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Article: S. Korea Arrests Ex-Ruler; Defiant Chun Held For Role in '79 Coup; South Korea Arrests Defiant Ex-President
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- The Washington Post
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- December 3, 1995
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Police arrested former president Chun Doo Hwan today on charges of
having orchestrated the 1979 military coup that brought him to power,
marking the second time in three weeks that South Korean authorities
have arrested an ex-leader.
Chun was arrested under a warrant issued hours after the former
army general delivered an address on national television in which he
vowed not to answer prosecutors' questions about the coup and the
1980 massacre of civilians opposed to his military rule. Chun ruled
South Korea from 1980 to 1988 after leading the coup that toppled an
authoritarian government.
"I will not cooperate with the summons," Chun, 64, told the
nation, along with the crowd gathered ...