People from different social standings, elated with mounted desire and will to enjoy a true life in a new society of which masters are the people without foreign forces, exploitation and suppression, waged struggles against the “government” and for reunification in Seoul, south Korea, on the occasion of the 66th anniversary of Korea’s liberation.
On August 15 the August 15 all-people rally for independence, peace and reunification in the Korean Peninsula was held under the sponsorship of different civic organizations and opposition parties.
Attending the rally were figures from the opposition parties including the Democratic Labor Party and the New Progressive Party, the Solidarity for Progress and the National Federation of Peasants Associations, and some 10,000 citizens.
The participants staged a demo chanting slogans such as “Repeal the hostile policy toward the north”, “Defend peace”, “Opposition to various military drills, aggressive arms buildup, construction and expansion of new military bases” and “Abolish the unequal south Korea-US alliance” and holding placards reading “Repeal the hostile policy toward the north” and “Implement the June 15 and the October 4 declarations”.
The security authorities, perplexed by the fierce anti-government struggle of the participants, mobilized the fascist police to set up barricades with police vehicles and cruelly suppressed the demo firing water cannons. However, they could not stem the soaring spirits and volition of the demonstrators desiring for independence, peace and reunification.
A “cultural festival for independent reunification” was held in Seoul on August 14 with the attendance of over 15,000 citizens and members of the Solidarity for Progress, the People's Power and other civic organizations and opposition parties including the Democratic Party, the Democratic Labor Party, the New Progressive Party, the Creative Korea Party and the People’s Participation Party.
The participants stressed in a resolution that after the Lee Myung-bak regime took power the inter-Korean relations were destroyed and the people have been suffering from the crisis of existence caused by the decreased real income, price hikes and unemployment. They expressed their resolve to shape a history of independent reunification through defending peace of the Korean Peninsula, liquidating the subordinate south Korea-US alliance and implementing the south-north joint declarations, and punish the Lee regime and win in the scheduled general and presidential elections in 2012 through general unity of all public circles.
On the same day, there took place in Seoul the 2011 youth camp for peace and reunification, the women’s festival for reunification, the August 15 students’ cultural festival for independent reunification, the August 15 paupers’ reunification rally for realizing peace of the Korean Peninsula and gaining the survival rights of the paupers, the August 15 peasants’ resolve-making rally for independent reunification, the August 15 workers’ national rally and the rally of the Democratic Labor Party for independent reunification.
The rallies dynamically demonstrated the firm will for reunification of the south Korean people to overthrow the Lee regime by their united efforts, and thrust the separatist forces at home and abroad into fear and terror.
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