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‘Grabbers travel light: running shoes, colour- coordinated windbreakers and helmets, and open- fingered gloves for grabbing, with a coarse padding over the knuckles so punches won’t slip. They are experts in tae kwon do, the Korean martial art – and they seem to enjoy using it. Grabbers gang up on individuals, fracturing wrists, cracking ribs. For years this has been happening to opposition politicians, labour organisers, ministers, anyone who opposed the government—but especially students. The lucky ones are beaten up and driven out of the city to a remote garbage dump—not exactly a short stroll home in Seoul, a city of nearly ten million people.The leaders are usually imprisoned and tortured.’ 4
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4 Boyd Gibbons. ‘The South Koreans’ National Geographic ,Vol. 174, No. 2,August 1988. p251f
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