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STOP THE OCCUPATION!!

Already some days ago (11.3) Korea Herald reported following:

 Riot police unit to guard U.S. base site  
   
Police said yesterday they plan to keep riot police units around a U.S. base site from next week in Pyeongtaek, 70 kilometers south of Seoul.

The 14 units comprising 1,400 riot police will replace police troops to more effectively secure the site designated for a U.S. military base expansion.

Police have dispatched 32 rotating units to fend off attempts by local residents and anti-U.S. activists to break into the fenced land.

Protesters have staged a series of fierce resistances against the plan to triple the size of U.S. Camp Humphreys. The expansion is planned to take place by 2008.
 
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/site/data/html_dir/2006/11/03/200611030037.asp?kpage=11&kppage=1&scode=FA&art_id%22=

Now, since y'day, it seems that the government/police/military wants to carry out/realize its threat!

In the latest online edition of (the conservative/extreme rightwing) JoongAng Daily following was published:

"Military engineers laying concertina wire yesterday on an expanded perimeter of the U.S. base site in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi province. The barrier is an attempt to keep dogged anti-U.S. protesters from entering the area." [NEWSIS-JoongAng Ilbo, 11.8]

The Internet magazine Voice of the People (VoP) published just a short while ago following pictures about yesterday's occupation activities by the SK military in the area of Pyeongtaek-Daechuri/Daeduri:

Unfortunately there is no detailed information in English about the latest developments there available..

But VoP published a report (in Korean), incl. two docu videos. Please check it out here:

평택 철조망 추가 설치...지킴이들 진입하다 연행

More here:

국방부의 야만적인 추가철조망작업 시작!!

(평택미군기지확장저지 범국민대책위원)

철조망 추가 설치로 주민들 고립압박 자행하는

국방부를 규탄한다. (With a lot of pictures!!)

http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_news&action=viewForm&uid=1363&page=1

평택 20만평 철조망 추가설치...주민 반발 (Ohmynews)

www.saveptfarmers.org (NEWS) wrote following report:

Police and soldiers invade and fence off Pyeongtaek fields

A huge number of police and soldiers attacked Daechuri and Doduri fields on November 8th. The soldiers dug up the edge of the fields with backhoes and set barbed wire all day long, surrounded by the police on guard. On the previous day, the Ministry of National Defense had announced that they were planning to add 2.8 km of barbed wire to the fields in Daechuri and Doduri, in order to block the residents from farming in the fields that hadn't been fenced off in May. They also said that they had invented a special unit of 1,400 soldiers to put on guard in the fields every day.
 

This most recent barbed wire attack is considered to be another tactic to make people give up their struggle by stopping their farming. The farmers had been farming the fields collectively since May. They had successfully completed this season's rice harvest and were preparing to plant winter crops. The attack has made the situation of struggle worse, especially after the residents' representative, Kim Ji-Tae was given 2 years-prison sentence last week.
 

While the police and soldiers were working on the barbed wire, several KCPT activists ran into the field crying, "Stop it!", "Don't break the peace!" and "Give up on extending the base!". Soon after, they were surrounded by the police and arrested. The other members of KCPT were having an urgent press conference in front of the police line and protesting, "Stop digging the field and setting the barbed wire, and free Kim Ji-Tae right now!"
 

However, the number of people who struggled this day was just about 20 while the police and the army moved more than 2 helicopters and 45 infantry companies to carry out the attack...(!!!)