［資料・英語］Remember the CW, NYC urges youth

Remember the comfort women of WWII, NYC urges youth

As the nation remembers the Filipino heroes of World War II for the Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor), the National Youth Commission (NYC) told the youth to remember the comfort women who were tortured and made into sex slaves by the Japanese military during WWII.

“Mahalaga na ating malaman ang kanilang mga kuwento, kung paano sila inabuso, sinaktan, ginahasa at pinilahan ng mga sundalong Hapon sa mga ‘comfort stations,’” said NYC chairman Leon Flores III said in a statement Monday.

Two years ago, the comfort women who survived their ordeal, petitioned government to take on their cause and push for reparations and official public apology from Japan. Collectively known as the Malaya Lolas, their petition was dismissed by the Supreme Court.

The Malaya Lolas have filed for a motion for reconsideration after Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo was accused of plagiarizing the court’s decision.

“Hanggang ngayon, wala pa silang nakakamit na hustisya at marami sa kanila ang namatay na,” Flores said, stressing the importance of the youth’s support for “our lolas.”

“We hope the young will realize that it is both a women’s issue and importantly, an issue of the country’s sovereignty,” the NYC official said.

During the Japanese occupation, hundreds of Filipino women were made to serve in “comfort stations” where they were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers. Many survivors recalled experiencing brutality and violence in the hands of the troops.

In 1992, Maria Rosa Henson became the first Filipina to come out in public, nspiring other survivors to reveal themselves. Since then, they have organized themselves into several groups, such as the Malaya Lola’s and Lila Filipina, and continue to lobby for justice. —Amanda Lago

GMA News 2012.4.9

[英語] Comfort women balk at impeaching Justice Del Castillo

フィリピンでは慰安婦問題は韓国とまるっきり違った展開をしている。政府VS左翼系の内輪モメのような・・・。少なくともフィリピンでは慰安婦問題は、ジャパン・バッシングの材料には使われていない。アキノ大統領は、落ち度があるとすれば、その責は自国の政府が負うべきだという態度である。

Comfort women balk at impeaching Justice Del Castillo

MANILA, Philippines—The House committee on justice was forced to cut short its hearing on the impeachment complaint against Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo on Tuesday not only for lack of a quorum but because the complainants said they did not really want him ousted.

Zambales Representative Milagros Magsaysay said the justice committee should drop the impeachment complaint against Del Castillo for plagiarism after one of the complainants belonging to the group of comfort women Malayang Lolas pulled a surprise on the lawmakers.

“We did not say we wanted him (Del Castillo) removed from his post but we only wanted our case reconsidered,” said Isablita Vinuya.

Committee members were to vote at Tuesday’s hearing whether there was probable cause to impeach Del Castillo. Last week, they had voted to uphold the complaint after declaring it sufficient in form.

Vinuya’s group had filed the impeachment complaint after Del Castillo penned a Supreme Court decision rejecting their appeal for compensation from the Japanese government for abuses committed against them by Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Del Castillo was found to have lifted portions of the decision from the opinions of foreign experts for which no proper attribution was made.

Magsaysay said that Vinuya and her group might not have understood the purpose of the impeachment complaint they had signed together with several lawmakers.

She said the committee should have focussed on Del Castillo’s act of plagiarism and not on the Supreme Court decision.

Magsaysay said the House majority had shown it was really behind the impeachment complaint against Del Castillo and not the comfort women, as shown by their questionable move to extend the 60-day limit for processing the impeachment complaint that was filed a year ago.

“It is obvious the comfort women are being used for their selfish political motives,” said Magsaysay.

Iloilo Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., the committee chairman, was unfazed by Vinuya’s testimony as he scheduled another hearing on the impeachment complaint next week.

Tupas pointed out that the comfort women were not the only complainants against Del Castillo but several House members as well.

However, after the committee hearing, Vinuya issued another statement saying they wanted Del Castillo impeached after all.

INQUIRER NEWS 2012.2.15

フィリピンの慰安婦デモ 3月2日

A Filipino comfort woman wipes her eyes as she joins a rally outside the Japanese Embassy in suburban Manila, Philippines on Wednesday Mar. 2, 2011. The old women protesters continue their demand for an apology and compensation from Tokyo for wartime sexual slavery.

BREITBART 2011.3

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