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From yesterday's Hankyoreh:
Tenants forcibly evicted from Myeong-dong and Poi-dong
Forcible evictions remain ongoing under the Lee administration, as redevelopment projects continue to trump tenant rights
“I do not think these methods are right. Something unacceptable has happened.”
In a telephone interview Friday with the Hankyoreh, Bae Jae-hun, head of the tenant countermeasures committee for Zone 3 in Seoul's Myeong-dong neighborhood, said he had returned to the hospital that morning due to pain in his face and various areas of his body after being beaten by hired security personnel.
Bae, who has been holding a sit-in protest at Cafe Mari in the redevelopment area in Seoul’s Jung (Central) District demanding that measures be taken for relocation, was hospitalized Wednesday after attempting to fend off around one hundred hired security employees who came at him suddenly that morning. The employees dragged out tenants, along with university student and citizen sympathizers, and occupied the cafe before withdrawing Thursday night.
“There is clearly a law against this,” sighed Bae. “How are the security workers able to use these kinds of violent tactics?”
Friday morning saw a press conference in front of the cafe to denounce the rough tactics of the security workers(*). Around twenty people took part, including not only Myeong-dong tenants but also Cho Cheol-sun, head of the joint Poi-dong reconstruction village residence restoration countermeasures committee, as well as Korean Tutors’ and Education Laborers’ Union Secretary General Yu Deuk-gyu.
Residents of the Poi-dong reconstruction village, a Gangnam shanty town that was half destroyed in a fire, also clashed with around 50 hired security workers who had arrived at the village early Wednesday morning to tear it down. The Korean Tutors’ and Education Laborers’ Union, which had been holding a protest in the area of Seoul Plaza demanding that JEI reinstate fired workers and stop its union suppression efforts, saw its protest site forcibly demolished Monday by Jung-gu District Office and a security employee agency.
At the press conference, the participants said that tenants in Myeong-dong's Zone 3, Poi-dong residents, and education workers would continue fighting in spite of “attempts to keep us quiet with violence.”
“We denounce the contracted personnel’s violence that is being indiscriminately perpetrated, and the government that stands by and allows it to happen,” they added.
In response to this, an official with the Zone 3 developer said, “There was some clashing in the process of trying to uphold property rights, and the conflict crew because there were a lot of people from outside along with the tenants.”
The official added that the company plans to guarantee the tenants’ ability to protest until August 16, when a final trial is scheduled for the eviction suit.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/490676.html
* "security workers"(^^):
In fact organized gangsters, hired by the Daewoo Construction(MAFIA), aka the "Myeong-dong Zone 3 developer"
PS: Between Wednesday afternoon and Thursday evening the "security workers" (backed by the cops) injured at least 22 activists who are (still) resisting the so-called "redevelopment" project in Myeong-dong!!
Latest news: Comrades involved in the 'frontline struggle' told me few hours ago "Wir haben gewonnen. Mari wird uns widergehört. Das Kraft von twitter ist ganz machtvoll. Durch 2 tage solidaritieren viele Menschen. Aber einige Leute verletzen sich... Und unsere Instrumente sind zerbrochen..." -- i.e. the Myeong-dong Resistance Collective has been able - after two days of fierce fights with scores of organized gangsters(hired by Daewoo Construction MAFIA), finally backed by the police - to retake "Cafe Mari", the epicenter of the Myeong-dong anti-'redevelopment' resistance movement!!!
Here some impressions from last night (organized gangsters, hired by Daewoo Construction(MAFIA), their makeshift weapons and what they left over after their violent occupation of "Cafe Mari"...):
PS: Until last night at least 12 activists (supporting the anti-'redevelopment' struggle in Myeong-dong) were injured during clashes with the gangsters hired by Daewoo Construction MAFIA!!
Since y'day afternoon Daewoo's construction MAFIA is escalating the situation in Myeong-dong's "redevelopment" area by sending up to 200 organized thugs/gangsters to terrorize the Myeong-dong Resistance Collective and all of their supporters.
Activists related to the resistance in Myeong-dong published the following outcry in the late afternoon:
3rd of August, 2011
Myung_dong_Cafe Mari, City Center of Seoul.
Gangsters beat tenants 4:30 am -till now
11 Poor tenants were evicted by Daewoo Cooperations and IBK(Industrial Bank of Korea) on2nd of April.
Those big cooperations are planning 'Financial Street' on that area.
Since 4th of June, the tenants have been squatting a place called cafe Mari( a cafe owned by one of the tenants)
Many students and citizens and artists are banded together with the tenants.
Since 4th of June gangsters tried to beat people or destroyed the building but it wasn't easy because many people back up for the tenants.
But today IBK and Daewoo hired 200 gangsters to beat people.
They destroyed Mari cafe and sitting in the cafe since 4:30 am.
We reported to police but they didn't come.
This is a reality of South Korea.
And today in the early morning an eyewitness of the GANG TERROR noticed the following: "It's 7 am and I just got back from Mari in Myeongdong. Insane. Around 50 young hired gangsters going through and hitting protestors: women, the elderly, college students, whoever. One of them kicked a pregnant woman in the stomach tonight."
A lot of more pics, witnessing the GANG TERROR in Myeong-dong, organized by the DAEWOO construction MAFIA you can see here!
Related (Korean) reports:
☞ 소화기 뿌리며 각목 휘둘러…여성 2명 ‘호흡곤란’ (Hankyoreh, 8.04)
☞ "다 부쉈다. 새벽에 들이닥쳐 사람을 짐짝처럼 끌어냈다" (Pressian, 8.03)
☞ 명동3구역, 위험천만 재개발 철거 계속 (OMN, 8.03)
☞ 명동 3구역 기습 철거, 용역 철거민에게 폭력 행사 (VoP, 8.03)
Under the heading "Estimated 15,000 turn out for third Hope Bus Campaign" yesterday's Hankyoreh reported that "Police initiated a blockade on bridges and sidewalks and allowed conservative activists to attack and detain city busses carrying participants"...
Yesterday's Kyunghyang Shinmun reported likewise that "Some 300 members of far-right groups caused disturbance by occupying the Yeongdo Bridge. They pulled passengers off the buses and assaulted them. They swore at them, saying the 'forces trying to overthrow the nation should be arrested under current law' and 'the commies must be knocked down'..."
And some kind of evidence, published in Sunday's Nodong-ui Sori you'll find out (MUST SEE!!) here!!
Here just some impressions from last Thursday's first(?) SOLIDARITY CONCERT(to support the 3rd "Hope Bus" campaign) in CAFE MARI, the current 'epicenter' of the Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective(resisting the planned so-called 'redevelopment' project in downtown Seoul):
Some more pics you can see here!!
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