While today the people in S.K. remember the 90th anniversary of the establishment of its democracy movement, i.e. the "3.1 Movement for Independence (from the Japanese colonial rule) and Democracy", already yesterday - once again - the S.K. gov't demonstrated its understanding of "democracy"! (*)
Source of the pics: KCTU, OMN, TiN, VoP
* Yesterday afternoon, a short while after the "Nat'l Workers Rally" (approx. 30,000 KCTU members participated) in Seoul/Yeouido, the activists (approx. 10,000) who wanted to join the "6th Rally to Commemorate the Victims of the Yongsan Massacre" in downtown Seoul were attacked for the first time by large units of the riot cops.
Later, between the early evening and midnight, at least 10,000 riot cops were deployed in downtown Seoul to prevent any movement of the Yongsan-demo.
And several violent clashes beween them and thousands of demonstrators took place near Namdaemun, in Myeong-dong, on Taepyeong-no etc... (well, finally the cops failed to prevent street protests!!).
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