Nago City Assembly asks JCG to stop taking excessive actions against citizens

Nago City Assembly asks JCG to stop taking excessive actions against citizens

After meeting with officials of the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, Minoru Yabiku (from right), Yoshitami Oshiro, and Zenko Nakamura, answered questions from the media. At Naha harbor joint government office on February 12.


February 12, 2015 Ryukyu Shimpo

The Okinawa Defense Bureau is carrying out construction of a new base to replace Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Henoko, Nago. Citizens protesting the construction, have continuously been injured by excessive force used by officers of the Japan Coast Guard (JCG). On February 12, a chairman of Nago City Assembly Minoru Yabiku and other assembly members visited the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters. They asked the JCG to stop taking excessive actions against protesting citizens. The meeting was closed to the public.

Yabiku, deputy chairman of the assembly Zenko Nakamura, and Yoshitami Oshiro, a chairperson of Special Committee for Military Base Affairs in the assembly, denounced incidents in which coast guard officers injured citizens, using excessive force against them. They handed over a written opinion to the 11th Regional Coast Guard Headquarters to demand immediate cessation of landfill. According to Nakamura, Akira Namihira, a representative of the headquarters, said, “The coast guard officers take basic actions to remove the protesters by abiding by the law.” Yabiku said, “They superficially claimed the officers had dealt with the situation according to the law.”

Yabiku and the assembly member visited the Okinawa Prefectural Police and the Okinawa Defense Bureau to ask them to stop taking excessive action against protesting citizens.

(English translation by T&CT)

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