The Congo had endured mass terror-rapes earlier in the 20th century. Belgian soldiers raped and gang-raped many Congolese women. There were also instances of young Congolese men being forced, by Belgian soldiers, to have sex with (rape) their own mothers, at gunpoint of course. The world has forgotten these wicked unheard of crimes. Neither Hitler nor Stalin ever commanded such a barbaric act.
During the Second World War the Japanese Military used 200,000 (some estimates are higher) Jcomfort women'; sex slaves for the Japanese soldiers. The women were all Asians; from Indonesia, Malaysia, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. The comfort women were scattered throughout the Japanese occupied territories and also in Japan proper.
The first comfort women were Japanese prostitutes who began their work in the early 1930s. However, supply and demand was lopsided. This resulted in the luring of additional women from the territories with promises of work and other opportunities; the women were lied to. Later in time, the Japanese Military stopped luring, opting for outright kidnapping and transporting.
The comfort women were housed and treated worse than beasts; beasts aren't raped over-and-over again.
But the worst rape crimes of the Japanese Military took place in Nanking, China; commonly referred to as the JRape of Nanking'. There was no restraint in the bombing and raping of Nanking; as narrated by numerous witnesses Jit was extremely savage without any limitations'. The age parameters of victims was broad, children or elderly grandmothers were also rape victims. There are no known statistics pertaining to rapes of men.
There were no Nuremburg-style trials for the perpetrators of these countless heinous crimes. Punishment for the losing side was selective at best. Many of the rapists and those who orchestrated these acts lived the remainder of their lives without fear of being arrested. Many comfort women were used for months on end or longer, having to service many men in the process. So whatever the estimate is regarding the number of comfort women, it's safe to multiply that number many-fold to get an idea of how many rapes and gang-rapes were committed, not to mention other sex-related crimes. Sadly much of the world has never heard of this mass terror-rape. And to add insult to injury, many of the comfort women who did survive and were able to return home were rejected outright by their families.
"Eor more than 75 years, the comfort women of Korea have lived in the shadows of history," said Arthur Elug, Executive Director of the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Bayside, New York. (By Lisa Colangelo, October 30, 2014; Daily News: The Painful Story of Asian Comfort Women Will Become a Permanent Exhibit at the Kupferberg Holocaust Museum)
"We have to remember, we have to educate the next generation," said Sung K. Min, President of the Korean American Association of Greater New York. (ibid)
During the brutal civil war in Sudan, in particular Darfur and the surrounding regions, terrible events including horrible slaughters, large-scale torture, rapes and gang-rapes, expulsions, starvation and terror were rampant.
The Janjaweed, a so-called Arab militia, used mass rape and gang-rape as one of their methods to punish, terrify and control their enemies. Virtually all of the raped women were non– combatants, innocent of any wrongdoing.
A common method used by the Janjaweed was to enter a village, well-armed and sometimes on horseback, separate the men from the women and then begin their work.
Many men were slaughtered. The prettiest women were further separated from the other women. Being pregnant was no safety net. The rapes occurred in secluded places, in public and sometimes in refugee camps. Victims have reported that the rapists enjoyed themselves during the act, laughing and singing happy-as-can-be. It was common for the rapists to taunt the victims (by saying Jslave') during the act.
Many rape victims in Sudan, both Arab and African are hesitant to convey their stories. Worse yet, although South Sudan has gained its independence, the present civil war therein is wreaking havoc on the country, including but not limited to rape as a horrible weapon.
Every single day, hundreds of women living at the United Nations base located in Bentiu unwillingly expose themselves to being raped or gang-raped whenever they roam beyond the perimeter of the camp to forage for firewood and basic vegetables, doing so in order to feed themselves and their children. Men who cross the perimeter of Bentiu camp may be shot by marauding soldiers.
According to a detailed United Nations report released in May of 2014, it places blame on the South Sudan government and the rebels of horrible sex crimes against virtually all civilian women.
"The scale and ferocity of the sexual violence against South Sudanese women that we are witnessing in the current conflict has not been seen since some of the darkest atrocities of the [previous] civil war, pre-2005 ... Rape and sexual assault are being used on a mass scale as a weapon of war," said Lydia Stone, Senior Advisor to South Sudan's Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Welfare. (By Jason Patinkin, July 27, 2014; The Christian Science Monitor: Rape Stands out Starkly in S. Soudan War Known for Brutality)
"When young women go out, they rape you ... We as young women fear going out of the camp ... They say 'we'll shoot you if we don't rape you' ... When they find you are three women like this, they take you one by one, and if you make any sound they beat you," said Janet, a mother of six children, in her late 20s. (ibid)
"If I say I have a small baby and I'm still breastfeeding, they still rape you," said a woman sitting beside Janet. (ibid) Even with all the rape and brutality inflicted upon many innocent South Sudanese, rape victims fear being blamed for the act, or will not be able to get married in the future.
Shortly after Columbus and Cortes arrived in the so-called New World, slaughter, enslavement, torture, plundering and destruction, expulsions, mass rapes and a sex trade ensued. The initial treatment of the Taino and soon thereafter, the Arawak were excellent indicators of how the native peoples in the whole of the Americas were to be treated.
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