PSPD in English Socio-Economic
2009-01-29
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Yongsan tragedy based by Police Crackdown
PSPD with Joint Korea NGOs submited the Urgent-Appealon “Yongsan Tragedy” to the Special Procedures, which is a very serious case of Human rights violation in South Korea caused by police crackdown on 25 Janunary.
Urgent Appeal
on “Yongsan tragedy” based by Police Crackdown
on “Yongsan tragedy” based by Police Crackdown
Background
– Korean Government violated People’s Right to Housing and Right to Life by resorting to violence in the course of dispersing the demolition protesters from a building.
– The extent to which the Government violated People’s Social Rights is both serious and alarming, causing the tragic deaths in this time.
– The Recommendation of the forced eviction by the committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has pointed out serious infringements of human rights in Korea, but the actual social conditions haven’t yet improved, and the indiscriminate redevelopment process still goes on.
Summary
-In the winter of 2008, there happened a tragic accident on the rooftop of an office building in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, also planned to be demolished according to the urban redevelopment project, leaving 5 protesters and a policeman dead, and a number of people injured. The disaster broke out in the course of evacuating the building. The protesters were mostly those who were deprived of means of living and forced to be thrown out of their living places, whom the government sent out Police commandos to put down. It was even within 24 hours after the initial staging of the protest.
– The Government is thought to be interested only in evacuating the redevelopment area, but not in furnishing with them proper compensation with which they can manage their new lives to continue, including opening new shops, in other places
– There were only 50 protesters on the rooftop, but in order to disperse them, the Government mustered 1600 of policemen, riot teams and even the Police commandos, arranged 4 water cannon vehicles around the building, and had 23 commandos land on the roof, with the help of a container.
– It was just 3 and a half hours after their initial occupation of the building that Yongsan Ward Office and the Police decided on compulsory and violent winding-up of them.
– Korean Government violated People’s Right to Housing and Right to Life by resorting to violence in the course of dispersing the demolition protesters from a building.
– The extent to which the Government violated People’s Social Rights is both serious and alarming, causing the tragic deaths in this time.
– The Recommendation of the forced eviction by the committee of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has pointed out serious infringements of human rights in Korea, but the actual social conditions haven’t yet improved, and the indiscriminate redevelopment process still goes on.
Summary
-In the winter of 2008, there happened a tragic accident on the rooftop of an office building in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, also planned to be demolished according to the urban redevelopment project, leaving 5 protesters and a policeman dead, and a number of people injured. The disaster broke out in the course of evacuating the building. The protesters were mostly those who were deprived of means of living and forced to be thrown out of their living places, whom the government sent out Police commandos to put down. It was even within 24 hours after the initial staging of the protest.
– The Government is thought to be interested only in evacuating the redevelopment area, but not in furnishing with them proper compensation with which they can manage their new lives to continue, including opening new shops, in other places
– There were only 50 protesters on the rooftop, but in order to disperse them, the Government mustered 1600 of policemen, riot teams and even the Police commandos, arranged 4 water cannon vehicles around the building, and had 23 commandos land on the roof, with the help of a container.
– It was just 3 and a half hours after their initial occupation of the building that Yongsan Ward Office and the Police decided on compulsory and violent winding-up of them.
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