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Article: U.S. TO BLAME FOR KOREAN ARMY'S MISDEEDS.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- September 3, 1996
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Byline: DONALD N. CLARK
Since most South Koreans want to avoid further trauma, it is unlikely that the death sentence for former President Chun Doo Hwan will ever be carried out. His trial on charges that included mutiny, treason, murder and grand-scale larceny was a national catharsis. Yet, because the judgment could not possibly have satisfied everyone, the controversies surrounding his illicit rise to power are likely to continue. The central controversy concerns his use of army troops to crush a democracy movement in the notorious Kwangju massacre of May 1980.
For Americans, the Kwangju massacre is not as familiar as the 1989 Tiananmen massacre in ...