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[Extract]

Comfort Station

 

A witness has said that you raped women

And brought them to the barracks to be used by the Japs.

 

 

I organised a brothel for the soldiers

And went there myself.

 

 

Were the women willing to go ?

Some were willing, some not.

 

 

How many were there ? Six.

How many were forced? Five.

 

 

Why were they chosen?

They were daughters of men who attacked us.

 

 

Then they were punished for the deeds of their fathers?

Yes.

 

 

How long were they kept? Eight months.

How many used them? Twenty five.

 

 

Did they bathe between the rapes?

They were lined up in threes and the twenty five soldiers

 

Mentioned above charged them with bayonets,

Killing three at a time.


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