Comfort Woman statue on Roxas Boulevard removed

Where is she? Social media asks.

The comfort Woman statue on Roxas Boulevard was removed Friday night, and netizens are wondering what happened to the seven-foot bronze statue of a woman, a symbol of the Japanese sex slave.

On Sunday, April 29, 2018, only a pit is left behind at the place where the bronze statue of a woman symbolizing the World War II sex slave abused by the Japanese Imperial Army is installed five months ago on Roxas Boulevard, Manila. The Japanese government in December 2017 demanded that the statue be demolished. DANNY PATA

Snapping photos of the backhoe, presumably used to remove the National Historical Commission of the Philippines marker, many netizens are asking whatever happened to the statue while others are angry are calling it yet another form of revisionism.

Yet another attempt to revise history and delete memories on Japanese atrocities.

Nice try but hey, people won't stop educating the future generations about these brutal acts by foreign nations before. https://t.co/Oj1WfNsyt0

— fifigandanghari ???? (@AlfonsoLabrague) April 28, 2018

The move casts a foul insult on hundreds of victims of sex slavery during the Japanese Imperial Army’s occupation of the Philippines in World War II, the women's group said.

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— Altermidya (@Altermidya) April 29, 2018

the comfort woman statue ????????

— ezekielbavtista (@KielBautista20) April 28, 2018

Tinanggal na ang Comfort Woman statue na dating nakatayo sa Roxas blvd sa Manila. Ayon kay Atty. Ericson Alcovendaz, manila city administrator, ito ay para sa gagawing flood control program ng DPWH. Bukod dito, nakatakda ding alisin ang unang hakbang at marine officer statue pic.twitter.com/UEtLhOJDzJ

— Fred Cipres (@RPfredcipres) April 28, 2018

On Sunday, President Duterte defended the removal of the statue so as not to insult Japan. — LA, GMA News