U.S. Move Is Spurring Evictions In S. Korea

March 20th, 2006 at 17:22 Björn Hallberg

Elderly South Korean farmers, in their 60s and 70s, are severely beaten by riot police for refusing to accept the expansion of a U.S. military base that would evict them from their homes and expropriate their land. Now they have bloody noses in addition to humiliation, homelessness and unsatisfactory compensation.

How about razing “Camp Humphreys” and “Yongsan Garrison” entirely and stop molesting the region, staining the land with filthy military installations as well as arrogant and violent Americans who have nothing but disdain for the culture and the people. The same Americans whose most prominent contribution to the local scenery is opulent and gated luxury as well as a booming prostitution business.
Real change of course remains unlikely as long as America has the governments of the region in their pocket and, in a catch 22 sense, the military force to back it up.

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