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2009.1.20: A two-hour long massive and extreme violent crackdown, executed by an Anti-terror/SWAT unit, against 40 activists, resisting a so-called "redevelopment" project in Yongsan, central Seoul, left at least six people dead and 17 injured... [☞ SWAT Unit Attacked Sit-in Strike, Executed Massacre... (2009.1.20)]

 
Yesterday(1.19) afternoon, almost 4 years later, about 2000 people(citizens and labor/resistance activists) rallied and demonstrated in downtown Seoul to remember the Yongsan Massacre, to demand final justice for the victims and the end of the unhuman so-called "redevelopment" projects...

 
Impressions from today's memorial service in Maseok("Moran Park", the cemetary for the victims of exploitation and oppression in S. Korea):

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