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Last night in Busan: Thousands of riot cops - once again - used, as Busan Metropolitan Police Agency "promissed" few days before, massive force to crush the (5th) "Hope Bus" protests...

Today's (bourgeois) Korea Times 'reported' the following: "During an operation to disperse thousands of participants of a rally in Busan in support of dismissed shipbuilding workers, police apprehended 59 protestors, Sunday.

About 4,000 labor activists, civic group members and citizens gathered in the country’s largest port city to join the fifth round of the “Hope Bus” campaign to oppose massive layoffs by Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (HHIC).

Police fired water cannons on the crowds as they attempted to march toward the company’s Yeongdo shipyard on Saturday night. When the march was blocked, protestors moved to BIFF Sqaure in Nampo-dong and continued the rally by holding various cultural events until Sunday morning..."

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☞ Police nab 59 'Hope Bus' protestors (Korea Times, 10.9)

☞ 5차 희망버스 경찰 물대포로 강제진압-① (video, 10.8)