Maria Quilantang was one of the lucky ones. To this day, she can still remember the sound of warplanes and the footsteps of Japanese soldiers as they stormed her village in central Philippines.
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Nearly 80 years since they were abducted and raped by Japanese soldiers, a small group of elderly Filipino women hope their government will finally acknowledge their wartime ordeal by creating a compensation fund.