Events/Artifacts (north to south) Events/Artifacts Artifacts The Bahay na Pula (Tagalog, 'Red House') is a former hacienda in San Ildefonso, Bulacan in the Philippines.

The site is remembered for the mass rapes and murders committed by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.

[1][2][3] The Japanese military murdered all of the men and boys in the adjacent Mapaniqui, Candaba, Pampanga, and forced over 100 women and girls into sexual slavery, confining and raping them in the Red House.

Women, who numbered more than a hundred and came from the local provinces of Bulacan and Pampanga, were ordered to carry provisions and loot to the Red House, which Japanese troops were using as a garrison.

In 1997, "The Malaya Lolas" (The Free Grandmothers), an organization of women fighting for their rights and compensation for the losses from the war, was established in Pampanga.

[3] The Filipino survivors demand that the Japanese government take legal responsibility by making a public apology that will explicitly acknowledge the sexual violence committed against the women, and providing compensation to the victims.