SOUTH KOREA: PROTEST OUTSIDE US MILITARY BASE

(28 Apr 1996) Eng/Korean/Nat Angry farmers and student activists have held a rally outside a United States military base north of Seoul. They’re demanding an explanation and an apology for a brush fire that killed seven Koreans. They’re also demanding that a firing range be moved because it is on privately owned land. The anti-US sentiment is more than just vocal in South Korea. Grafitti saying “Yankee Go Home“ was spray-painted on the parking lot in front of Camp Casey, a U-S military base north of Seoul. About 1-hundred farmers and activists shouted anti-U-S slogans during a rally demanding that the U-S military take responsibility for a recent brush fire that killed seven Koreans. The angry farmers brought in tractors to try to break the riot police barricade. Emotions ran high among the farmers who appealed to the crowd to help them not lose their land. Police tried to calm the tractor driver and the angry c