sam H Arnold
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Heroes come in many forms; some would never recognise themselves as one. Those that survive horrific incidents are heroes but would never categorise themselves as one. This group of women are in that category.
They were known as comfort women, a ludicrous term. During World War II, they worked for the Japanese, providing soldiers with 'comfort.' The Japanese would like you to believe that they were prostitutes. The truth is that they were sex slaves, stolen from their homes and families.
Lee Ok-Seon
When it happened, Lee was running an errand for her parents in Busan, a town in South Korea. A group of uniformed men jumped from a car, attacked her and dragged her into the vehicle.
She was taken to what was known as a comfort station; in reality, it was a brothel that serviced Japanese soldiers in China.
She was fourteen.
Narcisa Claveria
Narcisa was home in Abra, in northwest Luzon, in 1943 when Japanese men arrived on her doorstep. The troops stated they were conducting a house-to-house search for Philippine guerrillas.
It wasn't long until they accused her father, the village leader, of working with them. They tied him to a pillar of the house even though he denied involvement and begged for mercy. The soldier's response was to take his bayonet and attack her father.
That was when Narcisa heard her mother screaming from upstairs; entering the room, she saw another soldier raping her. Her younger siblings tried to hit the soldiers with sticks; they were both killed.
Narcisa and her two older sisters were dragged off to the garrison. She never saw her eldest sister again. She was twelve years old and a comfort woman.
Comfort Women
These are two stories among thousands. Hundreds of thousands of women were subjected to this abuse. It is estimated that of this vast number, 90% did not survive the war to tell their story.
It is the largest case of government-sponsored human trafficking and sex slavery in modern history. The majority of the women who were forced into slavery came from Korea and China.
Although, the Japanese did take women from Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Việt Nam, Thailand, East Timor, and the Dutch East Indies, as well as European women in Japanese-occupied territories.
The name comfort women hide the untold abuse of thousands of women at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Army. The system was established after the massacre at Nanking. Emperor Hirohito thought this would discourage his soldiers from other mass rapes.
Comfort stations, as they were called, were established in Shanghai in 1932. From here, they were established in every Japanese-occupied country.
Many of the soldiers refused to use condoms, and there was no medical staff available. Many infected with sexually transmitted diseases were forced to continue working.
To combat this, they were injected with Salvarsan or Arsphenamine to prevent syphilis. Both are highly toxic and cause infertility. If a woman refused, she was beaten and tortured.
When the war ended, the women who survived were left with physical and psychological scars. Many had post-traumatic stress disorder, sexually transmitted diseases and damage to their reproduction system.
Japanese Excuses
Justice for these women has been hard fought; many are still trying to get acknowledgement of what they went through. Many have died without ever getting that justice.
The Japanese have tried to rationalise the rape of these women by stating it curbed the rape of those in the villages. They seem to forget how many children were abducted from just those villages.
However, official military records and personal memoirs show that the Japanese military set up and controlled the comfort houses.
They used a mixture of deceit, false promises, and kidnap to staff these houses. Towards the war's end, the military used the police force to procure women and children for them.
Carol Gluck, a history professor at Columbia University focusing on modern-day Japan, says, "Without the testimonies of the comfort women, we would not know what happened."
This horrific history would have been hidden from the world without these heroes. Some have hidden their experiences, reluctant to talk and relive the trauma in old age, but enough have spoken up for the world to listen.
Justice
After much legal wrangling, including Japan claiming they would not recognise Korea's jurisdiction and compensate these women, in 2015, a small amount of justice was served.
With the encouragement of the Obama Administration, Prime Minister Abe expressed "his most sincere apologies and remorse" Japan then contributed $8.3 million to a Korean fund to compensate the women
Due to the destruction of many records by Japanese officials after the war, the exact number of comfort women can not be recorded. The estimation is between 20,000 and 410,000 enslaved in 125 comfort stations.
I try to avoid reporting such savage cases, but these women deserve their stories to be told. Researching this article was one of the worse I have studied, but there was light. When asked, Narcisa attributes her survival to her husband, Anaceto Claveria.
"I was so scared of men," Narcisa says; she then explains that her husband's kindness and patience helped her overcome the terror. He helped her mentally heal and persuaded her to tell her story.
After enduring such torture at the beginning of her life, she found love, and this love healed her.
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