After the disaster, the disaster for girls has just begun.
Temporary shelters full of devastation and overcrowding, hundreds of people living in the same room, a total of tens of thousands of people living in such a living environment, the despicability of human nature began to sprout, and some people began to stretch out their claws.
No one would have thought that such a thing would happen.
Earlier this year, after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck Ishikawa Prefecture in Japan, a series of posts began to emerge on Twitter calling for public awareness of sexual violence in shelters. We were surprised by the large number of such posts that were retweeted.
Only the Japanese people know that natural disasters will be followed by man-made encroachments, which have occurred frequently in the past.
During the Kumamoto earthquake in April 2016, the police found about 10 cases of sexual assault and harassment in the vicinity of the evacuation center, including physical assault and harassment such as forcing them to watch pornography.
In the years that followed, cases related to the earthquake continued to emerge.
In early 2017, a girl under the age of 15 told about her victimization.
After the earthquake, the girl went to a relative's house with her family and was molested while she was asleep. A year later, the girl was diagnosed with severe stress reaction, which made her finally confess.
"If you had spoken out at that time, not only yourself, but also your own family would have been kicked out. ”。
Compared with the intimate scene under the fence, the shelter of collective coexistence is reduced to a jade futon for the wicked.
In the temporary shelters, the self-government administrators are mostly men, and they are responsible for carrying food, arranging locations, managing security, and so on.
Some use their power for personal gain, negotiate terms with young girls, and have to pay for better positions and more food.
When night comes, lustful people lurk in the girl's sleeping bunk. It is difficult for the management team to manage it, but in fact, it turns a blind eye.
"If you don't have a safe space, you're reaching out to people who are taking advantage of your vulnerability and hurting you. ”
Sam Hewitt, regional director of charity ShelterBox, told Byline Times.
"Studies have shown that people are more likely to commit gender-based violence when they are stressed. ”
"Sexual assault can easily happen when places that are out of safety are vulnerable and against powerful parties who are also under pressure. ”
This theory coincides with the statements of some netizens.
In their eyes, they don't think it's a violation, but they think it's something that warms each other and accomplishes each other.
Romanticizing their motives for committing crimes is the essential reason why sexual assault is difficult to eradicate in the face of disaster.
Based on this principle, post-disaster sexual violence is a common phenomenon worldwide.
In 2018, Hurricane Mike swept through Florida in the United States, and the 60-year-old man who molested a 6-year-old child was arrested.
In the 2005 Hurricane Katrina in the United States, the Gulf Coast Sexual Violence Crisis Center received more than 100 calls related to sexual assault.
Of those, 30% took place in shelters, 38% of the attackers were strangers, and 36% of the victims were between the ages of 15 and 24.
Suffice it to say that this has nothing to do with sexual attractiveness. Under special conditions, young girls are more vulnerable and more likely to be targeted by perpetrators.
Last September, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. Soon after, an adult man, who was a volunteer after the disaster, posted a photo of the 10-year-old girl with himself on social media.
"When she grows up, we'll get married. ”
Many men in the comment area also went up, fantasizing about themselves as saviors, and "saving" these girls with "love".
A 20-year-old student from the city of Erachidia boasted that he would be traveling to the earthquake-stricken area to give his life to warmth.
According to media reports, such news has been linked to sexual crimes in the area, and men have been detained for promoting such content.
Although sexual violence has been reported in many parts of Europe and the United States, it was not until after the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 that a full-scale investigation was first conducted in Japan.
The documentary "25 Years of Truth About Buried Voices – Sexual Violence in Disaster" documents this truth.
According to the staff of Yorisoi, a women's psychological hotline established in March 2012, more than half of the more than 360,000 calls between 2013 and 2018 were related to sexual violence in the three hardest-hit prefectures of Fukushima, Iwate and Miyagi.
"'You must be sad to lose your husband, I will give you towels and food, come to me in the evening to get it. The person in charge of the evacuation center said to me. When I went to him, he openly forced me to have sex with him. ”
A hotline call is almost like this. Since it is difficult to collect evidence, it can only become a demon in the heart of the victim woman, which cannot be eliminated.
After the Great East Japan Earthquake, women speak out about their history of sexual violence
Yorisoi Hotline
The documentary has attracted both domestic and international attention.
Many netizens were shocked by the image of Japan facing the disaster. I thought that their response and handling of disasters were very decent, but behind the scenes, there were quite a lot of such bad things.
Japanese netizens commented that in order to maintain the international image, the authorities took the initiative to ignore the seriousness of the post-disaster sexual violence incident, which is the reason for the contrast.
"The secondary damage after the disaster needs to be collectively addressed by the whole society, and the construction of infrastructure such as the installation of cameras, strict law enforcement, and correct gender education will be promoted in an all-round way. ”
Mieko Yoshiyama, a professor at the University of Michigan, told the media.