{"id":10774,"date":"2019-11-05T16:01:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/05\/bangladesh-1970s-camp-survivors-speak-out"},"modified":"2019-11-05T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T07:01:13","slug":"we-lay-like-corpses-bangladeshs-1970s-rape-camp-survivors-speak-out-lucy-lamble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=10774","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We lay like corpses&#8217;: Bangladesh&#8217;s 1970s rape camp survivors speak out | Lucy Lamble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country\u2019s war of independence<\/p>\n<p>In 1971, during the nine-month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2008\/apr\/10\/bangladesh1971\">war<\/a> that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sisters \u2013 Amina, Maleka, Mukhlesa and Budhi Begum \u2013 were abducted by Pakistani soldiers and local collaborators. They were among the more than 200,000 women held in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2014\/apr\/15\/silence-bangladesh-birangona-women-of-war-play\">rape camps<\/a> and were detained for two and a half months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty-two of us would lie like corpses in that room,\u201d says Maleka as she explains how her elder sister Buhdi, \u201cunable to bear the pain\u201d, died before they were released.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2019\/nov\/05\/bangladesh-1970s-camp-survivors-speak-out\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Award-winning documentary Rising Silence preserves the testimony of some of the 200,000 women abducted during the country\u2019s war of independenceIn 1971, during the nine-month war that gave Bangladesh its independence from then West Pakistan, four sister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,87,71,707,69,59,242,440,79,61,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-conflict-and-arms","category-culture","category-documentary-films","category-film","category-global-development","category-rape-and-sexual-assault","category-sexual-violence","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10775,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10774\/revisions\/10775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}