期刊名称：Dalumat : Multikultural at Multidisiplinaryong E-Journal sa Araling Filipino
电子版ISSN：2094-4187
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
出版社：Philippine e-journals
摘要：This paper is a field note of my observation of "Malaya Lolas": their lives and activities after almost three decades of their participation in a global campaign for justice to the victims of sexual violence. Malaya Lolas is a group of victims of mass rape during the World War II in barrio Mapanique, Candaba, Pampanga. "Comfort Women" is a popular term for those sexually exploited by Japanese military in various parts of Asia. A transnational coalition of support groups began to persuade governments and international organizations such as the United Nations to seriously look into the war violence and reparation since the 1990s. Their voices are brought to the world arena, which in fact had been buried in memory of the war for nearly half a century. The progressive transnational movement, however, has not realized its long-desired state compensation and apology, although it contributed a lot to reveal the state's legal as well as moral responsibility. After almost two decades of global campaign on "comfort women," the lolas are less eager to talk to the public due to the frustration and also because their memory gets more and more vague. I wrote what I observed in being with the lolas in Mapanique for nearly two years, for their current lives need to be paid attention by support groups both domestic and international, to carry on the campaign for another decade.
