Comfort women protest Murayama

Sat, 03 Sep 1994 | Source: AFP

MANILA (AFP): Filipino women who fell victim to sexual slavery during Japan's occupation of the Philippines in World War II yesterday picketed the Japanese embassy here.

Around 30 women carried placards denouncing Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama's announcement of a US$1 billion program for "friendship projects" between Japan and the Asian countries it overran during the war.

In a statement, the Lila-Pilipina, a group advocating direct compensation for the Filipino comfort women said Japan's action showed it was "unwilling to face the ugly facts of history."

The women said they would also picket the Foreign Department here to protest the "callous statements" of a Filipino ministry official who said "if someone does you wrong, you do not ask for compensation."

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