THE LAST TEAR Short Film – Playing at the May 26th Doc Short Film Fest

RSVP for the Documentary Short Film Festival – Thursday May 26, 2016. Carlton Cinemas, downtown Toronto. 9pm

Playing at the festival: 

THE LAST TEAR, 11min, USA, Documentary
Directed by Christopher Lee

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Sexual violence against women has accompanied almost every large-scale conflict, yet most of its victims are silenced. One such sad episode is that of the “comfort women,” or more accurately, the estimated 200,000 women who were recruited to sexually serve the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. As part of this immense system, many young women from all over Japan’s occupied territories in Asia were forced into service where they faced rape, torture and extreme violence at military camps, euphemistically termed “comfort stations.”

Since the early 1990s, the testimonies of these women shocked the world, and were eventually taken up as a serious human rights issue by the United Nations, a host of governments, and…