{"id":138334,"date":"2017-12-12T02:09:57","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=138334"},"modified":"2017-12-12T02:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T07:09:57","slug":"ph-has-no-official-stand-on-comfort-women-issue-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/12\/ph-has-no-official-stand-on-comfort-women-issue-palace\/","title":{"rendered":"PH has no official stand on comfort women issue\u2014Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_136305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136305\" style=\"width: 1350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136305\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Harry Roque stressed that the ICC is a \u201ccourt of last resort\u201d with a complementary, not primary, jurisdiction for the prosecution of serious crimes of international concern. (PCOO PHOTO)\" width=\"1350\" height=\"747\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque.jpg 1350w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Harry-Roque-1024x567.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Harry Roque (PCOO PHOTO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malaca\u00f1an on Monday said that the Philippines has no official stand on the issue of comfort women, after the erection of a statue on December 8, representing victims forced to work as sex slaves back in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Spokesman Harry Roque, in a press briefing, said that there is \u201cno official position\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that the statue was unveiled \u2013 well, is a fact. It was not stopped by the government. So for all intents and purposes, there is a statue allowed to be erected in memory of the comfort women,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt does not support, it does not oppose. It has no position currently,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Roque said that though the Duterte administration allowed the statue, it will \u201cnot affect the very good bilateral relationship with Japan right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think so because the relationship is at record-close, if there is such a thing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>A seven-feet bronze artwork dubbed as \u201cFilipino Comfort Women\u201d was unveiled to raise awareness on their \u2018victimization\u2019 during the Japanese colonization, on Roxas Boulevard baywalk, just a few kilometers from the Japanese embassy. It was sculpted by Jonas Roces, 40.<\/p>\n<p>The words \u201cThis monument is a reminder of the Filipino women who were victims of abuses during the occupation of the Japanese forces from 1942-1945. It took a while before they came out into the open to tell their stories\u201d was engraved on the statue.<\/p>\n<p>National Historical Commission of the Philippines collaborated with Lila Pilipina (League of Filipino Women) in conceptualizing the statue, which now wears a Filipiniana clothing and is blindfolded.<\/p>\n<p>Lila Pilipina and Malaya Lolas (Free Grandmothers) both documented stories of comfort women and demanded from the Japanese government an official apology, compensation, and historical texts about comfort women on Japanese textbooks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaca\u00f1an on Monday said that the Philippines has no official stand on the issue of comfort women, after the erection &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[5917,11223,15359,667,38430,38431,38432,12172,19085],"class_list":["post-138334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-comfort-women","tag-duterte-administration","tag-harry-roque","tag-japan","tag-jonas-roces","tag-lila-pilipina","tag-malaya-lolas","tag-national-historical-commission-of-the-philippines","tag-roxas-boulevard","mauthors-bea-kirstein-t-manalaysay","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}