Migrant Worker Activist Minod "Minu" Moktan Deported!!26 Oct 09 Laborstart The South Korean government deported Minu (Minod Moktan) to Nepal at 5pm, Friday, October 23. Minu lived in South Korea for 18 years while working in factories, singing songs and working as a media activist at Migrant Worker's Television. Many friends, comrades and supporters of Minu wrote a petition for his release, held press conferences and demonstrations in order to prevent his deportation. The Lee Myung-bak administration began a targeted crackdown on undocumented migrant workers during October and November. The government seems to be working in a frenzy to deport migrant worker activists like Minu. Minu's deportation is very upsetting to many people in South Korea. No person should be illegal, especially not someone who has lived in South Korea for almost 20 years and has contributed so much to the development of multiculuralism in a nation that hides behind a mask of fabricated ideaology of cultural/racial homogeniety. |
