COMFORT WOMEN ..the sex slavery WORLD WAR II

Over seventy decades had passed, estimates of the comfort women during World War II ranges from 80,000. And still some serving comfort women who was forced to serve their fragile body as early as age 11, treated as bad and sustained permanent damage to their mind and health seek for unfinished justice. 

The term "comfort women" as stated in Wikipedia was a euphenism use to describe women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese during World War II. Young women from countries under Japanese Imperial control were abducted from their homes. In many cases, women were also used with promise of work in factories or restaurants. Once recruited and abducted, the women are incarcerated  in comfort stations. Other women were rounded at gunpoint and being raped before even being brought to comfort stations.

Lola Precilla Bartonico was one of the comfort women. She was abducted by the Japanese Imperial Army in 1943 in Tamburaga, Burauen , Leyte.  A Filipina. She kept this pain all her life for 50 years just like other comfort women. She is surviving without getting any kind of formal apology or any financial award compensations from the brutality happened to her past. No one takes full responsibility of what happened to her. My parents are part of World War II. My father was Army who was part of Death March in Bataan and my mother was First Aide for the Philippine soldier. That's how they met in the soldier camp where my mother used to volunteer as a first aide. I remembered when my parents once told me about this comfort women during World War II but i would just ignore and  tell them how come i'ts not even stated and we didn't cover that topic in my Philippine history classes ever. So as i was reading the Lola's House: Women Living With War, an excerpt by M. Evelina Galang, this is the time  that i recalled what my parents were telling me about comfort women. Those Filipina comfort women had kept their silence and hide their trauma to themselves and yet the pain remained in their lives. They never voice it out. It's like when i child got molested and will kept carrying the damaged  through their life.It takes one woman to voice it out and it became part of the Philippine history now. It's hard to understand but its a permanent nightmare to them. The one that really hurts most is that how can it be compensated. Even a formal apology will not change any bit at all for all this years like what happened to Lola Precilla. She kept her own history to herself.