SOUTH KOREA: OPPOSITION MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY FIGHT WITH SOUTH KOREAN RIOT POLICE.

Record ID: 375890

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: OPPOSITION MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY FIGHT WITH SOUTH KOREAN RIOT POLICE.
  • Date: 11th August 1969
  • Summary: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING: DEMONSTRATORS: DR. CHIN-O YU: POLICE. Initials KM/VS/MR/BB Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 26th August 1969 13:00
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  • Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVAABP08GL2PPPD42F8SJMBAR6YR
  • Story Text: OPPOSITION MEMBERS BARRICADED THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HALL IN THE SOUTH KOREAN CAPITAL OF SEOUL ON FRIDAY TO BLOCK FORMAL INTRODUCTION OF A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILL AIMED AT PAVING THE WAY FOR PRESIDENT CHUNG-HEE PARK'S RE-ELECTION IN 1971. THE AMENDMENT WILL REMOVE AN EXISTING CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON A THIRD PRESIDENTIAL TERM.

    ABOUT 35 OPPOSITION NEW DEMOCRATIC PARTY ASSEMBLY MEMBERS, LED BY DR. CHIN-O YU, THE PARTY LEADER, PILED UP CHAIRS ON THE SPEAKER'S ROSTRUM AND AT THE ENTRANCE FOR THE SPEAKER SHORTLY BEFORE A CEREMONY WAS TO BE HELD OPENING AN EXTRAORDINARY LEGISLATIVE SESSION.

    RIOT POLICE WERE CALLED IN TO BREAK UP THE DEMONSTRATING OPPOSITION MEMBERS AND A NUMBER OF ARRESTS WERE MADE.
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