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S. KOREA IS FIGHTING

AGAINST USFK!!

The S. Korean semi.official news agency Yonhap reported yesterday, 5.6, following..

Prosecution to treat protesters against U.S. base sternly

South Korea's prosecution said Saturday that it will sternly deal with those who staged violent protests against a plan to establish an expanded U.S. facility south of Seoul.

About 540 demonstrators were arrested without warrants after they clashed with riot police who raided their stronghold building in Pyeongtaek, about 70 kilometers south of Seoul, on Thursday. Hundreds on both sides were injured.

The prosecution quickly requested a court issue warrants to officially arrest 37 of those suspected of launching more-violent protests, said Lee Kwi-nam, head of the prosecution's public security bureau.

After evicting protesters from the building, army engineers built a wire fence around the area designated to become the new headquarters of 30,000 U.S. troops in South Korea.

But the next day, protesters and villagers cut through the fences and clashed with riot police again. Police apprehended 100 protesters without warrants again.

The prosecution is expected to request warrants for 60 of them, Lee said.

"We cannot but take strict legal actions against violent protesters who oppose the U.S. base relocation," Lee told reporters.

The prosecution is also seeking to arrest those who allegedly masterminded the fence-cutting, he said.

Meanwhile, South Korea's Defense Ministry is considering providing army engineers dispatched to Pyeongtaek with protective gear such as shields, defensive batons and gas masks, a ministry official said.

About 11 soldiers were injured during Friday's clashes. The ministry is also considering additional barricades in front of the wire fences, the official said on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, the protestors' ad hoc committee, consisting of civic groups and local residents, issued a statement calling for the release of those arrested in the demonstrations and the resignation of the defense minister and the police chief.

"We demand for the defense minister and the head of the police to take full responsibility and resign for the enforced removal of residents and all the flurries caused by the expansion plan," the statement said.

The U.S. military plans to relocate its Yongsan Garrison in downtown Seoul and the 2nd Infantry Division near the border with North Korea to Pyeongtaek.

The existing Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek is set to triple in size by 2008 and become the U.S. military's chief installation in South Korea, which is part of the U.S. global troop realignment for flexibility.

Last year, the South government took legal control of about 3.49 million pyeong of land (one pyeong equals 3.3 square meters) and has since been seeking to clear the area of people who remain there.

But some farmers and organized protesters have defied government orders to leave the site and vowed to continue farming.

FASCIST POLICE TERROR!!

Al Jazeera published 5.5 following article..

Violence over US bases in S Korea

For Korean reports please check out

http://www.voiceofpeople.org/

..and of course

http://www.newscham.net/

..and last but not least

http://antigizi.or.kr/

NO RELOCATION OF USFK TO PYEONGTAEK!

JUST KICK OUT USFK!!

STOP THE STATE TERROR!