mileng is 85, her sister lita is 83.lived their whole lives in mapanique, in the philippines. the second world war changed their lives completely. fidencia lives with her sons and grandsons in manila. she's 88 and earns a living through sewing. she is still haunted by what happened decades ago. she was 1a when japanese soldiers bombed her village and kidnapped her. she was held captive and repeatedly raped for ten days. she had become part of what historians believe is one of the biggest operations of sexual violence in modern history. the deliberate enslavement of up to 200,000 women across asia for the pleasure of japanese soldiers. the so—called ‘comfort women'. many were in south korea but far less is known about the victims in the philippines. but as the war went on, the operation unravelled. japanese soldiers started using rape to subdue towns and villages. what they did in mapanique, where sisters lita and mileng live, was particularly violent. over 100 women and girls were raped in the red house that night. and o