KOREA: Autonomous village attacked

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On March 6 South Korean riot police launched an attack on the autonomous village of Daechuri, which along with the nearby community of Doduri has for over four years been resisting the siezure of local homes and fields for the expansion of the US Army base Camp Humphreys. Rice farmers, elderly residents and peace activists are barricaded inside a school, resisting attacks by South Korea's elite military police force. Some protesters have been arrested and beaten and those inside the school are suffering exhaustion and lack of supplies. There is widespread opposition in South Korea to the expansion of the base, which has been associated with environmental destruction, violent crimes by US troops stationed at the base, increases in prostitution and human trafficking, For more information or to offer your support to the protesters, visit <http://saveptfarmer.revolt.org/action>.

From Green Left Weekly, March 15, 2006.
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