A meeting to denounce the fascist suppression of students in south
Korea was held in Tokyo on September 29. The meeting, cosponsored
by more than 30 overseas democratic Korean organizations that have
branches in North America, Europe and Japan brought together
hundreds of Koreans living in Japan.
Those present strongly decried the suppression of the south
Korean Federation of University Student Councils (Hanchongryon) and
demanded the release of all youth and students who were recently
arrested for the so-called crime of supporting unification of the
county.
A solidarity address was delivered by delegates of
Hanchongryon. Kwak Tong Ui, chairperson of the Federation of south
Koreans in Japan for Democracy and Unification (Hanmongryon), and
chairperson of the Emergency Measure Committee of south Koreans in
Japan to Oppose the Suppression of Hanchongryon, said in his report
that the Kim Young-sam regime's frantic attacks on the participants
in the August 15 reunification festival is an example of fascist
arbitrariness and an unpardonable crime. All Korean compatriots at
home and abroad should more vigorously wage the struggle to
denounce and halt the "security-oriented" suppression by the Kim
Young-sam regime, and organize to abolish the "National Security
Law," he stressed.
An appeal was released to the 70 million Korean compatriots
who live in the north, south and abroad under the title "Let us
halt the Kim Young-sam regime's suppression of Hanchongryon and
accelerate the movement for independence, democracy and
reunification of the country." The appeal was adopted as a
resolution by the participants at the meeting. Upon conclusion of
the meeting the participants marched through the streets of Tokyo
shouting "Stop the Suppression of Hanchongryon" and "Abolish the
National Security Law."
Shawgi Tell
University at Buffalo
Graduate School of Education
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