S. Korean police act to avoid violence with protesters at school - Page 4

Mr. Joe · #31 03-24-2006, 09:47 PM

Chucksnee-
Thanks for the update from the Hump! Actually we are pretty remote from there, and can't always believe the news, so we all enjoy hearing firsthand from someone at the FEBA! Two protests are not better than one! Maybe they will sort of cancel each other out!

I think if outsiders (Anti -American North Korean agitators or sympathizers) don't show up and intentionally stir the group into a mob, things may not get out of hand. Peaceful protesting is a valuable right. Destructive behavior is not, and will be halted.

(I used to fly in Army Hueys every week from Seoul up to the DMZ. A friend
who rode with us infrequently said,"It is like riding a Magic Carpet.")
I hope you enjoy flying as much as we did!

chucksnee · #32 03-24-2006, 10:07 PM

Flying is the ONLY reason i'm still in the Army!! 1700 flt hrs and counting.

I can only hope the protest is peaceful, but the bar owners and the shop owners have already said they are PO'd becasue the ville is of limits for more than 4 days, that = 's ALOT of money.

I just heard some sirens go off and head towards the front gate. Just hope it goes well..................

chucksnee · #33 04-08-2006, 06:39 PM

O.K. so here is a theroy for everyone to ponder.........After talking with some of our Korean native pilots who still have family over here. They say that the farming land is not owned by any one person it is all owned by the Korean government. Now these people may have farmed this land for the last 2- 300 years but in the begining the government gave it to them. Now they are taking it back and giving them other government land.

Discuss........

Mr. Joe · #34 04-08-2006, 07:33 PM

California, Texas, Arizona, New Mexico... and more were once owned by Mexico. Now they are taking it back!

Yeah, some farmers "owned" some land, others leased, some were squatters. etc. I hear much of it was never titled, so there is no telling who "owns" it.
Most all with a legitimate claim will get some payment, they say. But it is not just land, it is tradition and livelihood at stake. Hard to put a price on all that. The Korean Govt. will take the hit, and we will share it for just being here! The ungrateful generation that is alive today in this free country, because of the sacrifice of the last generation of American, British, Turkish, Swiss, Swede and other countries draftees and volunteers, gives us no credit. C'est la guerre! (FR.- "It is the War") (like -that's the way in war')

mike · #35 04-27-2006, 10:50 PM

There is an update to this story here.

I think it is pretty slick of the farmers to plan rice.

Quote:

South Korean authorities will move soon to oust activists and others who have refused to give up their homes on farmlands near Camp Humphreys, according to a defense ministry official.

The action, said Brig. Gen. Gyeong Jang-ho, would include an effort to clear resisters from their barricaded makeshift headquarters inside the Daechu-ri Elementary School and elsewhere on the contested lands. And it would aim to halt farmers from any further rice planting, which is seen as a potential obstacle to the government’s control of the land.

Gyeong, chief of the U.S. Affairs division in South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense, made the statements while briefing reporters Tuesday in Seoul.

Activists, farmers and other local residents have been embroiled since last year in a standoff with the South Korean government. The government wants to evict them so the land can be used for the eventual expansion of Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek. The post is slated to triple in size by 2008 and become the U.S. military’s chief installation on the peninsula, under an agreement between South Korea and the United States.

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