INTERVIEW with WTO PROTESTER

After South Korean Farmers League member Lee Kyung-hae committed suicide while protesting the World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun last week, interviews were conducted of other Korean protesters by BureauCrash, an organization dedicated to exposing abuses of power. The following is excerpted from the interview of the Korean translator for the Farmers League.

So, we've been here now for several days, and we've heard about the death of your former leader, Kyung Lee. We understand that he's been going to many of these international protests and that he had tried to take his life before. Were you worried that something like this might happen? Was there any attempt to stop him.

Yes. (translates for ___)

(___ replies): Yes, they have been concerned, and thought that maybe he'd try something like this in Cancun too because he mentioned something a month ago in Korea, that, you know. So, they don't want him to come here, but he came independently. (___ speaks again; translates) But nobody knows that the wound would be too serious, you know.

So, you knew he would stab himself, but just not that it would be fatal.

Yes.

I guess the way to interpret the whole event now is that he mistakenly killed himself during a suicide attempt. A botched attempted suicide. Yeah, that's it.

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