SOUTH KOREA: ACTIVISTS AND STUDENTS PROTEST OUTSIDE U.S. BASE IN EUIJONGBOO OVER DEATHS OF TWO SCHOOL GIRLS RUN DOWN BY A U.S. ARMOURED VEHICLE IN SEOUL

Record ID: 526040

  • Title: SOUTH KOREA: ACTIVISTS AND STUDENTS PROTEST OUTSIDE U.S. BASE IN EUIJONGBOO OVER DEATHS OF TWO SCHOOL GIRLS RUN DOWN BY A U.S. ARMOURED VEHICLE IN SEOUL
  • Date: 28th June 2002
  • Summary: (W3) EUIJONGBOO, SOUTH KOREA (JUNE 28, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS SCUFFLING WITH POLICE (6 SHOTS) 0.37 2. WS: POLICE GUARDING GATE OF U.S.'S CAMP RED CLOUDS 0.40 3. SLV'S: U.S. SOLDIERS INSIDE BASE (2 SHOTS) 0.51 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) PROTEST LEADER OH JONG-RYUL SAYING: "It is sad to lose our two daughters, and it is not right what the U.S. troops did after killing our two daughters and after burying them." 1.11 5. VARIOUS OF PROTEST RALLY/BANNERS READING IN ENGLISH "Our girls were pressed, squeezed, crushed to death!" AND "Source of Evil, U.S. troops out of Korea!" (4 SHOTS) 1.32 6. VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH PICTURES OF TWO DEAD GIRLS (2 SHOTS) 1.43 7. WS: MORE OF RALLY 1.49 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (FILE) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 8. VARIOUS STILL PHOTOS OF ACCIDENT SITE/ TWO VICTIMS (5 SHOTS) 2.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th July 2002 13:00
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  • Location: EUIJONGBOO AND SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
  • Country: South Korea
  • Reuters ID: LVA8CG1820QSTYCRL4XYBTW93ZOP
  • Story Text: South Korean civic group members and students have
    protested in front of a local U.S. military base over death of
    two school girls killed by a U.S. armoured vehicle two weeks
    ago.


    About 30 South Korean activists and students
    demonstrated outside a U.S. military base on Friday (June 29)
    following an accident two weeks ago in which a U.S. army
    vehicle killed two girls during a training exercise.

    Minor scuffles broke out when police stopped the
    protesters from setting up tents to stage a sit-in.

    The demonstrators, gathered at Camp Red Cloud, north of
    Seoul, demanded a sincere apology, the punishment of the
    military officer who is responsible for the accident and a
    thorough investigation of the tragedy.

    The armoured vehicle ran over the two teenage students in
    a suburb of Seoul on June 13.

    A Korean civic group has released the still photos of the
    accident site and victims.

    U.S. military officials in South Korea have apologised for
    the accident.

    On June 18, the U.S. military held a candle-lit vigil and
    memorial service for the victims at the base near the heavily
    fortified border with North Korea.

    Korean protesters have held a series of protest rallies
    in front of the base, throwing rocks at U.S. soldiers, and
    tearing off signboards and symbols at the gate of the base.

    The accident happened three days after anti-U.S.protesters
    clashed with police over the death of a South Korean worker at
    another U.S. military base.

    The worker died after suffering an electric shock.

    The U.S. has 37,000 troops in South Korea, a military
    presence designed to deter communist North Korea but which is
    also a source of friction with communities near the U.S.

    bases.


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