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-> Today in the morning(CET) I got the following info by e-mail:
Starting today, Gangjeong is in an emergency situation. Nearly 700 police have arrived from the mainland in Gangjeong village to monitor the blasting of Gureombi, the volcanic rock coastline, and the dredging of the seafloor. Not only will the marine life, including endangered crabs and coral reefs, be swept away, the blast has already impacted the fresh water springs that the majority of the island is dependent upon.
Though our numbers are small in the village, we will do our best to fight to stop the blast of Gureombi. It is still uncertain whether the Seogwipo Police will allow the Navy to blast Gureombi on Monday, when the Governor of Jeju Island is supposed to make his decision...
-> And only a short while later I'd to learn (via facebook "No Naval Base on Jeju!") the following: "BLAST PERMITTED! GUN POWDER IS TOLD TO BE CARRIED IN AN HOUR! The village siren is ringing. The police permitted the blast!"
-> 24 hours earlier(resp. y'day) the S. Korean media reported that Jeju's governor called for suspension of naval base construction...
-> On the same day the Asian Human Right Commission issued, regarding the recent developments on Jeju Island, a statement titled "SOUTH KOREA: Ignoring rule of law sign of dictatorship"...
If you have not already done so, please send a letter asap to the following officials(*) to STOP THE BLAST OF GUREOMBI ROCKS! STOP THE NAVAL BASE CONSTRUCTION!
SAMPLE LETTER:
To your Excellency, the President of the Republic of Korea, and to other heads of state, departments and consulates:
People from all over the world are shocked and disturbed that the government of South Korea would consider building a navy base on Jeju Island. It is a moral crime to cover Jeju's fertile farmlands with concrete, and to destroy its rare, soft-coral reef. The Gangjeong villagers depend on their farms to live, and the planet depends on healthy reefs to live.
Jeju-do is sacred to all the people of the world, not only to the Korean people. Please do not allow Jeju Island to become militarized. If current tensions between China and the U.S. escalate in the South China Sea, if there is a naval base, the first target of attack by China will be Jeju Island. Please stop the militarization of Peace Island.
The South Korean government needs to listen to its people and not build a base to port US Navy Aegis missile destroyers and aircraft carriers. Please protect Peace Island and DO NOT BLAST THE GUREOMBI ROCKS! STOP CONSTRUCTION OF THE NAVY BASE!
Sincerely,
(your name here)
* Addressees:
Mr. Kim Kwan-Jin
Minister, Ministry of National Defense
No. 1, Yongsan-dong 3-ga
Yongsan-gu, Seoul # zip: 140-701
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Fax: +82 2 748 6895 / + 82-02-703-3109
E-mail: cyber@mnd.go.kr
http://www.mnd.go.kr/mndEng_2009/main/index.jsp
Mr. Lee Myung-Bak
President
1 Sejong-no, Jongno-gu
Seoul, 110-820
REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Fax: +82 2 770 4751
Email: foreign@president.go.kr or president@cwd.go.kr or president@president.go.kr
Latest news & reports:
1.) As of today, March 4, movie critic Prof. Yang Yoon-Mo hits his 26th day hunger strike. He has done more than 70 days’ hunger strike including 59 days’ prison fast last year, but being arrested again on Jan. 30 when he protested especially upon violation on human rights - seeing the policemen getting order from the contracted companies’ thugs and ignoring the safety of woman activists - he has started his fast since he was moved to the Jeju Prison on Feb. 6. He says that with the start of main destruction in the Gureombi rock coast, he would stop even water and bits of salt that he has depended on for fast.
2.) Last Wednesday, despite fierce protests by residents, environmentalists and a range of politicians, the Lee Myung-bak administration gave the go-ahead to the long-stalled plan to build the naval base on Jeju Island, insisting on its completion by 2015! (JoongAng Ilbo, 3.01)
3.) Urgent: Serous violation on human rights - Gangjeong is now under martial law-like (2.28)
The Jeju media reports that the Jeju Solidarity for Participatory Self-Government & Environmental Preservation (http://jejungo.net/main/ ) has made public that 329 people have been arrested in the Gangjeong village struggling against naval base from Jan.18, 2010 to Feb. 27, 2012.
According to an article of the Seogwipo Daily News on Feb. 28, 2012, which cited the organizations’ report, some of the illegal mass arrests under the arbitrary charges are as the below:
On Jan. 18, 2010, 53 people (* including 47 villagers) were arrested under the charge of violation on the law on rally & demonstration and obstruction on execution on government affairs, when they opposed against the navy’s preparing for a groundbreaking ceremony event in the area of naval base business committee building complex.
On Sept. 2, 2011, 35 people were arrested under the charge of obstruction of business etc. when the navy illegally enforced fence in the Joongduk Samgeori (three-way-intersection).
On Dec. 27, 2011, 34 people were arrested under the charge of violation on the law on rally and demonstration etc., when they blocked cement mixer truck in front of main naval base construction gate in order to stop ongoing construction (destruction) enforced by the government despite publicly proved out base layout errors. (*The National Assembly would cut tremendous 96% budget for naval base in 2012 at the end of December, 2011, acknowledging the errors in the base layout and improper procedure in the process of naval base drive.)
On Feb. 26, 2012, 20 people were arrested. It included 10 international peace activists and 6 Korean activists who joined the Jeju International Peace Conference (the 20th annual meeting of Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, as well) and stepped on the Gureombi rocky coast. They were all falsely charged of damage on properties (*simply for the reason of their grasping barbed wire razor to safely cross underneath it). Four people were also arrested in front of the Seogwipo Police station on the same night when people protested against the illegal arrest of 16 people in that morning. An international woman was even demanded by police women of showing her passport when she was out of toilet in the police station. International activists arrested were threatened with forceful finger prints. A navy named Cho Young-Rok tried to spy on the activists, masking him as a translator for an international activist taken away to the Seogwipo police station.
For reference, beside above, four villages have been arrested on Feb. 27 when the police units of special mobile force from the main land prevented people from putting kayaks on the sea. During the process of resistance against it, a village woman worrier, Kim Mi-Ryang , being pushed back by police, was fallen down over the concrete pavement, along with Benj, a French citizen, who swooned for a while. But the policemen ignored them and continued to push back crowd despite the risk of life threat to them. A policeman among them even pressured a neck of Kim with his foot in the police shoe. When her older brother tried to save her and find the very policeman, the police in group strangling his neck and forcefully folding back his arms, beat him to the bruise of all his body. Her younger brother was also arrested for same reason. Though the younger brother has not been greatly injured, he was very upset to see his sister being violently dealt with and Benj and villagers -being arrested or not- having been gotten small and big injuries during the protest process. (*The same police units began to block even people’s container stored of kayaks on Feb. 28, which is totally illegal)
Recently with the President Lee Myung-Bak’s public announcement to enforce the naval base project on Feb. 22, followed by the Prime Minister Office’s more detailed announcement on Feb. 27 to enforce the project, in which it clearly expressed its will to suppress on the opponents’ resistance, more intimidating violation on human rights are concerned about in coming days...
4.) Impressions from the "Solidarity Concert" to support the struggle against the Jeju Naval Base (Seoul, 3.02):
For more updated info please check out: No Naval Base on Jeju! (Facebook)
While the int'l "Occupy" movement is - more or less - in full retreat, some activists in Seoul are making another attempt to reanimate the movement...
And - consequently(^^) - they're planning to occupy tomorrow evening Seoul's City Hall Plaza by celebrating a "Seoul Occupyers Party"(*)!
Here's the schedule for the next two days:
Mar 1(Thu), 2012 @Seoul Plaza
- 6:00 pm Build Tent + Salad & Beer Party
- 8:00 pm Musical Performances; Hoegidong Danpyunsun etc.
- Free Salad, Cheap Beer(since when has S.K. "beer" ever been cheap?^^)
- Bring Your Own Food & Fork
Mar 2(Fri), 2012 @Seoul Plaza
- 2:00 pm Press Conference
* Hopefully it will be not just a RIOT COP PARTY!!(^^)
Unbef*ckinglievable!! The (bourgeois) Korea Times(KT) in solidarity with the struggle against the Jeju Naval Base?? Just check out its following piece of "agitprop"(^^):
Concert to raise funds for Gangjeong villagers
A benefit concert to highlight the Gangjeong villager’s position will be held at Club Freebird in Hongdae on March 2.
Titled “Rock & Resistance” the event will bring concerned citizens from Seoul and around the country together for a night of solidarity, learning, and live music.
The issue of concern is the government construction of a naval base in the Gangjeong Village on Jeju Island. Villagers and their supporters are steadfast in their opposition to the project.
Nine local bands have decided to donate their musical talent for one night of eclectic and electrifying music.
The concert will feature Jambinai, fresh off their award-winning performance at the EBS Hello Rookie Awards. They will be joined by Korean folk metal rockers Goguryeo Band as well as SmackSoft, Momguamaum, Reska, Cosmos Sound and Billy Carter.
The organizers are a small group of concerned global citizens.
The concert is from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m. and entry is a 10,000 won donation...
For more information, visit http://www.savejejuisland.org.
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/special/2012/02/371_105924.html
Latest news from the 'frontline'...
Feb. 27: Confrontation at Gangjeong port today's afternoon. . . Police blocked villagers and activists who were preparing kayaks to enter Gurombee rock. Two kayaks were blocked on the sea. . . Two villagers were wounded and 5 were arrested...
Police blocked kayaks all this afternoon, but two activists entered Gurombee rock through tough struggle. . . (Here you can see some more pics!)
Feb. 26: 10 international and 6 Korean activists were arrested today. . .
Seven Global Network members were also arrested including Bruce Gagnon, Mary Beth Sullivan, Dave Webb, Natasha Mayers and Dennis Apel. Some of them were moved to Dongbu police station... (Here you can watch a documentary!)
Feb. 24 ~26: The 20th annual meeting of the "Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space" is currently being held on the Jeju Island. Upon it, the "International Peace Conference" is held in the Jeju City and Gangjeong village from Feb. 24 to 26...
About 100~150 people from the various fields of Korea and abroad gathered into the Jeju "4.3 Peace Park" under the theme of ‘Gangjeong for the Life and Peace village, Jeju for the World Peace Island.”... (More info you'll get here!)
"No Naval Base on Jeju!" - Reconcilation committee members of Korea Buddhist Jogye
order are reading statement during the 'Int'll Peace Conference'...
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