Ines de Jesus was a young girl during World War II when she was forced to become a sex slave, or "comfort woman," for Japanese troops in the then Portuguese colony of East Timor.
By day, de Jesus carried out various kinds of menial labor, and each night was raped by between four to eight Japanese soldiers at a so-called comfort station in Oat village in the western province of Bobonaro.
While horrific, de Jesus' experience with sexual abuse under military occupation is by no means unusual among East Timorese women, as a special exhibition at the Women's Active Museum on War and Peace in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward makes clear.
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