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KOREA TIMES wrote today:
Amnesty International Vows to Protect Conscientious Objectors
By Chung Ah-young
An international human rights group has vowed to wage a worldwide campaign for conscientious objectors, calling on the Korean government to introduce an alternative to military service.
The Korean branch of Amnesty International (AI) said Friday that if two Korean men who were declared ``conscientious objectors’’ and rejected military conscription are imprisoned, it will take the case to the World Wide Appeals, which is designed to mobilize international support for them.
Oh Jung-rok, 27, and Koh Dong-ju, 26, known as pacifists, refused to be conscripted for military service on Oct. 4 and Oct. 11, respectively, when they received the notices.
AI said that if the two are imprisoned, it will designate them as conscientious prisoners and launch a worldwide campaign for them after reviewing their activities as pacifists.
Kim Myeong-sik, a campaign coordinator at AI’s Korean branch, said that it will resort to the World Wide Appeals, in which its members from other countries will send thousands of letters and appeals to the Korean government.
``However, conscientious objectors are supposed to be proven non-violent and refuse military conscription due to their beliefs or faith to receive international support under our organization,’’ he told The Korea Times.
``We will protect conscientious objectors according to the right to freedom of thought, religion and conscience, along with international campaigns,’’ he said.
Kim said that AI’s Korean branch might invoke urgent actions if any serious violations on the basic rights of conscientious objectors are reported.
``Alternative service can be a good replacement to military service allowing those who refused their military obligation due to their faith to abide by the duties without sacrificing their rights,’’ he said.
Under AI’s campaign for conscientious objectors, Lim Tae-hun, who served one year and four months in prison, was released in June after rejecting his military obligation.
Lim received about 3,000 letters from around the world under AI’s campaign.
A citizen of one country cannot take part in their own country’s appeal campaigns of AI in that country.
However, an official of the Free Citizen’s Alliance of Korea said that the attempt to adopt an alternative service system might be abused by draft dodgers, threatening national security.
Since 1939, the country has imprisoned 10,000 conscientious objectors, the largest number of conscientious objectors with 439 in prison as of June 15, 2004.
The number of conscientious objectors has been on the rise over the past few years from 683 in 2000 to 804 in 2001 and 734 in 2002, despite growing pressure from the international community on Korea to recognize and uphold the right to freedom of thought, religion and conscience.
PS.:
"Since 1939..."??
THE 10.22 GRAND KIM JONG-IL LIKENESS CONTEST
Who is feeling, thinking and talking (...and drinking) like the Beloved Leader?
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yeah. i'll give a real translation.this song is about 4 korean female cashers at E-mart who got fired just because they formed a labor union and refused to disconnect themsleves from the union.
The 'sisters' at E-mart made labor union late 2004 in order to improve their working conditions which had been so poor that they didn't have enough time to eat (20 minutes for lunch) and stuff.
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however, as soon as the union launched, the great Samsung capitalists started clamping down on every union member by hiring thugs in the name of strengthening security and did unimaginable things to the union workers.The Samsung capitalists took every measures to make sure the union be disbanded right away.
As a result of the terrible threats, appeasement and psychological tortures, most of the workers left the union and only 4 of them stayed with the union until the end.
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The 4 women workers were fired in the early 2005, and still now they are fighting for their reinstatement.It has been more than 300 days since their fight started.
Everyone knows that it's wrong to fire a worker because she or he is in union.
But Samsunf capitalists don't care about labor law or labor rights.
I made this song called 'the mountain that sisters overcome' to fight with the sisters against the conglomerate and smash capitalism.
on Oct 29, there'll be a huge anti-Samsung action.
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on that day, i will sing this song with every fired workers. Octover 29 is the anti-Samsunf action day. so maybe you can organize an action over there for solidarity???부가 정보
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for more information of the action you can go to http://kinsamsung.nodong.net부가 정보
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dear dongji, THANX A LOT!!here in berlin one branch of samsung will close its factory coming december and will fire about 800 workers... and the workers are fighting against this. on coming monday i will try to get in contact with them. i will let you know as soon as possible about the result. perhaps they can write a solidarity message for the anti samsung festival... i just will try my best..
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great! danke shon!!!부가 정보
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what's "danke shon"? 하하...today i got a e-mail from labornet. de and they want to contact me soon. and they wanna send a soli message to me...
uhuu~ i wanna be - at least - next weekend in seoul...
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yeah, i want you to be here with us, too!i miss you.
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once again.. THANX dongji... I miss you all too...i will try to get the soli message from the german samsung branch untill at least early sat. morning KST...
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