Hunger strikers say:
'U.S. out of Korea'
Five students from South Korea carried out a hunger strike
in front of the White House for thirteen days ending Aug. 17.
They did so to protest against the presence of 37,000 U.S.
troops that enforce the division of their country, the Bush
administration's so-called missile defense plan that is a
particular threat to the people of Korea, and U.S.
interference in the process of reunification for Korea. Their
literature slammed the U.S. for war crimes committed against
civilians during the Korean War, and referred to the popular
war crimes tribunal in New York City June 23 that found the
U.S. guilty of those crimes. On the last day of their hunger
strike, two of the hunger strikers took a bus to Philadelphia
to join the rally for Mumia, and spoke words of solidarity
for the best-known political prisoner in the United
States.
--Scott
Scheffer
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