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PLEASE REBLOG, PEACEFUL PROTESTERS WATER CANNONED IN SOUTH KOREA (14/11/15)

The citizens of South Korea are currently being oppressed with brute force by the government, Please reblog and help spread the word and bring awareness to the current situation

The recap:

Korea’s current PM, Park Geun hye has proposed to make complete alterations to the nation-wide textbook, consiting of heavily biased views about past events in order to manipulate and warp both history and it’s citizens. The new textbook condemns the Korean independence movement as well as glazing over the dictatorship of her father, erasing the history of thousands who were abused over his dictatoship.

A group of protestors, consisting mainly of uni and young high school students has decided to gather at Gwanghwamun for a PEACEFUL PROTEST (met all regulations, has been reported/notified to the police PRIOR the protest) when all areas leading to the area was cut off by police.

They have since fired WATERCANNONS (WATCH VIDEO) laced with capsaicin/tear gas (X) and oil, blasting at random at protestors AS WELL as ambulances and other volunteers trying to give first aid. A man has been blased in the face and is in critical condition while many others are injured or currently are being brutally mishandled by police. The tear gas used by the government has been notified to consist dangerous levels of capsaicin and  465.75 LITRES has already been spent already in close proximity of the protestors in just few hours. (Korea is also undergoing the worst drought in 40 years. Yay) BUT MOST OF ALL, THE GOVERNMENT IS HEAVILY CENSORING ALL THIS. They have censored the most popular website naver.com, erased all of the news headlines and refused to broadcast the current situation in all national TV news channels. We have no way of communicating without the censorship of the Government without depending on SNS.

Please share and help us from being silenced by this dictatorship.

#Fucking_korea

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Chemical Warfare:  Park Geun-hye cracking down on demonstrators with water cannons laced with tear gas (11/14/2015)

The demonstrations, which are protesting the current Park Geun-hye government’s efforts to unilaterally push through the policies of state-issued textbooks and labor market reform, are expected to bring out around 100,000 people, both members of 53 civic groups, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions, and members of the general public.

Revolution in Seoul: Tens of thousands spill out onto the streets in massive anti-government/anti-Park Geun-hye protests

Around 80,000 anti-government protesters took to the streets of Seoul in the city’s largest demonstration in almost a decade.

The marches in the South Korean capital were organised by an umbrella labour union and various civic groups.

Although people had diverse complaints, they were united against the conservative government under president Park Geun-hye.

Demonstrators, many of whom wore masks and carried banners, took over a major street and marched between tight perimeters outlined by police buses.

Officers had strategically parked their vehicles to prevent access to roads leading to the presidential Blue House.

Things turned violent when the police clashed with members of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.

There were no immediate reports of injuries, but shocking photos have emerged of police firing powerful water cannons to disperse protesters.