Protester killed in Cancun
surf | 10.09.2003 22:31 | Globalisation
A Korean farmer was killed during protests against the WTO protests on Wednesday. A Mexican woman was injured. During a march of landless farmers from the old town centre of Cancun towards the Conference Centre in the hotel zone, protesters tried to tear down a high metal fence. Police used batons and tear gas, several protesters were injured.
the injured Korean Farmer
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It was suicide
10.09.2003 23:14
Lee Kyung Hae has died in hospital.
He stabbed himself in the heart with a knife in protest, saying something along the lines of farmers round the world were committing suicide as a result of the WTO's policies.
This is an unusual, if not unprecedented, form of protest in Korea. None of the Koreans who travelled here with him expected it to happen and are all shocked.
kat
how? what?
11.09.2003 00:09
Huh? How does anyone suffer fatal injuries from a fence? Did the guy energetically throw himself at some spikes or something? You can hardly blame that on the oppression inherent in the fencing system, surely.
B Mused
BBC reports it as suicide
11.09.2003 09:13
Lee Kyang Hae, the head of South Korea's federation of farmers, stabbed himself to death during the protests, with a friend reported to have said his suicide was "an act of sacrifice" to show his disgust at the policies of the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
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