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Early this year - like April of 2007 I was living in the small village called
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that is surrounded by the U.S. Military Base,
and the U.S. Military Base is going to expand
and those farmers who were living there were kicked out.
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Camp Humphreys is the name of the U.S. Military there
once the Camp Humphreys is, you know, getting big,
if it is done, then it愀 gone be like really harmful
for the local people, too, because you see crimes
committed by the U.S. soldiers and it愀 bad for the environment, too.
The soil is contaminated, you know, noise problems, everything.
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Nearly 1.000 days, the farmers, the small number of farmers about 200,
old people in their 70ies and 80ies they never stop their struggle.
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Some people agreed to leave the village taking money from the Government.
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So, many people actually went there to fight with the farmers, like activists
anarchists, peace activists, anti-capitalists
we all went into the village and we started living with those old people.
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They went into the village, which was surrounded - isolated
with the barbwires, fence. Fence was everywhere and
the police was everywhere, too.
Like thousands of police soldiers were guarding, so no one could enter the village.
And later the Korean Government with the U.S. Military took over the village.
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We want that the armed raids should stop and we should
put down our guns, because the peace talks is going on between
the North and the South, so there is no reason for the U.S. Military to be here.
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For like four years, many people tried everything
to stop the project and in a way it was successful,
because many people realised, that the peace and the military
can not come together.
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They saw that the presence of the US Military here
is a threat to the peace of our lives so many people actually
went there to fight with the farmers.
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