Members of the Korean Special Warfare unit, military, ministry, and police force have been undergoing questioning about Yoon’s martial law declaration.
More troubling details are emerging on the declaration and the leading events.
The Special Warfare commander stated that Yoon directed him to drag out National Assembly members from the building to prevent them from voting to stop martial law.
Directives were to seize six locations including the National Assembly, National Election Commission, Democratic Party of Korea HQ, and public polling locations.
While ALL of it is alarming, it is the attempt to suppress public votes and voices that is particularly disturbing.
Counterintelligence was ordered to copy or remove the servers containing voter registration lists.
Voter and public opinion censorship, attempts to control the media, and using the military and special forces to violently suppress the democratic process all happened before. It is all too fresh in the minds of Koreans.
It was only 44 years ago where such attempts at repression were met with the people’s Gwangju Uprising and its subsequent U.S.-approved ROK authoritarian retaliation that killed tens of thousands of Korean citizens.
I see all of these signs of attacks on people’s voices happening in different forms in “democracies” around the world. The shredding of DEI, banning of books, jingoism, anti-immigrantism, rise of surveillance, conglomerate-owned media, voter suppression, corporate control of politics, and U.S. militarism.
Yoon must go. Listen to people in Korea rising up. Listen to people around the world rise up. The people are taking power back.
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