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Village mayor’s lawsuit against the Prime Minister to demand 0.9 cent solatium

On Nov. 23, 2012, Kang Dong-Kyun, Gangjeong village mayor, filed a lawsuit against the Prime Minister, Kim Hwang-Sik, to demand 1 won solatium. 1 won is 0.9 cent by the US currency standard. Why? The below translation explains the purpose of the lawsuit that is hoped to be extended into citizens’ campaign to demand the Prime Minister to make an official apology, stop construction and cut all budgets on the Jeju naval base project.

Prof. Shin Yong-In, Professor of the Law School of the Jeju University and legal advisory to the Village Association mentions in relation to it:

“With the exposure by Jang Hana, National Assembly woman, on the technical verification committee meeting minutes and testimony by Prof. Kim Gil-Sou, member of the technical verification committee, in the Island Council inspection, it became completely clear that the Civilian-Military Complex Port for Tour Beauty is a fabrication. Therefore any justifications for construction drive and budget allocation have become disappeared [..] If that part becomes certainly AN ISSUE, our struggle will have tremendous power to bring construction to be stopped and whole budget to be cut [..] We should demand the Prime Minister to make an official apology for his deception to people and to stop construction (destruction). And the Presidential candidates should make public their positions on the Government that cheats people”

( Korean language source: Click here)

The Prime Minister should make an official apology to the people for his deceiving of them!

Stop construction (destruction)!

Cut all budgets on the Jeju naval base project!

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Mayor’s statement

: Filing a lawsuit against the Prime Minister, Kim Hwang-Sik, to demand 0.9 cent solatium

1. On Feb. 29, 2012, ‘the result and measure plan on the technical verification on the port-entry & exit by cruise,’ related to the Jeju Civilian-Military Complex Port for Tour Beauty, was discussed in the National Policy Control meeting that Kim Hwangsik, Prime Minister, presided over. As the result of meeting, the participants in the meeting told to confirm that it is possible by and large for 150,000 ton cruise to enter and exit port of the the Jeju Civilian-Military Complex Port for Tour Beauty, decided to drive the construction such as dredging in earnest, to complete construction by 2015 as planned.

2. Since then, the site of Gangjeong was transformed into a situation being alike a battle field where endless daily clashes occur between the navy that enforces construction (destruction) with the mobilization of police and peace activists that make efforts to stop it. For a year of 2012 alone, about 390 people have been arrested.

3. However, on Nov. 19, 2012, it was exposed through the inspection by the Administration and Self-Governing Committee of the Jeju Island Council that the report by the technical verification committee meeting supervised by the Office of Prime Minister was framed on the condition that the Government doctored the meeting result to avoid layout alteration and construction stop, which was through the testimony by Prof. Kim Gil-Sou, Korea Maritime University, who has joined the technical verification committee meeting. It has turned out that Government personnel [in the meetings of technical verification committee] raised [different opinion of] whether there is a firm need to change a harbor and bay design when as much as 150 billion won is more needed for the layout change for cruise to enter the port. It also turned out that the chairman of the technical verification committee meeting induced conclusion into the way that no construction stop is to be realized, he saying in person that it is the basic measure of the Government to conclude the verification matter, when various matters such as the talk that even the entry of military vessels are difficult, not to mention cruise ships, were raised in the meetings. It is also told that the Government changed the 2nd simulation result report by the Ministry of National defense as if it is the report that the technical verification committee has officially acknowledged even though it was a mere reference material. Prof. Kim Gil-Sou told in conclusion that he considers the base design was not for the civilian-military complex port from the beginning.

4. Otherwise, according to the movie that Park Won-Chul, Island Provincial Council member, obtained, it turned out that the simulation was done with the use of four not two tug boats, different from the Government assertion. The government lied from the beginning to the end. As a result, it has become clear that the Civilian-Military Complex Port that the Government and navy have made so much propaganda is merely a fraud play against their citizens.

5. In the old age of history, Confucius has told that three elements of security, economy and people’s trust are important in doing politics. He has also said if one should unavidably abandon one, the first should be security, second is economy, then the last one is people’s trust. The people’s trust to Government is the most important element for the Republic of Korea to exist. The Government cannot exist if it is not be trusted by people. Still the Government has thoroughly betrayed people as if it is the Jeju civilian-military complex port while it is in fact Jeju naval base. How can you trust the Government that betrays people. It should be an example that the Government who betrays its people is thoroughly punished so that Government cannot betray its people again.

6. Since the decision by the National Policy Control meeting supervised by Kim Hwang Sik, Prime Minister, is based on the result of the inducement and manipulation of the result from the technical verification by the technical verification committee, Kim Hwang-Sik, the Prime Minister cannot avoid his responsibility for his intention or fault on it.

7. Since I have been forced to take speechless mental suffering due to the decision of construction drive by the intention or fault like above, Kim Hwang-Sik, Prime Minister, is responsible for the compensation of solatium for my mental suffering.

8. Now I became to make decision to demand solatium to Kim Hwang-Sik, Prime Minister, on my mental suffering. Even though I long to demand hundreds millions of solatium to him, as I, upon the naval base construction, became to have more than 150,000,000 won debt since I have had no time to spare to care for my household, my health has become worse, physically, too, and I suffer for insomnia, I made decision to demand only 0.9 cent to him in the hope that all the citizens join this lawsuit for solatium, and in symbolic sense as well.

9. I demand Kim Hwang-Sik, Prime Minister officially apologize to deceive people even now and cancell the decision on the resumption of construction, based on the falsified technical verification report. If Kim Hwang-Sik, Prime Minister neglect my demand and continuously ridicule citizens, I will extend my lawsuit to demad 0.9 cent solatium into all citizens’ movement.

Nov. 23, 2012

Kang Dong-Kyun, Mayor of the Gangjeong village, as the starting runner for the lawsuit to demand 0.9 cent solatium

(Korean language source: Click here)

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See also the Jeju Weekly, regrading the decision by the Office of Prime Minister on Feb. 29, 2012 and blast of the Gureombi Rock on March 7, 2012.

http://www.jejuweekly.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=2444

Seoul plans 1.7 trillion won investment in Gangjeong

Naval base contractor gets police go-ahead for explosives use

Friday, March 09, 2012, 09:21:06

See also here on the villagers’ refusal to accept the proposal by the Office of Prime Minister

http://savejejunow.org/you-cannot-buy-us-with-money/
“You cannot buy us with money!” Villagers dissipated the Prime Minister Office presentation again.

Oct. 26, 2012

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People’s 24 hour protest and completion of the 3rd caisson

Meanwhile, people’s 24 hour protest to stop construction vehicles went on. The night time entry/exit of cement mixer trucks resumed on Nov. 19 after 10 days ‘ absence. The 24 hour mobilization of police and people’s 24 hour protest resumed again, too. Despite the weekend break, the whole scene will restart on Monday, Nov. 26, again.

Carrying stoneWoo Ki — Photo by Lee Woo Ki/ People carry stones over night to stop the night time entry/exit of trucks . For more photos on night time protest by Lee Woo Ki, see here.

Scene of violent oppression on protesters in the night of Nov. 20.

Video by Yange Gon (Source: Click here)

Scene of the caisson production area on the Gureombi Rock, Gangjeong village , around 7am, Nov. 24, 2012, Saturday

Video by Navi (Source: click here)

The 3rd 3,300 ton caisson has been recently completed and is in the condition of being dried at the cost of human rights violation and environmental destruction during 24 hour construction that started on Oct. 25.

“You cannot buy us with money!” Villagers dissipated the Prime Minister Office presentation again.

On Oct. 25, 2012, while many peacekeepers watching the naval base project gates from the construction trucks from the early morning, about 40 people including many village elders led by Mr. Go Gwon-Il, Chairman of the Villagers’ Committee to Stop the Naval Base and Mr. Cho Kyung-Chul, Vice-mayor of the village, dissipated the presentation by the Government (supervised under the Prime Minister Office) on the local development plan in relation to the naval base project. The people’s anger and protest filled the presentation hall where the navy has barely mobilized small sum of pro-base villagers. The Prime Minister Office, not being able to even start the event, announced the end of event in 15 minutes.

Photo by Cho Sung-Bong, See more of his photos on the day, here

The presentation collectively joined by 8 ministries and navy was to be unilaterally held in the 2^nd Seogwipo City Hall at 2pm. The 8 ministries beside the Prime Minister Office are: Ministry of Administration and Security, Ministry of the National Defense (navy headquarter, joined by Jung In-Yang, Chief of the Jeju naval base project committee), Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Ministry of Land, Transportation and Maritime Affairs, and Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. The presentation was to introduce on the overall plan on the Civilian-Military Complex for Tour Beauty and each ministry’s 2013 project plan.

However, Chairman Go strongly protested to the Prime Minister Office, saying, “Currently the enforcement of the presentation is to totally ignore the Gangjeong villagers. The government has a mean intention to cover the matters of the naval base project with MONEY.”

He also protested saying, “Does it make sense that the government having a presentation on the development plan WITHOUT the verification on the problems of the Jeju naval base project, exposed in the recent National Assembly inspection? If there should be any presentation, it should be the reasonable talk with the villagers who are the direct victims of the project.”

On Oct. 23, Kang Gi-Jung and Jang Hana (Democratic United party), two National Assembly members secondly made public of the technical verification committee meeting minutes on cruise supervised under the Prime Minister Office and exposed the two important things on it.

Oct 23 meeting minutes — Photo: Jeju Sori, Oct. 23, 2012/ The meeting minutes of the technical verification committee on cruise, doctored by the Government was exposed.

The Government explanation that it has been neural was a total lie as it was exposed that the chief of the technical committee, Jeon Joon-Sou, belongs to the think thank (국가미래연구원, Institute of National Future) of Park Geun-Hye, the Presidential runner of the ruling and conservative Saenuri Party, to the violation of the principal of the neutrality of the committee. Park is the daughter of the deceased ex-President Park Jung-Hee, military dictatorship during 60s~70s. Her repeated remarks that she wants to build the Jeju Island based on the model of Hawaii military base have been highly criticized by the domestic people and Hawaii peace activists. See here.) The 24 hour naval base construction and police watch that started on the very day of Oct. 25 very reminds Park Jung-Hee whose infamous 24 hour police watch against people during his resign has been seldom revived until recently.

In fact, it reads in the meeting minutes that Jeon Joon-Sou has said, “the most fearful thing is the construction to be stopped” (*so the data should be politically doctored) and “The construction should be started as the schedule.” It is also known that he is a political figure nominated as a promotion member for the committee of the local development of the Saenuri Party on Sept. 29, 2012.

2. It was also confirmed that the government has unilaterally and unreasonably pushed the project, forcing and ignoring the opinions by the technical committee members, some of whom even said that the entry of cruise entry/exit of port is IMPOSSIBLE with the current flawed base design. ( *which clarified the so called complex port is in fact, a military-only port)

The people have already dissipated all the unilateral presentations by the government (Prime Minister Office) & navy’s on the subject on Oct. 28, 2011, and cruise terminal on Dec. 6, 2011 and Island government & navy’s on the military housing project on May 29 and June 15, 2012 (* The latter was scandal at the time since the navy attempted to use a ‘recorder’ to enforce presentation when its plan was disturbed by the villagers’ protest. The navy announced later that it would enforce the housing project)

It is told that the personnel of the Prime Minister Office said:

‘In the National policy Control meeting supervised by the Prime Minister office on Feb. 29, 2012 (On the day, the Lee Myung-Bak government has issued its will to enforce the Jeju naval base project, along with the local development plan), 1 trillion and 77 billion won budget of 37 projects (supported by the national expenditure of 579 billion won for 10 years) of local development plan in relation to the Jeju civilian-military complex port for tour beauty has been decided centered on the Jeju Island government-demanding projects. It would be earnestly promoted from 2013.”

It also said, “Preferentially, 7.5 billion won ( 5 billion won of national expenditure, 2.5 billion won of local cost) is input to drive 5 projects including the establishment of the Gangjeong village community center this year. For 2013, 42.3 billion of national expenditure is complied for budget and submitted to the National Assembly as the Jeju Island government has demanded 52.9 billion won for 12 projects.”

With the dissipation of the presentation, Lim Joon-Kyu, the Jeju Policy director of the Prime Minister office said there would be no planned additional presentation but the naval base construction is to be enforced as planned.

Later, the Prime Minister office personnel made a talk meeting with the Jeju island government personnel. The Gangjeong villagers and peace keepers, watching the hall by 3pm, joined the struggle in front of construction gates, returning back to the village around 3:30pm.

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Reference

http://www.headlinejeju.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=163281

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