Sunday 18 September 2011

The mysterious "hunger striker" and "indymedia " censorship

The self styled "hunger striker " Mr Okhwan Yoon who was staging an anti-DPRK , anti-communist provocation in Parliament square London seems to have gone quiet . By rights he would be have starved to death by now but all mention of his 'hunger strike has ceased and he does not refer it on his twitter page.
Mr Yoon's "hunger strike' was staged at a time when the people of Jeju island south Korea were conducting a struggle against the construction of a naval base on the island. They met with repression but Mr Yoon's "hunger strike" thousands of miles away in London won favour with the south Korean ruling elite who publicised it. Similarly the workers of the Hanjin company went on strike against mass dismissals and occupied a crane . Mr Yoon's slogans were identical to to those of the Lee Myung Bak puppet regime. Effectively he served them by a) diverting attention away from legitmate labour movement struggles and peace struggles in south Korea b) using their slogans against the DPRK c) calling for the DPRK to "open up" ie restore capitalism and extend the puppet colonial rule to the north d) pyschological warfare and provocation aimed at DPRK diplomats and DPRK overseas students in London.
When a question was posted to Indymedia UK along with materials on the Jeju island
struggle and Hanjin struggle , Indymedia did not allow it. It was not even allowed to go on as a hidden posting, just deleted straight away. This is appalling censorship by Indymedia UK

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