Published in "The Flor-Ala" (Oct' 27, 05)
(Ramesh Deshar)
“One day the head of the village came to our house accompanied by a man in a military uniform. They took me to the office. They told me to undress. I was terrified. I was trembling and shaking. I ran but I was caught and beaten. Soldiers came and lined up like soldiers lined up for canteen. One pulled his pant down, did it and then another came. I spent the whole day this way. I was unable to get up afterward. This torture went on for several years. I was placed from one place to another. The liberation came at the last. I did come back although my body was completely demolished beyond repair. I could not bear child. How could I after that several years of that horrible abuse? My body was destroyed and my soul was shattered.”
This is a pathetic and atrocious story of a Korean woman, Bok Dong Kim who was enslaved as a Korean “Comfort Woman” raped by Japanese soldiers during World War II, 1941 from the documentary named “Rape is…”
This documentary presents poignant and heartbreaking stories of rape victims in a realistic way. It is half an hour documentary video which shows the ruthlessness and consequences of rape.
The documentary is the production of “A Cambridge Documentary Films” worked out by The Academy- Award winning producer/ directors of “Defending our lives.” This video inspects rape from a historic and worldwide perspective.
The success of this documentary is that it makes you feel the anguish and pain of the rape victims.
“One day the head of the village came to our house accompanied by a man in a military uniform. They took me to the office. They told me to undress. I was terrified. I was trembling and shaking. I ran but I was caught and beaten. Soldiers came and lined up like soldiers lined up for canteen. One pulled his pant down, did it and then another came. I spent the whole day this way. I was unable to get up afterward. This torture went on for several years. I was placed from one place to another. The liberation came at the last. I did come back although my body was completely demolished beyond repair. I could not bear child. How could I after that several years of that horrible abuse? My body was destroyed and my soul was shattered.”
This is a pathetic and atrocious story of a Korean woman, Bok Dong Kim who was enslaved as a Korean “Comfort Woman” raped by Japanese soldiers during World War II, 1941 from the documentary named “Rape is…”
This documentary presents poignant and heartbreaking stories of rape victims in a realistic way. It is half an hour documentary video which shows the ruthlessness and consequences of rape.
The documentary is the production of “A Cambridge Documentary Films” worked out by The Academy- Award winning producer/ directors of “Defending our lives.” This video inspects rape from a historic and worldwide perspective.
The success of this documentary is that it makes you feel the anguish and pain of the rape victims.
The documentary opens with the question, “Do you know what rape feels like?” It further moves with the reality that rape happens in the world, in home, in children’s bed room, on dates, in marital bed room, in brothels, in prison and on street.
This document is perfected by the real voices of the rape victims. It evokes the feelings of rape survivors after rape.
“There is a person before you get raped and there is a person after you get raped and that person after you get raped is always longing to be that person before; always trying to go back to that innocence. But they can’t.”
This is what every rape victims feel after they are raped says a rape victim in the documentary.
A woman in the documentary shares about the rape survivors, “Women say all the time that I just can’t seem to wash myself clean enough even I take shower five times a day, before work, after work, get up in the middle of the night because it is something inside your soul.”
This documentary describes rape as a crime against humanity, a kind of death, the end of trust, the theft of voice and a crime against humanity. It points out that any kind of unwanted sexual touch is rape.
It further takes out the issue of rape camps in Bosnia, Sear Leon, and Rwanda where hundreds and thousands of women were raped systematically as a tool of war.
It also elucidates how media images and pornography normalize rape. This documentary not only focuses about rape against women but also presents about the story of rape against men. The male rape victim’s story in the documentary makes realization how men, too are sexually assaulted.
Diane Rosenfeld who teaches women’s studies and legal issues at Harvard University and also a Senior Counsel at the Department of Justice in Washington in her lecture says, “There is not a single woman in this world who does not face the possibility of being raped.”
Eve Ensler, playwright (“The Vagina Monologues”) activist and founder of V-Day which is an international organization dedicated to stopping rape worldwide explains at the beginning of the documentary that rape has long term consequences and one who has been violated spends most of the time recovering and surviving.
The documentary ends with her strong statement, “Our energy should not be spent surviving and recovering. Energy should be spent creating, remembering, directing, and focusing. And if we work to get back that energy, I know the planet would be a completely different place.”
The documentary proclaims, “Rape is… will anger some, upset many and wake up every one who visits it; it speaks on to the reality of a world where sexual violence puts millions of women, children, and men in a state of terror and pain.”
Stop Rape! Fight Back!
This document is perfected by the real voices of the rape victims. It evokes the feelings of rape survivors after rape.
“There is a person before you get raped and there is a person after you get raped and that person after you get raped is always longing to be that person before; always trying to go back to that innocence. But they can’t.”
This is what every rape victims feel after they are raped says a rape victim in the documentary.
A woman in the documentary shares about the rape survivors, “Women say all the time that I just can’t seem to wash myself clean enough even I take shower five times a day, before work, after work, get up in the middle of the night because it is something inside your soul.”
This documentary describes rape as a crime against humanity, a kind of death, the end of trust, the theft of voice and a crime against humanity. It points out that any kind of unwanted sexual touch is rape.
It further takes out the issue of rape camps in Bosnia, Sear Leon, and Rwanda where hundreds and thousands of women were raped systematically as a tool of war.
It also elucidates how media images and pornography normalize rape. This documentary not only focuses about rape against women but also presents about the story of rape against men. The male rape victim’s story in the documentary makes realization how men, too are sexually assaulted.
Diane Rosenfeld who teaches women’s studies and legal issues at Harvard University and also a Senior Counsel at the Department of Justice in Washington in her lecture says, “There is not a single woman in this world who does not face the possibility of being raped.”
Eve Ensler, playwright (“The Vagina Monologues”) activist and founder of V-Day which is an international organization dedicated to stopping rape worldwide explains at the beginning of the documentary that rape has long term consequences and one who has been violated spends most of the time recovering and surviving.
The documentary ends with her strong statement, “Our energy should not be spent surviving and recovering. Energy should be spent creating, remembering, directing, and focusing. And if we work to get back that energy, I know the planet would be a completely different place.”
The documentary proclaims, “Rape is… will anger some, upset many and wake up every one who visits it; it speaks on to the reality of a world where sexual violence puts millions of women, children, and men in a state of terror and pain.”
Stop Rape! Fight Back!
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