KOREA
The Hankyore
By Ahn, Su-Chan, Jung, In-whan reporter, 09/17/2001
The Anti-war movement is spreading out in Korea, as the retaliation attack to Afghanistan by U.S. is getting imminent. Twenty-three civil and social organizations in Korea, including Democratic Laborer League, Democratic Labor Party had a press conference in front of H.K. Telecom Company at Kwang-Hwa Mun in Seoul on the 17th of September. They demanded the U.S. stop the war against Afghanistan and emphasized that military retaliation would regenerate evil circulation of violence. They expressed their deepest sympathy for the innocent American citizens killed by the last week terror in the U.S. However, they also said that, despite U.S. should acknowledge that this dreadful terror happened because of the conflict has caused by U.S. militarism and its interfering international policy that has produced and provoked many terrors all over the world. The police arrested nineteen leaders of those organizations at the press conference for violation of the law on the Assembly and Demonstration because the press conference held near by the U.S. Embassy. The anti-war movement is expanded on the Internet. Currently (afternoon 09/17/2001), 66.000 people over the world participate in the petition, call for Peace & Justice on the international Internet petitionsite, the petitionsite. |
