Inside the isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia where 8 men were accused of raping more than a hundred women and girls, the horrific crime that inspired the film 'Women Talking'
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Inside the isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia where 8 men were accused of raping more than a hundred women and girls, the horrific crime that inspired the film 'Women Talking'
- "Women Talking" tells the story of women in a religious colony grappling with a series of sexual assaults, based on a 2018 book of the same name.
- The book, written by Miriam Toews, is inspired by actual events in Manitoba Colony, a Mennonite community in Bolivia.
- In 2009, eight men were convicted of raping and sexually assaulting more than 100 women in the colony.
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