Tag archive for ‘Comfort women’

  • ‘The plagiarism was a second rape’–Filipino comfort women

    18 December 2010

    By MYLAH REYES-ROQUE
    ISABELITA C. Vinuya, 79; Pilar Q. Galang, 80; Maxima R. Dela Cruz, 82; Leonor H. Sumawang,79; and Maria L. Quilantang 80, are five women who belong to the group “Malaya Lolas.” They traveled from Mapaniqui in Candaba, Pampanga to Manila on Dec. 14 to pursue their fight for justice. »Read More

  • Lawyer says SC decision vs. comfort women riddled with plagiarized statements

    20 July 2010

    By ELLEN TORDESILLAS IN the sunset of their lives, 17 Malaya Lolas (Liberated Grandmothers) staged a rally Monday before the Supreme Court protesting the plagiarism in the decision that denied them remedy for the wartime savagery they suffered. CenterLaw’s Harry Roque, counsel for 40 grandmothers who were forced to serve as “comfort women” to Japanese »Read More