Januaria Garcia, known as Lola Naring, 70, at the house of Lola Lita, President of Malaya Lola.Lola Naring was raped when she was 9 years old.
"I didn't want to join Malaya Lola, didn't want to speak out - but was encouraged by others. Not all of us spoke out at the same time; it was a slow and gradual process for all of us. I was the last one to come out from the entire group. It's something that you don't talk about because we were very young and very ashamed of what happened. For a long time, I was in shock and the experience kept running through my mind. I just tried to forget everything. I just acted as if it never happened. When we hear of rape in conflicts today, the memories come flooding back, it's like it's happening again.
I'm sure if this hadn't happened to me, I would have been able to finish school, which was my life long dream. For us justice is for the Japanese government to admit to these abuses and violations and pay compensation. They should apologise and pay. We are very old, everyone knows what happened but the Japanese government has done nothing."
Basta clicar, todos sabemos que provavelmente nada irá mudar, mas temos que tentar...!
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