The leader of the surviving victims of sexual slavery during the Japanese occupation is appealing to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to immediately seek reparations from Japan on their behalf. | ttorejasINQ /PDI
‘Repeated efforts’
Cedaw, in its decision, also cited the ordeal that Malaya Lolas went through on Nov. 23, 1944, when the group’s 24 surviving members and other women now deceased were “forcibly taken to the Bahay na Pula , the Japanese headquarters in San Ildefonso, Pampanga.” There the women, including girls who were not yet in their teens, were repeatedly abused. At times mothers and their daughters were raped in the same room.Lalu, who was only nine years old at that time, said more than 90 of them were still alive when they first raised that episode to the public’s attention in 1996.“They’re so old. They should get a taste of justice while they are still alive,” said Enrique Catacutan, village chief of Mapaniqui.
He also said the DOJ has formed a “study group” led by Undersecretary Raul Vasquez to consider Cedaw’s decision.
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