The recent decision of the UN committee on women siding with the comfort women is the only semblance of victory the lolas have attained recently.
MANILA, Philippines – Decades after the end of World War II, Filipino comfort women continue fighting for justice. As victims of sexual abuse and torture committed by Japanese soldiers, comfort women have been lobbying for the recognition of their rights.
But this place is no tourist spot, nor a symbol of the country’s rich culture – Bahay na Pula is a witness to the Japanese soldiers’ sexual abuses against Filipino comfort women during World War II. At the time, the building was used by Japanese soldiers as barracks. According to the lolas, they have been approaching the executive secretary, DOJ, DFA, and the OSG since 1998 to request for assistance in filing a claim “against the Japanese officials and military officers who ordered the establishment of the ‘comfort women’ stations in the Philippines.”
In arguing against the government before the High Court, the lolas said that the general waiver of claims done by the Philippine government with its Treaty of Peace with Japan was void. They said the comfort women system established by Japanese soldiers and the victims’ brutal rape and enslavement constituted crimes against humanity, sexual slavery, and torture.
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