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Riot Squad from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department Dispatched to Henoko – Crooked Justice of Riot Police from Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department who stay at resort hotel and bully the people of Okinawa Prefecture – Please focus consciousness on Okinawa and pour light on it.
Watch this short video which it takes less
than two minutes to watch. The video reports that a riot squad from thes
Metropolitan Police Department has been dispatched in front of U.S. Marine
Corps Camp Schwab in Henoko. They say that SEALDs* will also takeparticipate in demonstration campaign.
We people on the mainland of Japan are also
involved in the Okinawa issue in that Japan will return to the prewar society
unless we can protect democracy. Rather Okinawa is the frontline of the fight
to protect our democracy. I do ask you to focus consciousness on Okinawa and
pour light on it.
(Note) *SEALs – Student Emergency Action
for Liberal Democracy
November
9, 2015
Masatoshi
Takeshita
Video: Dailymotion – November 4,
2015 –
Riot
police from Metropolitan Police Department dispatched to Henoko
Dispatch of riot policemen to Henoko provokes
backlash of local people, leading to scuffle
About 130 riot policemen from Tokyo’s
Metropolitan Police Department in front of Camp Shwab
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English translation of a Japanese newspaper:
Nikkan Gendai – November 6, 2015 –
Crooked
Justice of Riot Police from the Metropolitan Police Department who stay at
resort hotel and bully the people of Okinawa Prefecture
Are you all right with it, Riot Squad? (C)
Nikkan Gendai
It looks like “Heisei version of Sunagawa
Struggle.”
We saw “the local
people versus police” over the relocation of U.S. Futenma base in
Okinawa to the coastal area of Henoko in Nago City.
Until a week ago they had squared off against each other. However, the situation
has completely changed since the Okinawa Defense Bureau
resorted a radical measure to “start construction” late last month. The situation is getting more and more abnormal in which intensified
conflict has caused more local people to get hurt. It is a “riot squad from the Metropolitan Police Department”
dispatched to Henoko in particular that antagonize the
local people.
In front of U.S. Marine Corps’s Camp Schwab
we hear angry voice: “Go back to Tokyo!” Riot police from Metropolitan Police
Department who has been dispatched to the scene since November 4 stand up
against the people of Okinawa Prefecture who have continued to stage a sit-in.
It is quite unusual for the police other than the Okinawa Prefectural Police to
directly come in conflict with the residents in front of the gate.
“Since vehicles of the dispatched riot police
have Tama plate numbers, it is probably the Fourth Riot Squad of the
Metropolitan Police Dearptment. The unit was called the
“heard-hearted fourth squad” because they contained the local resident opposing
the construction of Tachikawa airport of U.S. military forces in Japan in the
1950s. Such an elite unit has skirmished with the elders or women who
have a far smaller build. Ambulances are called so often. (Staff of local
non-governmental organization joining a protest activity)
According to the Metropolitan Police
Department, the riot police are dispatched in response to a request for aid
from the Okinawa Prefectural Police. However, the residents
who are protesting are not gangsters or terrorists. It is not necessary for well-reputed riot squad of the
Metropolitan Police Department to obtrude themselves.
Furthermore, the place where the riot
police makes the local residents get angry.
“They stay at an
exclusive resort hotel in Nago, which costs approximately 50,000 yen per room
per night. It is not so costly now due to off-season rates. However, the
residents get so angry, saying “they come to oppress us as if they were
enjoying vacation in a holiday resort.” (A resident of Nobeko)
We confirmed with the hotel of whether they
stay or not. The hotel admitted that they stay there but they replied to our
question about the number and the scheduled length of stay by saying “we cannot
answer it because of information on individuals.”
It is said that the
number of dispatched riot policemen is between 100 and 200. It means that
several million yen per night is spent. This is exactly
wasting of tax money. Mr. Toru Gushiken, Okinawa prefectural assembly member,
says:
“The riot policemen are just like trained
robots. They even seem to enjoy rioting about.
However, we should
not see them as an enemy. They just move on order from the crazy prime minister
and defense minister. I don’t think that this approach will last that long.”
Are you fighting for the dictator who loves
war or for the people who wish for ordinary happy life? You riot policemen had better remember what motivated you to become
policemen.
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