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.
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
