Philippines: Supreme Court: Court makes fool of itself in sanctioning Law School that defended Comfort Women

I'm not going to talk legalese here, except as necessary.  I'm wr+ting to defend the defenders of the Comfort Women, ladies who were subjected to severe mental and physical immiseration by the Japanese army of occupation during Word War II, and then further exploited by the neglect of the re-established Philippines government over these several decades.

In 2004 the process of defence of the long-suffering women began at the University of Philippines, Law Faculty in Manila the country's capital.  The legal defence began with the formulation of the comfort women petition.  In 2006, Diane Desierto and Harry Roque published their analysis and theory of Comfort Women's Defence in the Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict the initial defence was well placed in this scholarly journal's pages becawz the contestation was pointed at the responsibility of the Philippines govt (Executive Branch) to address the Japan govt in regard to wart+m transgressions of the latter country.   You can read this very long file for its most relevant pages (91-98).  On April 28,2k10 the Philippines Supreme Court created a terrible day of infamy for itself by issuing its decision in response to the petition and the notification regarding the petition in the scholarly journal where international human r+ts is among its chief concerns, a notification resulting in a level of publicity and scrutiny that the Court coudn't bear.

In a careful law strategy the UP Law Faculty advocates had petitioned on behalf of the "surviving World War II 'comfort women' who were seeking an apology and remuneration from Japan, by asking the Supreme Court of the Philippines  to compel the Executive Branch to ensure them their r+ts to redress" from Japan. [Owlbirdbet Crossover spellings will sometimes intrude, even into quotes and titles.]

I will refer to the Supreme Court of the Philippines as SCP.  The April 2k10 decision of SCP was written for the Court by its Justice Mariano del Castillo, and that horrible refusal of the petition protected the Executive Branch of the Philippines government in its inaction and mercilessness.  It didn't have to bother diplomatically, or in an International Court of Justice, the Japanese government to redress the pain and suffering of the Comfort Women during Japan's WWII occupation of the Philippines.  We must not lose attention to and care for the women who were victims, as much as any combat soldier f+ting under the Philippines military or General MacArthur when he landed in the Islands to dr+v out the occupiers.  But, you know, women don't count, especially when stained by the nature of their exploitation.

-- Lawt

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