MANILA, Philippines ---Lila-Pilipina, a group of "comfort women" survivors and advocates, on Tuesday slammed the Japanese government's protest against a one-meter bronze statue of a girl unveiled in San Pedro, Laguna. "While many expensive and sprawling Japanese memorials are being set up in different parts of the Philippines that honor the kamikaze bombers who murdered thousands of Filipinos, we are enraged that simple shrines for our suffering comfort women are being denied and made bargaining chips for financial development aid," Sharon Cabusao-Silva, executive director of Lila-Pilipina, said in a statement. The group issued the remark after the Japanese Embassy in the country e...
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