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To Forget is to Kill Them Twice: Justice for SEA ‘Comfort Women’ from World War II 🌏✊
- Manushya Foundation
- 20 hours ago
- 1 min read
For over 80 years, a heavy veil of silence has covered one of the most brutal chapters of World War II: the systematic sexual enslavement of over 200,000 women and girls in Southeast Asia by the Japanese Imperial Army.
They were euphemistically called “Comfort Women”, but there was NOTHING comforting about military sexual slavery. Many were teenagers who were abducted and brought to “comfort stations” where they were raped around the clock by soldiers in occupied territories.
The same patriarchy and impunity that allowed military sexual slavery in the 1940s still fuel human trafficking and gender-based violence today.
⚖️ While survivors from East Asia have gained more international recognition, the voices of survivors in Southeast Asia remain largely sidelined. Many passed away in social isolation, carrying their trauma to their graves due to stigma and the failure of the Japanese state to recognise the truth.
📢𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘄𝘀! Share this post and demand that the Japanese government provide a formal apology and legal reparations for ALL survivors!
As decolonial and intersectional feminists, we at Manushya Foundation refuse to remember Comfort Women only as victims. We honour them as survivors, truth-tellers, and pillars of courage who dared to speak against empire. ✊
#WeAreManushyan ♾️Equal Human Beings
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