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Testimonio Rosa Henson

Maria Rosa L. Henson testified about her experience as a "comfort woman" during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. When she was 14 years old, she was raped by Japanese soldiers for nine months. The author felt great sympathy for Rosa and how she was mistreated due to the violence and abuse women faced under Japanese rule. Many Filipino women were subjected to physical and sexual assault, verbal abuse, and rape by Japanese forces who saw women as objects. The experience would understandably cause traumatic and mental distress for the victims. Filipinos did not deserve such inhumane treatment, as they are also human beings deserving of rights and dignity regardless of their status.

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Testimonio Rosa Henson

Maria Rosa L. Henson testified about her experience as a "comfort woman" during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. When she was 14 years old, she was raped by Japanese soldiers for nine months. The author felt great sympathy for Rosa and how she was mistreated due to the violence and abuse women faced under Japanese rule. Many Filipino women were subjected to physical and sexual assault, verbal abuse, and rape by Japanese forces who saw women as objects. The experience would understandably cause traumatic and mental distress for the victims. Filipinos did not deserve such inhumane treatment, as they are also human beings deserving of rights and dignity regardless of their status.

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Name: Christine Ronamae D.

Solijon 21 ST Century
TVL11- NATIONALISM

A TESTIMONIO BY MARIA ROSA L. HENSON: REFLECTIVE ESSAY

As a student at Lourdes College the Testimony of Maria Rosa L. Henson also called as a “Comfort
Woman”. The testimony is all about her experience during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
during World War II. She was only 14 years old and was raped by the Japanese military for nine
months. Rosa described on how brutal the Japanese soldiers and how Japanese are being inhumane to
Rosa. While reading the testimony of Rosa I felt an ache to my heart because of her testimony and it
was not easy from her life of what she was going through by that time. I felt great sympathy and
empathy to her because women are mistreated back then and they cannot fight back.

The violence and abuse during Japanese regime dominated in the Philippines, during the Japanese
occupation Filipino women were greatly abused and violated. They mistreated the Filipino women, do
the physical harassment, sexual assault, verbal abuse, rape and other oppressions. It was brutal and
inhumane of what they do to the women. They treated women like a toy or they see women as a
momentary. Japanese didn’t respect women’s dignity because they’re forced to do prostitutions,
slavery and oppression. They have no mercy and do whatever they want while do evil things to women.

If I were Maria Rosa Henson I would think about my faith despite the abuse and violence done to me by
honestly speaking, I don’t know if I still remain to have a faith because If I were her I’m thinking that why
I live in this world? why I’m being abused? why God giving me a life like this? is faith existing? or
everything that comes from my mind negatively. Actually when you experience this kind of treatment it
caused you traumatic, psychosocial and mentally deranged.

Filipino doesn’t deserved the treatment of the Japanese because Filipinos are also humans not animals.
It doesn’t mean Filipinos are being looked down to the foreigners because of their life status that they
will be mistreated. Filipinos must also fight for their rights they must fight so that the foreigners must
know that Filipinos are strong and independent. Filipino women treated abusively in the past by the
Japanese because I think they see women as weak and fragile. As you can see girls must be ladylike, and
do the house jobs because there is no gender equality before. Women are strong enough to fight, no
matter how hard the situation when she is sacrificing and facing the struggles women can survived.

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