April Post I
I wanted to summarize the facts of Gwangju Uprising in bullet points because some people are having difficulty understanding what the event is really about.
- 5.18 Gwangju Uprising is a national commemorative holiday.
- From 18th, the soldiers started to kill people by using guns and that caused the citizen to become citizen soldiers who fight against the government soldiers.
- 168 citizens were killed and total 4782 people were injured from protecting the city hall from the government soldiers. It was the final resistance to the government.
- There was no single article or news about the event in May, 1980. The foreign reporter was the first one to reveal the truth of the Gwangju Uprising.
- The head of the massacre was imprisoned for only two years and was released.
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