Daily News | Advocates and opponents clash in hearing over Korean ‘comfort women’ statue proposed for Queen Village
Here is an image of the statue honoring Korean "comfort women." Advocates are seeking to place the memorial around the world. This photograph shows the statue in Glendale, Calif.
More opponents than supporters spoke at Monday’s nearly three-hour Zoom session, with many saying that by accepting the statue, the city of Philadelphia would be needlessly taking sides in a geo-political conflict — or, as Patrick Dailey, a leader of the Japanese American Association of Greater Philadelphia, put it, “drawn into an issue better handled by the State Department, not cities.”
Anglin noted that the city Human Relations Commission had reported no increase in hate or harassment of Asians in other U.S. cities with the statue. Four critics of the statue cited what they said were atrocities committed by South Korean troops who fought on the American side during the Vietnam War. They were referencing a more recent debate in whichhave called upon South Korea to officially apologize for sex assaults in that war — much like Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe apologized over “comfort women” in 2015. .
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