Ruff o'herne han (1 risultati)
Editore: William Heinemann, Australia, 2008 (revised and updated edition)., 2008
Da: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, AustraliaAlexander Fax Booksellers
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Aggiungi al carrello*Sales/posting to the USA suspended*. Card covers, 214pp, b&w photos. A little wear to card edges/corners; a very good copy, Jan Ruff O'Herne's idyllic childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942. She was interned in Ambarawa Prison Camp along with her mother and two younger sisters. In Feb…ruary 1944, when Jan was just twenty-one years old, she was taken from the camp and forced into sexual slavery in a military brothel. Jan was repeatedly beaten and raped for a period of three months, after which she was returned to prison camp with threats that her family would be killed if she revealed the truth about the atrocities inflicted upon her. For fifty years, Jan told no-one what had happened to her, but in 1992, after seeing Korean war rape victims making appeals for justice on television, she decided to speak out and support them. Before she could testify publicly, though, she had to find a way to tell her family and friends about all she had suffered. Jan's survival is a tribute to her inner strength and deep faith, and she worked tirelessly from the early 1990s to protect the rights of women in war and armed conflict.