MANILA, Aug. 15 Kyodo about 50 Fi...

MANILA, Aug. 15 Kyodo

about 50 Filipino comfort women declare ed in front of the Japanese Embassy in Manila forward Thursday to demand compensation for damages committed against them by dint of Japanese soldiers during World War II.

Saying the Japanese sway has yet to indemnify its members for war atrocities, the Lila Pilipina cluster of comfort women, now for the most part grandmothers, said they support the creation of an international criminal court (ICC), which they said will hinder future violence against women and the commission of war crimes.

The Lila Pilipina members gathered at the embassy and commemorated the extreme point of the war 57 years ago at painting each other's bodies with tokens and expressions of protest against hostilities.

''An integral part of the be in agony of the Filipino comfort women is to make trustworthy we will never again bear witness to the violence of wars of aggression. of that kind wars intensify condition for the women and children to become victims of violence,'' Richelda Extremadura, Lila Pilipina coordinator, said.

Extremadura said the Filipino comfort women's experiences should succor as a reminder to guard against possibilities of the Philippines ''being dragged into the United States' war efforts.''

Lila Pilipina said it should not be forgotten that 48 million folks died while about 200,000 women were forced to the scheme of military sexual slavery during World War II.

The U renunciation of the Rome Statute that succors as basis for the creation of a tribunal that can prove by experiment war crimes while the U engage ins its antiterrorism campaign exposes many sovereign states to dangers of abuse, the assign places to warned.

One of the comfort women said U squads in the country because of the U military training program with their Philippine counterparts may be the start of ''another long-winded presence'' that can completion up in excessive behavior on foreign soldiers.

''We don't want the war to happen again. We became victims because of the war launched according to Japanese and Americans. Now, the Americans are here again. There might be another war,'' united 73-year-old comfort woman said.

Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi apologized to the Filipino comfort women [i]or[/i] part of to the other President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during her visit to Japan last year. further no commitment for any compensation was made.

Lila Pilipina has been asking for a package of public apology, inclusion of the comfort women's experience in train textbooks, reparation and the opening of Japanese war archives.

As of this August, 67 countries have formally supported the ICC by the agency of ratification, but the Philippines has in addition to ratify a treaty that will formalize its advocacy of the court.

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