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<blockquote data-quote="Naofumi" data-source="post: 45874" data-attributes="member: 39">According to interviews carried out by The New York Times and published by them in 2000, multiple elderly people from an Okinawan village confessed that after the United States had won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa" target="_blank">Battle of Okinawa</a> three armed <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Americans" target="_blank">African American</a> Marines kept coming to the village every week to force the villagers to gather all the local women, who were then carried off into the hills and raped. The article goes deeper into the matter and claims that the villagers&#039; tale – true or not – is part of a &quot;dark, long-kept secret&quot; the unraveling of which &quot;refocused attention on what historians say is one of the most widely ignored crimes of the war&quot;: &quot;the widespread rape of Okinawan women by American servicemen&quot;.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan#cite_note-FOOTNOTESims2000-3" target="_blank">[3]</a>When the Marines started to confidently carry out their weekly ritual unarmed, the villagers reportedly overwhelmed the men and killed them. Their bodies were hidden in the nearby cave out of fear for retaliation against the village, a village secret until 1997.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan#cite_note-FOOTNOTESims2000-3" target="_blank">[3]</a> Since the killings, the cave has been known by the locals as Kurombo Gama, which is translated either as &quot;Cave of The Negros&quot; or, less commonly, &quot;Niggers&#039; Cave&quot; (Kurombo 黒んぼ is an ethnic slur referring to black people)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Naofumi, post: 45874, member: 39"] According to interviews carried out by [I]The New York Times[/I] and published by them in 2000, multiple elderly people from an Okinawan village confessed that after the United States had won the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa']Battle of Okinawa[/URL] three armed [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_African_Americans']African American[/URL] Marines kept coming to the village every week to force the villagers to gather all the local women, who were then carried off into the hills and raped. The article goes deeper into the matter and claims that the villagers' tale – true or not – is part of a "dark, long-kept secret" the unraveling of which "refocused attention on what historians say is one of the most widely ignored crimes of the war": "the widespread rape of Okinawan women by American servicemen".[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan#cite_note-FOOTNOTESims2000-3'][3][/URL] When the Marines started to confidently carry out their weekly ritual unarmed, the villagers reportedly overwhelmed the men and killed them. Their bodies were hidden in the nearby cave out of fear for retaliation against the village, a village secret until 1997.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_during_the_occupation_of_Japan#cite_note-FOOTNOTESims2000-3'][3][/URL] Since the killings, the cave has been known by the locals as [I]Kurombo Gama,[/I] which is translated either as "Cave of The Negros" or, less commonly, "Niggers' Cave" (Kurombo 黒んぼ is an ethnic slur referring to black people) [/QUOTE]

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