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DESCRIPTION:Malaya Lolas: A Film About Surviving Filipina Comfort Women of WWII\n\nOn 
 the morning of November 23, 1944, the Japanese Imperial Army bombed the 
 barrio of Mapanique, Pampanga. By noon, most of the men and women were 
 rounded up and brought to the local school house. There, the men were 
 tortured and massacred in front of their wives, mothers, sisters and 
 children. With their barrio and homes burned, the women were forced into a 
 life of sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army; where they were raped 
 repeatedly and subjected to a panoply of violence. \n\nOf the thousands of 
 women forced into sexual slavery in the Philippines, only 173 of the 
 surviving Filipina comfort women have come forward to date. Earlier this 
 month, HR 121, a demand for Japan to apologize to the women victimized by 
 military sexual slavery during World War II, was passed by Congress. 
 \n\nMalaya Lolas (directed by Etang Macam) is the raw and truthful story 
 portraying the struggle of these surviving women (now in their 70s and 80s) 
 which questions whether an apology is enough to absolve Japan's military 
 for imposing a legacy of violence onto the bodies of our 
 grandmothers.\n\nThis is a FREE event, but donations are kindly accepted. 
 Light refreshments will be served.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/15/18440856.php
SUMMARY:Film Screening: Malaya Lolas (Surviving Filipina Comfort Women of WWII)
LOCATION:Filipino Community Center\n35 San Juan Avenue (cross streets: Mission and 
 Alemany)\nSan Francisco, CA 94112
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/15/18440856.php
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