ROK protesters turn anger on US consulate
Afp, Hong Kong
Militant South Korean anti-globalisation protesters sprayed the United States consulate in Hong Kong with graffiti Friday in their latest feisty demonstration against WTO trade talks here. About 100 protesters, mainly farmers, marched on the downtown consulate and sprayed their rallying cry, "Down, Down, WTO" on the outside wall in red and black paint. In a 90-minute vigil, they also vandalised a steel sign and pelted windows with eggs. Another group laid siege to the nearby South Korean consulate building, where about 20 protesters jostled with police as they tried to break through the locked doors. The minor incidents follow two days of low-intensity street skirmishes with police in which hundreds of riot officers, in an overwhelming display of force, repelled them with pepper spray and batons.
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South Korean anti-globalisation protesters get their head shaved during a demonstration in front the US embassy on the sidelines of the six-day sixth World Trade Organisation (WTO) ministerial meeting in Hong Kong yesterday. Global trade talks are going in the wrong direction, the European Union warned, as it continued to exchange barbs with the United States and fears grew the WTO meeting here could unravel. |
