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South Korea: Protest crackdown fallout

Written byJohn Kennedy
Posted 12 May 2006 17:04 GMT

The Days in Daechuri blogger continues her ongoing bloggage of a the aftermath of a nation-wide protest last week during which 640 demonstrators detained and 16 arrested by the 15,000 riot police dispatched to Pyeongtaek, the farming village north of Seoul where the protests against American military base expansion took place.

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