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TIL About the Jeju Massacre, where South Korean forces wiped out 10 percent of the island of Jeju for the crime of organizing a General Strike

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Jeju uprising - Wikipedia

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It's called 4.3 in here South Korea. Fascist pesident Syngman Lee, backed by the US army, committed genocide in Jeju. The army was ordered to consider anyone in the island, including children, as riots. The reason of this genocide was that Labor Party of South Korea was popular in Jeju. The fascist leading opposition People's Power still claim that it was a communist riot.
- Han Kang's novel
  <We Do Not Part>
  well describes this event.
  
  I also recommend Han Kang's Human Acts, going over the Gwang-Ju Massacre by the butcher Chun Do-Hwan.
  
  Nobel prize recipient
  Why even bother mentioning this? Nobody cares about the opinions of some crusty old imperialist fuckheads. They are clearly deeply unserious in their prize selection process.
- Yeah but I was told that it's hateful to call a fascist a fascist, so...
  Guess we'll just have to live with the coming bloodshed. I can't wait to be told to "get over it."
I am being deprogrammed....
- Nodutdol just released a toolkit on Korean reunification, going over the background of the division, its history of Japanese colonialism, and demystifying the DPRK. Seems to do a good job of going over the western framing of Korea from a Korean leftist perspective.
The RoK put communists in concentration camps and it is ignored as often as those who died in Hitler's camps
https://youtu.be/bvk75wsyUbQ
Title very misleading
A general strike was later organized by the Workers' Party of South Korea (WPSK) from February to March 1948.
Yes but then
The WPSK launched an insurgency in April 1948, attacking police and Northwest Youth League members stationed on Jeju who had been mobilized to suppress the protests by force.[
Not justifying a crime like this, just setting the record straight
- Yes, because the dictator Rhee Syngman was slaughtering communists and labor organizers, as well as just random civilians.
- Are you really coming to the defense of the dictator Rhee Syngman just because leftists hate him? The WPSK started fighting against the dictatorship because it was a merciless dictatorship slaughtering communists, trade unionists, etc. Rhee Syngman was a butcher, he slaughtered countless Koreans even below the parallel. One of the more famous instances was blowing up the Hangang bridge while civilians were still on it, just to save his own skin.
  You're outright defending Korean Pinochet.
  
  Mods should indeed consider banning you from the server for spreading disinfo. They are far too lenient.
  
  Damn... everyone in S.Korea except the far right hates Rhee... including liberals... We actually learn at school that Rhee was a dictator.

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