SOUTH KOREA3,000 Protest Acquittalsof GIs in Girls’...
SOUTH KOREA
3,000 Protest Acquittals
of GIs in Girls’ Deaths
At least 3,000 students and activists marched with candles and burned an American flag in Seoul to protest the acquittals of two U.S. soldiers in a traffic accident that killed two South Korean girls.
“Punish American GIs! Go away American GIs!” they chanted, occupying four lanes of an eight-lane boulevard a block from the U.S. Embassy.
Several protesters and police officers were injured in scuffles when demonstrators insisted on marching toward the embassy, which was blocked by thousands of riot police.
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