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Last Sunday(5.18) evening in downtown Seoul: About 100 activists - mainly students - were attacked and arrested by riot cops...

...while they just wanted to join the "People's Assembly"(*), organized under the theme of "We'll ask for political responsibility for the Sewol Ferry Disaster"...

* More detailed/updated reports(incl. pics &videos) you'll get here:
☞ Families of Sewol victims monitored by police (K. Times, 5.20)
☞ 경찰, 진도가는 세월호 유가족 미행하다 덜미... (팩트TV, 5.19)
☞ “경찰, 해산하려는 사람들까지 연행…‘세월호 추모’ 폭력진압” (VOP, 5.20)
☞ Police strong-arming more demonstrators in wake of Sewol (Hankyoreh, 5.20)

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Y'day evening in downtown Seoul: About 100 people - mainly students - were attacked and arrested by riot cops...

...while they just wanted to join the "People's Assembly"(*), organized under the theme of "We'll ask for political responsibility for the Sewol Ferry Disaster"...

* More detailed reports(incl. pics &videos) you'll get here:
☞ 경찰, 이틀째 세월호 규탄 시민 100여명 무차별 연행 (참세상, 5.19)
☞ 세월호참사추모 청계촛불집회(1) (팩트tv, 5.18)

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Y'day afternoon until the late evening/early night: Around 50,000 people, incl. 6000 teachers/KTU activists...

...joined a candlelight vigil(related 'reports' in the S. Korean [bourgeois]media you can read here and here) at Cheonggye Plaza and urged for an immediate search of missing victims and a transparent and thorough investigation of Sewol ferry tragedy. After the candlelight vigil, they started a peaceful march towards Seoul City Hall, but they were blocked and attacked by the riot cops & at least 115 citizens were arrested...

Related reports in Korean, incl. pics and videos, you'll get here:
☞ 청계광장 5만여명 집결...“진상규명 위한 1천만 서명운동 나서달라” (VOP, 5.18)
☞ '3만 촛불' 한때 울음바다... "청와대로" 115명 연행 (OMN, 5.18)

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New York Times(5.11/p. 11) full-page advertisement(more reports you'll get here and here & finally here you can read a very disgusting "editorial")...

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That's the only English-language "report" in S. Korea about the Memorial Rally (for detailed Korean docus please check out "factTV") two days ago in Ansan...

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Yesterday afternoon until late in the evening: At least 15,000 citizens gathered in Ansan to join the Memorial Rally for the victims of the "Sewol" ferry disater(*)...

* Related reports(in Korean), incl. lots of touching pics, you'll get here:
☞ 안산 뒤덮은 1만 5천 촛불, 잊지 않겠다 다짐 모았다 (참세상, 5.11)
☞ 1만3000명 '눈물의 약속'... (OMN, 5.10)
☞ 안산 밝힌 2만여 촛불... (민중의소리, 5.10)

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