Korea's Grievous War / / Su-kyoung Hwang.
In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanc...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 21 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on Transcriptions and Testimonies
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Terror in Cheju Island
- Chapter 2. Emergency Laws and the Crisis of Human Rights
- Chapter 3. Ideological Persecution and the Massacre of 1950
- Chapter 4. Observing Political Violence in Korea
- Chapter 5. Politics of Fear in the Bombing of Korea
- Chapter 6. The Bereaved Families
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments