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Human Rights Activists Protest Planned Port Call of Chilean Navy Ship

Written: 2004-06-18 00:00:00Updated: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

South Korean human rights activists are protesting a planned port call by a Chilean sail-powered ship in South Korea.

The Esmeralda, the world's second-largest sail-powered ship, is to arrive in Pusan Port next Monday for a fifth visit to South Korea.

But local human rights activists are planning a picketing at the port protesting allegations of tortures and other human rights violations committed on the naval training ship in the past.

The Chilean Embassy in Seoul says that even if the allegations were true, they would have occurred during the 1970s and 1980s under Pinochet's regime.

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