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10:29, 09-Dec-2017
'Comfort women' statue unveiled in the Philippines
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The Philippines unveiled a statue representing "comfort women" in the capital Manila on Friday, in honor of about 1,000 Filipino victims who were forced to work as sex slaves for Japanese soldiers during World War II.
The two-meter-tall bronze sculpture depicts a woman wearing a scarf on her head, with her eyes blindfolded. The statue stands on the baywalk in Roxas Boulevard, where major Philippine ministries and the Japanese embassy in the Philippines are located.
National Historical Commission of the Philippines Chairman Rene Escalante said that the monument was erected to preserve the memory of the suffering of the "comfort women." The victims are still pursuing justice till this day.
The Philippines was a Japanese colony from 1942 to 1945. During this period, about 1,000 Filipino women were forced to become "comfort women."
Lila Pilipina (League of Filipino Women) has documented 174 "comfort women" who have gone public since the early 1990s. Only a few of them are still alive, leaving fewer and fewer victims left to pursue what they see as justice.
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