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| Representatives of the Dokdo Love Association Youth Volunteer Group are reading a statement at the Dokdo Public Relations Center located in Goyang-si, condemning Professor Mark Ramzier, who has recently been controversial. (Provided by Dokdo Love Association) © News 1 |
Civic groups related to Dokdo have condemned Professor J. Mark Ramseyer of Harvard University, who has recently been controversial for a dissertation on the Japanese military comfort women.
Territory Guardian, Dokdo Love Association (President Lee Unju) and Dokdo Love Association Youth Volunteer Group (CEO Lee Chae-ha, Goyang Foreign High School Kim Jin-seo, Park Seon-woo, Shin Yu-jin), Dokdo Love National Solidarity (CEO Park Shin-cheol), Dokdo Public Relations Office, YCA Youth Consultants Association , CEOs and executives of civil society organizations such as ACEVA and Dongguk University STAF Volunteer Corps released a statement condemning Professor Mark Ramzier for betraying the scholarly conscience at the Dokdo Public Relations Center in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province.
The background of the condemnation of these organizations, saying, “We are being blamed by the international community for abuses and human rights abuses against Japanese military comfort women following the invasion of Dokdo by using Professor Ramsey who abandoned his academic conscience with the support of war criminal companies.” Explained.
Dokdo Love Association Chairman Gil Jong-seong said, “Every year we held a condemnation event in front of the Japanese embassy girl’s costume, but this year, following last year, we are holding a condemnation event with youth delegation at the Dokdo Public Relations Center for Corona 19.” “I urge Professor Ramsey to resign, who is taking international embarrassment.”
Yoo Jin Yang Shin, who attended the Dokdo Love Association Youth Volunteer Group, said, “Professor Mzier’s argument for advocating war crimes against the Japanese military comfort women does not end only in the historical dispute between Korea and Japan. This is a violation of women’s rights, and furthermore, it is an act of blasphemy for human dignity.”
The youth delegation further emphasized that Professor Ramsey’s “must be withdrawn from Ramsayer’s dissertation, who points out the academic truth in the thesis, does not check even substantive data, and fails to re-review even the academic grounds he claims.”
After the announcement of the condemnation statement that day, these organizations and youth delegations will send a letter urging the Japanese embassy and the president of Harvard University to urge the withdrawal of Takeshima Day and the apology of Professor Ramsey.