The Bahay na Pula in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, with its red walls almost gone, still stands as a house with a dark and painful history. Red is a very emotionally intense color of fire and blood as it is associated with war, death and danger. Built in 1929, it is a big, ancient two-floor house owned by the Ilusorio family […]
The Bahay na Pula in San Ildefonso, Bulacan, with its red walls almost gone, still stands as a house with a dark and painful history.
In Nov. 23, 1944, the Imperial Japanese Army attacked Mapaniqui in Candaba, Pampanga a suspected bailiwick of Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon .Filipino guerillas caught by the soldiers were starved, tied together, then burned alive. The women broke their silence in August 1996, four years after Maria Rosa Luna Henson made public her ordeal as a “comfort woman.”
However, officials of the Executive Department declined to assist the Malaya Lolas, and took the position that the individual claims of the comfort women for compensation had already been fully satisfied by Japan’s compliance with the Peace Treaty between the Philippines and Japan.
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