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Times UKMillions of people across South Korea expressed anger and grief at the funeral of Roh Moo Hyun, the former president who committed suicide last weekend while being investigated for a multi-million pound corruption scandal.
Mourners lined the streets, weeping openly at the passing of Mr Roh’s cortège as it transported his body 200 miles from his home in the south-east of the country to the Gyeongbok Palace in central Seoul. Hundreds of thousands of people listened to speeches in the capital’s central plaza accusing the government of the current president, Lee Myung Bak, of hounding Mr Roh to his death for political reasons.
“Today condolences, tomorrow anger,” read a slogan on many of the banners. Tearful mourners accused the conservative Mr Lee of the “political murder” of his predecessor and ideological opponent. South Korean internet users swapped conspiracy theories, so far completely unproven, that his death was in fact an assassination.
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When Mr Lee stepped forward to place a wreath, he was booed by members of the public watching the ceremony on giant screens outside. Inside the Palace grounds, one member of parliament, Baek Won Woo, was seized by bodyguards as he leaped forward, shouting curses and demanding that Mr Lee apologise. “This is political revenge, a political murder!” he said as he was dragged away.
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