“As there is a saying that people hate sin, but people should not hate sin,” said Grandma Lee. “There are talks about solving the’comfort women’ problem, reparing the victims, and apologizing, but what do Japanese people apologize for and why? You don’t know if you want to compensate,” he said.
He recalled, “I was a person who experienced firsthand what Japan was like (when invading Korea),” and “it was lawless at that time.” At the same time, he expressed his belief that the correct history should be properly communicated through exchanges with the Japanese.
Lee also said that in order to hide the Japanese government’s responsibility in relation to the comfort women issue, it is time to file a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for judgment. Regarding the dissertation of Harvard Law School’s’comfort women’ disclaimer,’ she said, “It doesn’t make much sense,” and “you should just ignore it.” This grandmother met with Minister of Gender Equality and Family Jeong Young-ae at a restaurant near Gwanghwamun that day, saying, “Japan is forcibly dragging it,” he said. There is too much evidence of human rights violations.” After criticizing Ramsay’s thesis, he said, “I don’t think the government has to deal with it directly.” Lee is a victim of Japanese military’comfort women’ and actively testifies to the damage of’comfort women’. He is an activist. He received worldwide attention after exposing the atrocities of the Japanese military at a public hearing in the US House of Representatives in 2007.
The movie’I Can Speak’ made with this grandmother as a subject also contains such anecdotes. This grandmother was selected as the first recipient of the Aesan Human Rights Award in 2016 in recognition of her contribution to the identification of the victims of the’comfort women’ and the human rights of women.
(Seoul = News 1)
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