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Police provocation against migrant workers movement

Is this the beginning of crackdown policy?

Source  :  BASE21



by Christian / Base21 Media Activists
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Yesterday, Sunday August 3, ETU-MB (Equality Trade Union – Migrant’s Branch) wanted, how planned, demonstrate for migrant workers rights against EPS and the planned wave of mass deportations.

But before migrant workers and their supporters could start the demonstration, the cops made a bad surprise. More than hundred riot cops sealed off the whole area around Hunryewon Park downtown Seoul - all the entrances were also blocked by large units of riot cops. In the beginning nobody was allowed to enter the area, until he showed his/her passport. On the question from one reporter why they do so, a police officer answered that they search for illegal migrants. “And then?” another Journalist asked, “We’ll arrest them”, the officer answered.

ETU-MB staff asked if the cops didn’t know that the demonstration is a legal one (just days before ETU-MB got the permission from Seoul’s Metropolitan Police office), the cops answered that it doesn’t matter.

After half hour battle by voice ETU-MB got a victory and the cops in uniform left the scene, but replaced by many civil cops.

ETU-MB activist Shammar Thapa asks now, if it means that the massive crackdown will follow last Sunday’s police provocation. Kabir Uddin, active member of ETU-MB: “We have to see this as a pre-step of South Korean government’s crackdown policy. They mean it seriously and they really wants to threaten us.”

So, next steps of ETU-MB will be to create a plan for struggle against deportation policy, and very important, to find more active Korean supporters.









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