In a surprising and sad moment, Lee Kyang-Hae, a 50 year old Korean farmer, and longtime WTO protester, committed suicide in front of the meeting on Wednesday afternoon.
The farmer saw not only "his way of life" being destroyed by neoliberalism and hyperspeed urbanization, but connected his situation with those of farmers around the world.
Once I ran to a house where a farmer abandoned his life by drinking a toxic chemical because of his uncontrollable debts. I also could do nothing but hear the howling of his wife. If you were me, how would you feel? --Kyang-Hae Lee
His words and photos
The story, at Cancun IMC
Peasant Commits Suicide at WTO Meeting