Worst One Year It was one year since the current chief executive illegally took power in south Korea. South Koreans conducted large-scale anti-regime struggles across south Korea on February 25 defining the last one year as a wretched and despairing year fraught with pains and ordeals. Some 200,000 people from all walks of life participated in the struggles held in various parts including Seoul, Daejeon, Ulsan, Busan, North and South Gyeongsang Provinces, North and South Jeolla Provinces and Jeju Islet. In Seoul, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions and the Peoples Committee for Strike sponsored a peoples meeting for strike with over 40,000 workers and citizens attended. The participants chanted such slogans as “We cannot live like now!” upholding placards reading “Let’s achieve peoples vital rights”, “Stop the repression of trade unions” and “We oppose the privatization of the railway sector”. They condemned in their speeches that one year of the current regime was a year of repealing commitments, ruining the peoples living and destroying democracy, driving most of the people into indigence. It is the reality that if they resist the wrong policies, they should be directly subject to suppression, they noted censuring that democracy is violated through the police’s ruthless repression of the Confederation of Trade Unions and the conviction to the plotted rebellion case of an assemblyman from an opposition party, etc. Then a resolution was read out. It held that the people would not stop the struggle against the illegal fraudulent election by the power organs and the moves to destroy democracy. Various circles would stage the strong struggle in solidarity in the face of repression, the resolution noted and stressed that if the regime does not accept the peoples demands, they would more loudly call for the resignation of the chief executive. After the meeting the participants launched a demo in the street confronting the police’s suppression and check. The participants who gathered again at the city hall plaza held a candlelit rally. Meanwhile, ten civic organizations including the Citizens’ Coalition for Economic Justice, the People’s Solidarity of Participatory Democracy and the Confederation of Women’s Organizations held a press conference in Seoul. They criticized that for the last one year freedom of expression and the rights to rally and demonstration were trampled down by the regime and democracy was attacked by the power bodies’ election intervention, saying they cannot but bitterly condemn the current chief executive for repealing or postponing many promises she made with the people.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 21:57:38 +0000
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