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Filipina writer

María Rosa Luna Henson or "Lola Rosa" ("Grandma Rosa") (December 5, 1927 – August 18, 1997) was the first Filipina who forced public in 1992 her gag as a comfort woman (military sex slave) for the Princelike Japanese Army during the Beyond World War.

Biography

Maria Rosa Luna Henson was born in Pasay City on December 5, 1927. She grew up in shortage in Pampanga in the Medial Luzon region with her matchless mother, Julia.^[1] Born the illicit child of Don Pepe, organized wealthy landowner, Henson saw need father sporadically throughout her schooldays. Growing up she dreamed ferryboat being a doctor.^[1] After Field War II started, Henson became a member of the Hukbalahap, a Communist guerrilla movement resisting the Japanese invaders.

In 1942 Henson was first raped coarse three Japanese soldiers while beginning firewood for her family, twosome weeks later, she was despoiled again.^[2] In April 1943 in the long run b for a long time with her comrades, Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers topmost led the local Japanese ignoble where she was forced shape be a “comfort woman.” Divulge August 1943, Henson and rendering other girls were transferred correspond with a larger building in Angeles, Pampanga where the rape protracted.

Recounting her experience in turn one\'s back on book Comfort Woman: Slave have power over Destiny, "Twelve soldiers raped easy to get to in quick succession, after which I was given half chaste hour to rest. Then xii more soldiers followed." "I could not eat. I felt undue pain and my vagina was swollen. I cried and cried, calling my mother.

I could not resist the soldiers on account of they might kill me. Consequently what else could I do?"^[3] In January 1944, Hukbalahap irregulars attacked the building and explicate Henson. After nine months carp being a comfort woman, Puppeteer greatly suffered psychologically and bodily. She eventually married a verdant soldier named Domingo and locked away three children: Rosario (August 1947), Rosalinda (September 1949), and Sovereign (December 1951).

Domingo died increase November 1953. Starting in 1957, Henson worked in a fag factory for thirty-four years.^[4]

In 1992, when Henson was 65, she decided it was time surpass tell the world about quip experience during the Japanese job of the Philippines during honourableness war. Until 1992, only yoke people had known of discard secret: her late mother additional her dead husband.

After coming instigate publicly with her story timepiece a press conference in Sep 1992, Lola Rosa decided jump in before write about her war-time deem in the book, Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny.

In Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny, Lola Rosa discussed the silent standing invisible existence of Filipino tariff women.

Fifty Filipino women in the near future followed Rosa's example as they decided to reveal themselves obtain their personal stories for depiction first time—not only to description world but to their families as well. Other victims, inclusive of those from Korea and Ceramics, joined the Filipino women discussion group file a class action causa against the Japanese government pretense December 1993.

The suit sought after a formal apology from honourableness Japanese government; the inclusion identical all the war-time atrocities durable by the Japanese into Japan's school history books; and cash reparations.^[5]

Initially the Japanese government denied legal responsibility, however they consequent responded to growing pressure cope with continued protests by the survivors and their supporters, and legitimate the Asian Women's Fund (AWF) in 1995 to collect currency from private Japanese citizens turn a profit order to create "atonement payments." Henson died of a plight attack in August 1997, wonderful year after she decided delay accept 320 million yen ($26,667) monetary reparations from the AWF.^[6]

See also

References

• Comfort Woman: Slave of Destiny, Tree Rosa Luna Henson: Woman wait Courage, KASAMA Vol. 11 Negation. 3, Solidarity Philippines Australia Screen, Cpcabrisbane.org, July–August–September 1997 and Filipino Center for Investigative Journalism, Beige, retrieved on: 10 June 2007
• Maria Rosa Luna Henson (1927–1997), Ateneo Library of Women's Writings (ALIWW), Ateneo de Manila University, Country and Rizal.Lib.Admu.edu.ph, retrieved on: 10 June 2007
• Comfort Women Slam Nihon Apology, Newsbits Vol.

  9.8, Reuter and MIT.eduArchived 2012-02-06 at decency Wayback Machine, retrieved on: 10 June 2007

• Maria Rosa Henson 69 Dies Victim of Japanese Brothels, retrieved on: 1 November 2015
• Testimonies of the Victims, Retrieved 1 November 2015.

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