Anti-Chun protest
NZPA-Reuter Seoul About 200 riot police fired tear-gas canisters yesterday to break up about the same number of anti-Government student demonstrators on the campus of Sung Kyun Kwan University in Seoul. The slogan-chanting students threw stones during the hour-long demonstration denouncing the Government of President Chun Doo Hwan and demanding the release of political prisoners.
At least 11 students were detained by the police at the scene after the demonstration was brought under control. No casualties were reported. The protest started after some students scattered leaflets from the roof of a building urging fellow students to rise up against the Government. The leaflets called for the ousting of "the fascist regime” of Mr Chun. The leaflets designated May 18-27 as a period of “holy war for democratisation” in commemoration of the first anniversary of the bloody Kwangju rioting last year, and urged students to wear black ribbons during the period.
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