Statement to Protest the Establishment of Jeju Naval Base and Build Jeju-Okinawa Peace Solidarity, April 7th

http://cafe.daum.net/peacekj/RXi3/13<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; ">(English version on the bottom)</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "> </div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; "> </div>Statement to Protest the Establishment of Jeju Naval Baseand Build Jeju-Okinawa Peace Solidarity Tensions comparable to an under-siege and daily confrontations rise in Gangjeong Village where Jeju Naval Base is under construction. Even rudimentary protection of human rights and common sense became something hard to find. There is every reason why the current situation came to remind us of what happened on Jeju Island during the April 3rd Massacre of 1948. There were numerous cases of human rights violation and deprivation in Okinawa during the US military occupation. When there was the US military administration in South Korea, the April 4th Massacre on Jeju Island took place. There were killings everywhere from Torabora to Helmand during the US military government in Afghanistan. A Faluza attack was operated during the US military occupation of Iraq. The US military administration field manual was first made in the occupied Italy and North Africa in the 1940s, completed in Okinawa, recycled in South Korea to be maintained until today. It is inevitable that large-scale killings are repeated before a general election to set up a pro-US government wherever the US militarily governs, since the process is from the US military administration manual. The historical wounds that Okinawa and Jeju Island have stem from the same perpetrator. Depleted uranium munition was used in the Gulf War in 1990. There was a shooting accident where DU munition was used in Okinawa in 1995. There was an accidental bombing where DU was used in Yeoncheon in 1997. There was another DU-used accidental shooting in a US warship in Hawaii in 1998. And it turned out that in the US bases in Suwon, Cheongju, Osan in South Korea, and in Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, is being stored over 3 million DU bombs, the amount of which outnumbers three times that used in Iraq. US nuclear Tomahawk missiles aboard submarines use Jinhae in Korea as their port of call through Hawaii and the White Beach Naval Facility in Okinawa. It is obvious that those US ships would also be called to Jeju naval base once its construction is finished. All around the globe, the US bases are fraught with sexual assaults against civilians, cases of noise damage, and oil and other environmental contamination. The ongoing wounds in a state of constant aggravation in Okinawa and Jeju Island also have the same perpetrator. The most decisive factor in the connection of Korea-Japan, Okinawa and Jeju Island is the existence of the United Nations Command. According to the Notes Exchanged between Prime Minister Yoshida and Secretary of State Acheson, concluded along with Japan-US Mutual Security Treaty on September 8th, 1951, 'if and when the forces of the United Nations are engaged in any United Nations action in the Far East, Japan will permit and facilitate the support in and about Japan of the forces'. Corresponding to this agreement, the following bases were designated as rear bases for the UN Command: Yokosuka Naval Station, Yokota Air Base, Camp Zama, Sasebo Naval Station, Kadena Air Base, Futenma Marine Corps Air Station, the White Beach Naval Base. The Commander in Chief of the UNC exercises operational control stretching from Korea's DMZ to Okinawa. Therefore, the Korea-US-Japan military alliance is not an abstract notion but an existent military apparatus controlled by the same Commander. The borderline between Korea and Japan, between Okinawa and Jeju is almost meaningless, since to the US forces, they compose a single war zone. This is why Okinawa and Jeju Island cannot help sharing the same history, wound, and goal for their future. This is why anti-base movements in Korea and Japan, Okinawa and Jeju Island should be developed into one, a solidarity to a degree of coalition. We are gravely concerned about the so-called 'Beautiful Tourism Port for Mixed Military-Civilian Use' the construction of which is being unlawfully enforced in Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island. It is against all common sense that a military base and a civilian port are being constructed on the same piece of ground. It is a reckless victimization of civilian lives since a warship a.k.a. ambulating arsenal should cause accidents, and accidental confrontations to wage war should be staged in times of trouble. We do not want to see tensions rise at the sea lanes in Northeast Asia, the vital energy supply routes necessary for all livelihoods in Korea, China and Japan. The establishment of Jeju Naval Base, by fortifying Korea's military posture on the pretext of decreasing tension, will only increase the source of tension. The expansion strategy of the sea superpowers is a threat to coastal states, creating a dangerous environment where the latter find themselves being constantly driven by unreasonable and unbearable naval arms race. The more militarized the sea lanes are, the more insecure civilian lives and livelihood become. We oppose the establishment of Jeju Naval Base, since it is a grave setback on the counter to the constructive institutionalization of maritime regime yet fully fledged of Korea, China and Japan. Jeju Naval Base has already become the signal to a serious maritime tension between Korea and China since the Korean government used the Ieodo Socotra Rock area as a target. The Ieodo area which the Korean government and the ROK Marine Corps insistently commandeer as part of their rationale for the construction of the Jeju Naval Base is where Korean and Chinese Exclusive Economic Zones are overlapped. The EEZ by the standard of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea is a historical achievement which has successfully expanded maritime jurisdiction of coastal states in the Third World vis-a-vis hegemonic sea powers such as Japan and the US. It is true that while this regime is in place, there have arisen tensions in the northeastern sea travelled by Korea, China and Japan. Nevertheless, these three countries have been building a peaceful maritime regime in Northeast Asia through fisheries agreements. Building this Northeast Asia Maritime Regime can only be completed through pacifism, not militarism, in mutual trust built with time, not just with undersigned agreements. Providing serious encroachments on patience, compromise and trust, militarism can never help building peace in the northeastern sea. It is also an outright challenge to the UNCLOS. We call on the government to stop immediately the restraints on freedom of speech human rights violations against the residents and peace activists in Gangjeong Village. Inquering and protesting are the rights all citizens are born with, constitutionally guaranteed. It is a stark breach of the rule of law that the police, under a presumption that there would be illegality, restrain free movement and speech of the protesters as preventive measures. As we fully recognize that the Okinawa's and Jeju Island's problems share the same root, our primary demands are as follows: - We condemn the ongoing construction of the deceptive and dangerous, not only costly but environmentally and culturally holocaustic 'Beautiful Tourism Port for Mixed Military-Civilian Use' on Jeju Island.- We oppose the establishment of the Jeju Naval Base which will only increase military tension in the sea lanes in Northeast Asia.- We oppose the establishment of the Jeju Naval Base, a gravely negative and regressive blow to the institutionalization of a peaceful maritime regime in Northeast Asia.- We oppose the establishment of the Jeju Naval Base, an inhumane destruction of Gangjeong Village community which forces the residents to take lawless conflicts as the daily norm.- We accuse the National Police Agency of their violations of human rights and clampdowns on freedom of speech.- Stop immediately the unlawfully enforced construction of the naval base, an incivilizational demolition of Gureombi Rock and all the other invaluable natural and cultural heritage of mankind in and about the construction site. April 7th, 2012 Korea-Japan Peace Action to Stop the Establishment of Jeju Naval Base Undersignees (groups and individuals) Okinawa-Korea People UnityJapan-Korea People Solidarity NetworkStonewalk Korea, Stonewalk JapanSecond Generation of Hibakusha KoreaPlaintiffs Group for Futenma US Marine Corps Noise DamagePeace ForumOkinawa Group of NabiNortheast Asia Resource CentrePhotos magazine/group「Patrone」NO! AWACS HamamatsuConstitution Artile 9 - To the World To the FutureJoined Labor Union for FukuokaNPO Haneul HousePeace Committee in Aichi PrefectureNagoya Mitzubishi Plaintiffs Group for Chosun Women Labor Corps VicimsCall off! Legislation for Emergency Situations·Kawasaki Citizens' GroupＶＡＷＷ RAC（Violence Against Women in War Research·Action Centre)Time-Gazing Group10 ft. 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