Commandos tackle S Korea strikers

[Robbien]

Source: BBC

South Korean police commandos have dropped from helicopters to try to end a factory sit-in by sacked workers demanding to keep their jobs.

More than 500 workers have occupied the main car plant of Ssangyong Motors for more than 10 weeks.

For a second day, police battled laid-off workers armed with metal rods and throwing projectiles.

Ssangyong is under court-approved bankruptcy protection and is trying to cut thousands of jobs to stay afloat.

Police said about 50 people were injured in Wednesday's clashes.

The commandos dropped by rope from helicopters while others were lowered in a shipping container onto the roof of one of the paint shops.

Other police commandos charged the building with ladders.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8185877.stm

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About 4,000 riot police have raided one building after another that were held by dismissed workers who protested plans for massive job cuts.

The strike has turned the plant into a 'hell of fire, smoke and battle scenes,' local YTN television said.

Police dropped liquid tear gas from two helicopters on to the plant, located about 70 kilometres north of Seoul. YTN showed images of strikers armed with steel pipes and hurling Molotov cocktails, resisting the police assault.

The violence subsided in the afternoon, as police held off from moving into the last occupied paint shop for fear of flammable materials stored inside.

Hundreds of people protested against the police assault outside the plant.

[billyoc]

1. IOW, "Strikers Repel Commandos Again".

[Robbien]

3. Yup, it is all the strikers' fault that they got hurt

The four thousand commandos opened up hell upon the plant with all types of heavy weapons and even air support. Strikers had sticks and stones.

[billyoc]

4. How does what I wrote sound like it's blaming the strikers, Einstein?

[Robbien]

5. Not saying you did

Most of the articles on this commando raid are justifying the use of such heavy arms against the strikers saying it was because the strikers were armed.

[conspirator]

2. "Democracy" only exists as long as you are a serf to the rich

If you stop being useful to them, and demand your share of the earth's resources they will send their commados to kill you in a blink of an eye.