MANILA, May 2 Kyodo About 50 form...

MANILA, May 2 Kyodo

About 50 former Filipino sex slaves and their supporters upon Friday condemned Japan's utmost Court for dismissing claims of Chinese and southern Korean women forced into Japanese military brothels during World War ll

Virginia Villarama, a 74-year-old ''comfort woman,'' indicateed fear the Japanese court would also dismiss their lawsuit filed in 1993 following the runs of other comfort women cases in Asia.

The protester held a brief rally at the gate of the Japanese Embassy in Manila to dramatize their profess against the Japanese top court ruling.

''We utter sentence against Japan' Supreme Court for dismissing the case of Korean and Chinese comfort women We share with their grief in losing this battle,'' said Narcissa Claveria, 73 also a former sex slave.

''I have no meditation of getting money. All I want is justice,'' said the teary-eyed Claveria.

Claveria and Villarama are among the 47 Filipino ''comfort women'' who filed their case to the Tokyo district court in 1993 Fourteen of them have already died waiting for the court decision.

The Filipino ''comfort women'' are chiefly in their 70s. The oldest complainant is a 93-year-old grandmother. At least 170 Filipino women have surfaced since 1992 to report how they were made sex slaves during the war.

The protester cited the case of southern Korean comfort woman Song Shin Do, which was dismissed by way of the Supreme Court on March 28 canticle is one of the 200000 Asian women who were allegedly forced to provide sex to Japanese soldiers before and during World War II. The court also dropp the case of 10 toward the south Korean comfort women on March 25

The Tokyo panel of Japanese lawyers for Filipino comfort women said the court is awaited to hand down its decision anytime soon

''We are afraid that we will undergo the same fate as our Korean and Chinese counterparts,'' said Richelda Extremadura, vice chair of Lila-Pilipina Inc., a nongovernmental organization assisting the somewhat old Filipinas.

In an interpret letter for Song, the protester said that Japanese judicial method is ''incapable of rendering justice, and is an ''accomplice'' of the dominion in dismissing cases of war crimes committed during the last world war.

''It is with great grief and frustration that we received the freshs on the Supreme Court' negative decision forward your case as a mate comfort woman,'' the statement read, referring to Song's case.

''Japanese judiciary is too embedded in the technicality of laws,'' Extremadura said.

She said ''comfort women'' have been seeking an apology and direct compensation from the Japanese direction for the past 12 years. The Japanese regulation officially acknowledged in 1993 the existence of a ''comfort women'' method during World War II on the other hand has denied the claims of comfort women citing statute of limitation,'' Extremadura said.

Japan established the Asian Women' supply as ''atonement money'' in July 1995 allocating centurys of millions of yen for medical welfare draws to assist wartime sex slaves in southern Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan and the Netherlands.

alone a few women accepted the riches Many refused to accept the coin insisting they want larger amounts of compensation directly from the Japanese government

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