Seattle Times

11/08/95

Angered over the alleged rape of a 22-year-old Filipina as she rode in a van with six Marines, demonstrators railed Monday against the presence of U.S. troops in the Philippines. No charges have been filed in Wednesday's incident at the former Subic Bay naval base, but six Marines are being held by the U.S. Embassy in an undisclosed location. U.S. and Philippine officials are conducting separate investigations into allegations that the woman was raped and left by the roadside. Lurid details of the incident have been widely published in the Philippine media. One senator called the Marines 'sex terrorists.' Some critics said the case, like the mistreatment of detainees at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, was part of a pattern of abuse by U.S. forces abroad...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp