미국 인권단체들, 워싱톤서 탈북자 강제북송 항의시위

We will stage demonstrations on Friday,


December 5 and Saturday, December


6 in Washington, D.C., specifically aimed at ending

China's brutal repatriation


policy.  I am pleased to attach flyers in English and


Korean describing these events:



Kim Jong-il and Hu Jintao: Partners in Killing



North Korean Refugees.

미국의 인권단체인 디펜스포럼과  인권단체들이 워싱톤에서 두 차례 대규모 탈북자 


강제북송중단을 촉구하는 시위를 12월 5일과 6일 가질 예정입니다.


12월 5일은 디시 중국대사관 앞에서 6일은 유니언 스테이션 앞 광장에서 시위를 갖


습니다. 


각 시위는 낮 12부터 오후 2시까지 진행되며 유니언 스테이션 앞 걸럼버스 서클 시위


위에서는 탈북자 및 북한 주민들의 참혹한 실상은 담은 사진 전시도 합니다.


이번 행상에 재미동포들의 많은 참여를 바라고 있습니다.

주소는  워싱톤 중국대사관 주소는 2300 Connecticut Ave., NW,  워싱톤 디시 컬럼버스


서클은   50 Massachusetts Ave., NE,  입니다.

 

Please Help Save North Korean Refugees by participating in these events

and please help us spread the word by:

1) forwarding these flyers to people on your email list;

2) printing out the flyer and posting it in your office;

3) volunteering to help with flyer distributions starting tomorrow and going on every

Saturday and Sunday for the next two weekends (if you can volunteer to be on one

of the flyer distribution teams email Henry at henry@defenseforum.org ); and

4) if you cannot be physically present with us on December 5 and 6, then please

consider making a tax-deductible donation to one or all of these causes -- the

protests, the balloon launches, and the refugee rescues all need funding and 100%

of donations go to the designated activity (email me at skswm@aol.com for more

information).

This is an especially critical time for the North Korea human rights movement.  While speculation continues over the health of Kim Jong-il, World Net Daily reports based on intelligence from Britain's MI6 that China has sent 100,000 more troops to the China/North Korea border, and all the Korean papers are reporting that North Korea has threatened to seal its border with South Korea in response to the balloon launches from South Korean-based NGOs. 

 

The situation for the refugees currently within China is worse than ever before and our friends sending messages of truth into North Korea are under incredible pressure to cease this activity.  We must stand with Fighters for a Free North Korea like Park Sang Hak and others who are sending these messages into North Korea.  We know that the South Korean Government is being called upon by North Korea to try to stop this activity -- an activity the South Korean Government used to conduct until the Sunshine Policy brought more darkness to North Korea.  The time to decide is now: whose side are we on -- those who reach out to the North Korean people or those who would appease the Kim Jong-il dictatorship?

 

There is not a more important time to take a stand in support of the human rights movement and to save the refugees.  We must press on all fronts: rescue refugees out of China, protest against China's brutal repatriation policy, and support the defectors sending balloons and broadcasting into North Korea. I personally believe that the balloon launches and the radio programs are even more important today than ever before because they are a means to reassure the North Korean people that South Koreans and Americans are, in fact, on their side, and it is the brutal dictatorship of Kim Jong-il that we all oppose.  The intensity of the reaction from the North Korean Regime to shut down Kaesong, to attack South Korea, and to seal its border and cut off communication are all indications of how very important these activities are in getting information to our brothers and sisters in North Korea.  We know from the defectors themselves the impact of these messages.

 

I encourage everyone reading this email to consider supporting the balloon launches and to join us in these upcoming demonstrations on behalf of the North Korean refugees in China.

 

We will stage demonstrations on Friday, December 5 and Saturday, December 6 in Washington, D.C., specifically aimed at ending China's brutal repatriation policy.  I am pleased to attach flyers in English and Korean describing these events: Kim Jong-il and Hu Jintao: Partners in Killing North Korean Refugees.

 

Please Help Save North Korean Refugees by participating in these events and please help us spread the word by:

1) forwarding these flyers to people on your email list;

2) printing out the flyer and posting it in your office;

3) volunteering to help with flyer distributions starting tomorrow and going on every Saturday and Sunday for the next two weekends (if you can volunteer to be on one of the flyer distribution teams email Henry at henry@defenseforum.org ); and

4) if you cannot be physically present with us on December 5 and 6, then please consider making a tax-deductible donation to one or all of these causes -- the protests, the balloon launches, and the refugee rescues all need funding and 100% of donations go to the designated activity (email me at skswm@aol.com for more information).

 

Acta Non Verba!

 

Suzanne Scholte