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The anguish of the Filipino comfort women has not stopped.
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While PNoy and Japanese PM meet, Lolas cry for justice
Text and photos by JOHNNA VILLAVIRAY-GIOLAGON THERE were six of them, all in their 80s. They walked in a shuffle careful about balance. Accompanied by supporters, they braved the heat of the morning sun, to knock on the gates of Malacañang Palace, where President Aquino was meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, crying for justice
Plight of comfort women revisited in a 1947 Filipino novel
By PABLO A. TARIMAN IF Lola Rosa were alive, she would have been 85 today. One of the unrealized film projects of Marilou Diaz-Abaya was one touching on the story of Ma. Rosa Luna Henson, known as Lola Rosa, the first Filipina to tell her story as a comfort woman for the Imperial Japanese
‘The plagiarism was a second rape’–Filipino comfort women
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.
Lawyer says SC decision vs. comfort women riddled with plagiarized statements
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
