Hello.
I am not a professional reporter but I would like to report what is happening over the weekend in the Republic of Korea.
It seems that Korean police have been arresting peaceful protesters by forcing and trapping them in to a corner just like an operation.
There have been weekend street rallies to protest the government’s poor handling of the sinking of a ferry off the southeast coast of South Korea last April, 16.
Yesterday, nearly 50,000 citizens gathered at the center of Seoul and showed condolences to the loses of lives, and requested the government to get things done; corruption, incompetent government officials, many doubts and suspicion related to this issue.
Yesterday, around 120 citizens were marching down the street, but suddenly they were forced to walk a motoring road rather than sidewalk. They were isolated and finally arrested by police. Some plain clothes policeman were in the crowd. That is what citizens are talking about online.
Tonight, during protest, around 90 citizens were isolated and blocked by police. I watched it through online TV AFRICA.
It was filmed by an individual citizen with his smartphone.
In this video, a female kept saying, police block the road and threaten us to disperse, otherwise they will arrest us. However, there seems to way to go home, even citizens wanted to go home. Actually, the citizens were in the middle of dispercing.
So, some citizens watching online call it police operation as hare coursing or paint motion.
Citizens resisted by making a human chain, laying down the street. The police officer announced that it seems that citizens are refusing to go home, now let’s start arrest them one by one.
Then police started to suppress the crowd. It seems most of citizens were female. Even male police officers touched female protesters’ bodies during arrest, and it was shocking since female police officers are supposed to touch females.
Today of 1980 is when the military army of Korea killed thousands of people, who demanded democracy and fair election in Gwangju. The former president, Chun Doo-whan massacred so many citizens in Gwangju. After that, May 18 is designated as Gwangju Democratization Movement. The protesters said that today is the democratization movement day of Korea. Police Shame on you.
The first video is during the Stay-in-Place Protest or Keep-Still Protest, a silent protest, the police blocked the crowed saying that the rally was not approved in advance. Citizens asked to march down to the Blue House in silence, however, had no choice but to sit on the ground by stopped the police, on March 18, 2014.
The second video is about a rally starting from Sinchon. When the citizens arrived in Ganghawmoon, at the center of Seoul, suddenly the police blocked them by mentioning marching down is illegal according to the traffic laws. Citizens said that they wanted to march down on the sidewalk rather than roads for cars, however, the police arrested them all.
One man was wating for a bus to go home, but unfortunately arrested becase he accidently was close to the protesters. Even high school students were arrested and then were able to go home later.
Now it is said that several lawyers from the Lawyers for Democratic Society are ready for helping those protesters arrested.
Currently major news outlets are controlled by the government. Therfore, if citizens want to see the facts and true, they have no choice but to turn on alternative news outlets. There is a big gap between who only watch major news outlets and those who not.
One high-level manger,Kim Si-koen, of the Korean Broadcasting System, KBS, revealed that the station has been controlled by the CEO and the government. Days ago, he pushed himself into trouble by saying inappropriate words: the sinking of Sewol is not really a big accident since so many lives are lost due to car accidents every year. Kim said the the CEO asked him to resign, otherwise the CEO can not hold the position. The CEO said that it is an intention of President Park, while crying.
Even some reporters of KBS publicly apologized to the public for not reporting the true but all the news wanted by the government.
Now, 00:58 a.m. May 19, 2014, several citizes are confronted with polce. It seems so dangerous, the crowd is isolated in Seoul. Could you clik on?