TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 5月2日 23時00分

The children that the U.S. military left behind in the Philippines: Tens of thousands of Filipinos have been neglected since birth due to “dramatic exposure to racial prejudice, bias, and discrimination,” among other factors. Often referred to as Amerasians—people fathered and abandoned by American servicemen stationed overseas—they’re estimated to number in the hundreds of thousands when counting their children.

In 1992, then-President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos made note of these “throwaway children,” as he called the Amerasians. “The welfare of these young Filipino-Americans remains the joint responsibility of both countries,” Ramos said during a changing of the guard ceremony at Subic Bay, adding that he would “not allow them to end up in poverty.”

But in the end, no one took responsibility.

Read the full story at the link in bio.

Photographs by Geric Cruz (@gericcruz) for TIME

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