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Last Sunday(9.25) Yonhap News Agency reported the following: A farmer who was hit by a police water cannon during a protest last fall died Sunday. Baek Nam-gi, 69, had been in coma since the water cannon knocked him down during the demonstration on Nov. 14 last year. Seoul National University Hospital pronounced Baek dead of acute renal failure at 2:15 p.m. Baek's family members and civic activists were by his side...
Yesterday's Korea Times reported that Four international organizations(International Federation for Human Rights, European Trade Union Confederation, International Trade Union Confederation and Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD) advocating human and labour rights jointly issued a statement, Wednesday, condemning Korea's prosecution and police for pushing for an autopsy of a deceased farmer, who died after being knocked down by a police water cannon during a rally last November. The statement comes after police re-applied for a warrant to conduct the autopsy on Baek Nam-ki, Monday night, after the Seoul Central District Court refused its first request early that day. The first request was filed on Sunday night after Baek, 69, died earlier in the afternoon following 10 months in a coma after being hit by the water cannon...(here you can read the complete Korea Times report)
Y'day(9.28) evening(KST): At around 8:10 pm, Seoul Central District Court granted the search, seizure, and examination warrant for Baek’s autopsy after a second request two days earlier by prosecutors...(source: Hankyoreh, 9.29)
Today(9.29): Hundreds of supporters including politicians, religious leaders, lawyers, civic activists, labor union members, farmers and students held a press conference...
...in front of the Sejong Center for Performing Arts in Gwanghwamun, downtown Seoul, condemning authorities' move to carry out the autopsy. They called for the government to apologize for Baek's death, for an independent counsel to conduct investigations into his death and punish those accountable and put an end to state violence and the use of water cannons...
Meanwhile, a UN rights expert in a news release called for local authorities to respect the will of the family to not have an autopsy conducted on Baek's body. "I call for a full and independent investigation into the police's use of water cannons during the rally that unambiguously led to Mr. Baek's death according to video footage available," Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai said in a news release issued by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. "The perpetrators should be held accountable and the family of Mr. Baek receive appropriate compensation. In addition, adequate measures must be taken to prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future," he said...(source: K. Times, 9.29)
Two days ago(9.26) Korean Health and Medical Workers Union(KHMWU) held a press conference in Seoul...
...to declare a strike for September 28. According to the KHMU statement 15,000 union members will join the strike to stop performance based pay system & privatization of healthcare. also demand legislation of the Healthcare Human Resources Support Act...
Y'day in the S. Korean capital: At least 400 KHMWU members at Seoul Nat'l University Hospital went on strike. Their main demands: "No performance based pay system & stop the privatization of healthcare system!" They plan to continue the strike until their demands are met...
Today in the morning(KST): Around 10,000 members of the Korean Health and Medical Workers' Union(KHMU) went on strike...
...to protest the performance-based pay system, leaving only the minimum number of workers required to provide services. "We must stop the introduction of the merit pay system, which puts workers in competition to earn money from ill patients," union leaders said one day earlier at a press conference at the Seoul Nat'l Univerity Hospital.
Since it is tricky to quantify performance at hospitals, workers say they will be measured based on medical fees they generate, which will motivate them to make patients undergo unnecessary tests and treatments. They could also charge fees for services which were originally free, or buy low quality medical supplies in order to reduce costs, which will negatively affect patients. "Performance-based pay will make institutions, which exist for the public, operate according to capitalism. This will result in squeezing money out of patients or only treating patients who need expensive treatments ― hospitals will forget their duty and become commercialized," KHMU activists said...(source: Hankook Ilbo, 9.27/related reports in Korean you'll get on LabourStart)
1.) MUST READ: A “worker for life and peace” breathes his last breath(Hankyoreh, 9.26)
2.) LATEST NEWS: Police raided a hospital in Seoul on Monday as part of their investigation into a farmer who died there earlier this week after he was hit by a police water cannon during a protest last year. The Seoul Jongno Police Station said it raided Seoul National University Hospital to obtain medical records on Baek Nam-gi, 69, who was pronounced dead of acute renal failure Sunday...(source: Korea Times, 9.26/here you'll get an more detailed news report))
A short while later: The police dispatched over 3,600 officers from 45 units to Seoul National University Hospital...
...where more than thousand citizens held a candlelight vigil...
...in front of the funeral home at 7 p.m. They shouted, "I am Baek Nam-gi," and "Killer police, go away."(source: Kyunghyang Shinmun)
3.) While today's (conservative)daily Dong-A Ilbo published the following: Farmer Baek Nam-ki passed away on Sunday after falling to the ground by high-powered police water cannons at the first general rally at Gwanghwamun Square in Nov. 14 last year. He was taken to Seoul National University Hospital after the accident and underwent a brain surgery but remained unconscious and hospitalized in the intensive care unit for 317 days. It was a sad loss of life after a violent protest that paralyzed central Seoul and brutal crackdown by the police...(here you can read the full text of the editorial) ...the other two conservative(resp. bourgeois-reactionary)mass-circulation newspapers JoongAng Ilbo and Chosun Ilbo reported... NOTHING(regarding Baek Nam-gi's death)!!!
4.) Nat'l workers' solidarity...
Today's Yonhap News Agency reported the following: A farmer who was hit by a police water cannon during a protest last fall died Sunday. Baek Nam-gi, 69, had been in coma since the water cannon knocked him down during the demonstration on Nov. 14 last year. Seoul National University Hospital pronounced Baek dead of acute renal failure at 2:15 p.m. Baek's family members and civic activists were by his side...(here you'll get an more detailed report)
Later, in the early evening(KST) KCTU published the following: Sadly, Mr. Baek Nam-gi, passed away today at the age of 69. He has been lying in a hospital for 317 days hanging between life and death as a result of a murderous water cannon used by the police at the Nov 14 People’s Mass Mobilization last year. While KCTU president Han, Sang-gyun was senteced with 5 years’ imprisonment at the criminal court simply because KCTU was one of the host organisations of the Mobilization, none of the police who shot deadly water cannon has been held accountable or even made a word of apology. The cause of his death is clear: Murderous Water Cannon...
However, the police is requesting a warrant of autopsy insisting that it is needed to reveal the cause of his death. In Korean history there have been a lot of cases the police stole the body of those who died due to the police violence to hide or manipulate the case. KCTU members and citizens are gathering to hold a candle light vigil and now...
...the police have blocked all the entrances of the hospital.
US Air Force Gen. John E. Hyten...
...nominated for the job of the US strategic commander(Stratcom), said two days ago during a confirmation hearing at the Senate Armed Services Committee, “From my military perspective, the THAAD missile battery does not change the strategic deterrence equation because … it doesn’t impact the ability of the strategic force to effectively operate.”(source: JoongAng Ilbo, 9.22)
So, possibly, the THAAD deployment in S. Korea is... USELESS(?)!!
Meanwhile today's Global Times reported that the "South Korean parliamentary speaker asked the government to discuss whether to deploy a US missile shield in its soil as it is a state affair of very importance. National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun told a press conference that such an issue as the deployment of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) should be discussed between the government and the parliament as it is a very important state affair, according to local media reports..."
Last but not least: Y'day evening/night the 71st anti-THAAD protest demo/rally took place in Seongju and, once again, hundreds of residents participated...
Yesterday's KCNA published the following(bullshit): We will emerge victorious in this anti-disaster battle under the guidance of supreme leader Kim Jong Un. All the inhabitants in flood-hit Musan County are now filled with deep yearning for him who works heart and soul to stabilize their life...
Exactly! As you can see here: "Supreme leader" Kim Jong Un "works heart and soul to stabilize their life"...
Realizing again that we can not live even a moment without his care, we will surely achieve the miraculous victory of converting misfortune...
...into favorable...
...conditions(KCNA, 9.20).
PS. The earth without the DPRK can never exist! (source: Korean Friendship Association headquartered in Spain via KCNA, 9.19)
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