TESTIMONIES (excerpts)
"... A Japanese soldier told me to take off my skirt, I refused and he threw himself on me and stripped off my clothes… It was the first time I got raped. I cried in pain but the Japanese soldier forbade me to yell. He slapped my face.
Since then, I was raped by Japanese soldiers day after day. They wouldn’t let go of me even when I had period. I could not bear it, and wanted to run away. One afternoon, I went with several other girls to wash ourselves in the Jiaomao River. I secretly dived across the river, and ran up onto the other bank. But I was spotted by Japanese guards on the watch towers…
After being caught, I was beaten savagely by the Japanese soldiers and then pulled to the yard. They made me to crawl on hands and knees, like a cow. They walked behind me and whipped me with a leather belt. It was raining heavily; I felt blinding pain as the wounds were exposed to the water. I couldn’t crawl any further and started to lose consciousness in the muddy ground. At that time, I was lucky to even survive… Thanks to the other girls who begged the soldiers to let me go..."
"... Three months later I was transferred to another Japanese base, and was again held for a few months. There were many very young girls at that Japanese base, generally at the age of only thirteen or fourteen. I feared even to watch the scene when they were raped in turns by seven or eight Japanese soldiers. The guards at the base were very strict, nobody could run out. Japanese soldiers often got drunk and when they got drunk, they would come and have sex. One night, a few Japanese soldiers with guns entered my room. They were very drunk at that time. One of the soldiers shouted to me in Japanese and I did not understand what he was the saying. Suddenly several other soldiers rushed to me, pressed me to the bed and torn apart my clothes. Their hands were touching and poking on my body madly, then they scrambled to rape me. I suffered from their torture for a long, long time... I was trembling with cold sweat all over my body; I felt like crying but could not shed tears...
I was locked up in the Japanese military base and could not return home for 3 years. No one knows, the days we lived were inhuman. It was hard even to imagine..."