Comfort women protest Murayama

Sat, 03 Sep 1994, 00:00 WIB | 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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