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Just yesterday I found following article by Voice of People(민중의 소리) about the police and military aggression against the village of Daechuri in the beginning of last month.
Police and troops ravaged the land of peace
Government broked away conversation, and removed the Daechu elementary school by force
In contraposition to each other between Government and the residents around U.S. base extention in Pyeongtaek, a huge amount of policemen and troops Thursday forced the people and activists off the land.
A massive force including 13,000 riot police, 3,000 soldiers broke into the Daechu elementary school which is protected by only 700 residents and activists, and conducted suppression operations, almost a massacre.
The Ministry of national defense promised to solve the problem by conversation at first, but they suddenly broked away the talk one-sidedly on Wednesday and declared the forcible expropriation.
They are severely criticized by deciding to put the troops in.
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| △13,000 riot police broke into the Daechu elementary school. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People |
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| △Soldiers suppress the people by force. ⓒJung Taek-Yong, the Voice of People |
The 'operation' started just at the same time with the sunrise in the early morning while the soldiers set barbed-wire fence in the field of the U.S. military base to be.
The riot police held the elementary school completly as of 10 a.m. and assaulted the people and activists at random. Terrible bloodshedding could be seen everywhere. Around 120 severely wounded people went to hospital, more than 500 were arrested.
Daechu elementary school is the headquqrters of resistance and the symbol of peace for the residents of Daechuri village. The people desperately resisted and cried heart-breakingly, but the police finally seized the two story building around at six in the evening.
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| △Terrible bloodshedding could be seen everywhere. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People |
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| △11 Catholic Priests including Father Moon Jung-Hyun were fighting on the roof of the school. ⓒKim Chul-Soo, the Voice of People |
11 Catholic Priests including Father Moon Jung-Hyun were fighting on the roof of the school until then. After all of them came down on condition that all the arrested people are released, the police thoroughly demolished the school building immediately.
The expansion of Camp Humphreys is part of an agreement that was struck between Seoul and Washington in 2004. The camp is to accommodate both the command headquarters in Yongsan, Seoul, and infantry units stationed north of Kyongki Province.
Repositioning U.S. bases south of the Han River is significant for the two allies. Washington has been seeking to give its forces greater ``strategic flexibility'' under its global troop realignment scheme, while Seoul wants to take over more frontline security missions against North Korea from the U.S. military.
The base expansion work is scheduled to begin in October after a master plan for the construction of the consolidated U.S. base is drawn up in September.
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| △Daechu elementary school, the dream of the residents was thoroughly demolished. ⓒ the Voice of People |
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2006-05-04 ⓒThe Voiceofpeople |
http://www.vop.co.kr/english/news_view_eng.html?serial=42589
Current developments in the same case: Hunger strike in the near of Cheongwadae("Blue House", the S.K. presidential residence). But the text you can only read in Korean..
| 문정현 신부 청와대 앞 단식 "올 데 까지 왔다" |
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구속자 석방, 미군기지이전 재협상 촉구
Here you can read about some of the latest developments in English: http://www.antigizi.or.kr/zboard/zboard.php?id=english_news http://saveptfarmers.org/blog/
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Just our future??
