Photo by Headline Jeju, March 22, 2012/ People’s press conference on March 19 incident
Right after the villagers’ press conference on March 22, the victims of police hammer violence on March 19 had a press conference in front of Island government hall. The victims holding the signs with the photos of injuries on them strongly demanded the punishment of police personnel in charge of the accident and claimed an introduction of Special Prosecution System on the matters of the Jeju naval base. (# The Special Prosecution system was first initiated by people’s lawyer Shin Yong-In on Feb. 27, 2012)
Here are some excerpts from people’s statement :
‘The reckless police operation (of hammering down on the PVC pipes activists were putting over their arms to tie themselves one another, for the purpose of non-violently stopping the moving of the explosives to the Gureombi Rock ) was continued despite the crying of shocked women.
Because the diameter of each PVC pipe was narrow to no gap when the two hands by two people were held together inside, the shock of hammering was directly felt to activists while the broken fragments made wounds in the hands of activists. The hammering was continued despite the cry of activists who felt direct suffering.
During that unreasonable process, activists were injured small and big: the back of woman hand(s) was torn by broken PVC fragments with blood, being swollen while a man’s thumb was directly hit by hammer with a upper part of nail be torn and flesh peeled off.
Especially the riot police unit NO. 1300 [of the Seogwipo Police Station] that were in charge of arrest in the incident field pushed back even the news reporters and lawyers; folded arms of a citizen who were taking record of the situation based on the rule of the police duty on protection of human rights and even attempted to throw down him by hooking his foot for prompt arrest. Further they even made an arm of a man who protested against the police attempt to arrest the citizens outside of barricade broken by pushing him-he is now waiting for operation while his swollen arms to be soothed down. We are shocked by policemen’ such wielding merciless violence to help the illegal business (* Jeju naval base project) of Samsung and Daelim.’
Video by Dungree on new conference (Source)
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Reference
Whole statement
http://www.headlinejeju.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=145681
“‘화약운송 저지 인간띠 ‘망치질 체포’ 책임자 엄벌하라”
인간띠 시위 참가자 연행과정 망치질 체포 규탄
2012.03.22 17:31:09
http://www.jejudomin.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=29772
“비명 지르며 울어도 망치질 계속됐다”
‘망치질 체포사건’ 피해자 기자회견…“경찰서장 퇴진하라”
2012.03.22 18:09:55
http://www.sisajeju.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=143146
‘망치질 체포’ 규탄 기자회견…서귀포경찰서장 퇴진 촉구
2012.03.22 14:53:53
