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Dear Mr. President, it is by what we divine to be the grace of providence that you have been sent to succeed where all your post-war predecessors have failed. Pending over the past decades are claims for damages suffered by Filipino comfort women at the hands of the Japanese Imperial Forces who had come to our islands in the early forties to wage a war that was not even ours.
Now late in their years the petitioners in G.R. No 162230 still hope — albeit in deeper despair — that justice will soon shine upon them despite the fact that the Supreme Court has already dismissed their petition.
Soon, Mr. President — because at no other time has it become transcendentally urgent for you to use your Excellency’s persuasive powers to personally negotiate with Japan’s Prime Minister the petitioners’ just claims before they leave their twilight years. Parenthetically, we believe that although further ventilation on the level of agencies and alter egos would be futile, you may nonetheless take a summit initiative for the dispute’s satisfactory settlement.
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100722com5.html
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