Philippines Comfort Women
The statue reported to have been a one meter tall seated girl with a vacant chair next to her was unveiled just two days before on.
Philippines comfort women. Such victims can be thought of as equivalent to comfort women. Shallah montero for the washington post advocates worry their fight is not only being forgotten but actively erased. A series of portraits of former comfort women hang on the office wall of lila pilipina an organization that gathers survivors of wartime sexual slavery in manila.
In the philippines it is estimated that 1 000 women were forcibly seized by japanese soldiers to serve as comfort women. Contrary to what most japanese history books say comfort women are not prostitutes. They are sisters wives daughters mothers and homemakers that were taken by force from their homes.
The installation was meant to pay homage to the estimated 200 000 comfort women from south korea taiwan indonesia the netherlands and the philippines who were condemned to a life of rape and enslavement by the imperial japanese army during world war ii. In 1993 after women in south korea the philippines and other places started speaking out the japanese government offered sincere apologies and remorse to all those irrespective of place of.