From the Streets to the National Assembly Democratic Transition and Demands for Truth about Kwangju in South Korea

This chapter examines the political and social process of enacting special laws to compensate victims of the Kwangju massacre of 1980 in South Korea and to bring the military junta leaders to justice more than fifteen years after the atrocities were committed. The substantive part of this chapter ce...

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Published inState Violence in East Asia p. 47
Main Author Namhee Lee
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The University Press of Kentucky 2013
University Press of Kentucky
Subjects
Behavioral sciences
Criminal law
Criminal offenses
Democracy
Federal criminal offenses
Government
Homicide
Human behavior
Judicial system
Law
Legal proceedings
Legislative bodies
Legislatures
Martial law
Massacres
Murder
National politics
National security
Parliaments
Political activism
Political movements
Political oppression & persecution
Political organizations
Political parties
Political processes
Political protests
Political regimes
Political science
Political sociology
Political systems
Politics
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
Treason
Trial court proceedings
Trials
Violence
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Summary:This chapter examines the political and social process of enacting special laws to compensate victims of the Kwangju massacre of 1980 in South Korea and to bring the military junta leaders to justice more than fifteen years after the atrocities were committed. The substantive part of this chapter centers on a set of questions that are informed by the larger theoretical and analytical concerns laid out in the introduction and chapter 1 of this volume, such as: Why was Kwangju targeted by the new military? What were the political processes that started the violence, and what was its main political
ISBN:0813136792
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