The comfort women (survivors) have their own (decision-making) mechanisms to make, you know, their own thinking and their own decisions. I also think they have to be respected in whatever capacity they understand what is good for them. I believe that we (the supporters) have to accept it (the survivors' decisions), even if it's different from my or our own opinions. It is supporting their (the survivors') decision, it is not supporting AWF.... It was their (the Lolas') decision too, to be assisted in the process of their application. But it didn't mean that we, the supporters, believed that the AWF was a correct response to address the victims' demand for justice and compensation from the Japanese government. That is why we continued our advocacy for legal compensation,even during the process of AWF distribution to some victims, and sustained the collective actions such as demonstrating in front of the Japanese embassy whenever it is possible for the victims and us to do so). (Full text)