Jeju Uprising event
also: April 3rd, April 3rd incident, April 3rd uprising and massacre, Jeju Massacre, the massacre, the unrest, uprising on the island
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National Committee for Investigation of Truth about the Jeju April 3rd Incident classified_as_genocide
Jeju Uprising documented
“Let's see. Basically being horrific. In 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of Truth about the Jeju April 3rd incident chaired by the South Korean prime minister describes the events as a genocide. South Korean President Roh Moo-…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 32:14
Roh Moo-hyun apologized_for
Jeju Uprising documented
“Let's see. Basically being horrific. In 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of Truth about the Jeju April 3rd incident chaired by the South Korean prime minister describes the events as a genocide. South Korean President Roh Moo-…”
▶ Operations Gladio - Korea Really Last One @ 32:14
Syngman Rhee suppressed
Jeju Uprising documented
“attacking the U.S.-trained police, and you can think Phoenix programs type police in this case, and this youth league that was sent in by Ri. And the First Republic of Korea under Ri escalated the suppression of the uprising by declaring ma…”
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United States Armed Forces covered_up
Jeju Uprising host_asserted
“When the Republic of Korea was established, the U.S. military still held command over the Korean forces but basically refrained any demonstration of force because they didn't want everybody on the outside to know they were still in charge. …”
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in South Korea. It is South Korea's largest island. And if you wouldn't mind, Bridget, pulling up a map so you could put it up there so everybody can see what we're talking about. There was an uprising on the island from April 1948 to May 1…
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That's kind of where we're at. So we're going to go back to this. A year prior to the start of this conflict in 1948, the residents of Jeju had begun protesting elections scheduled by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea. And re…
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and beginning the eradication campaign against these people. And this went on for the better part of a year. Many rebel veterans and suspected sympathizers were later killed upon the outbreak of the Korean War. And the existence of the Jeju…
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within South Korea for several decades. In other words, they classified it and you weren't allowed to talk about it. The Jeju Uprising repression was notable for its extreme violence. They basically did an ethnic cleansing in there, redid. …
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Let's see. Basically being horrific. In 2003, the National Committee for Investigation of Truth about the Jeju April 3rd incident chaired by the South Korean prime minister describes the events as a genocide. South Korean President Roh Moo-…
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On the 3rd of April uprising and massacre, it was a chaotic period right after the independence from Japan on the Korean Peninsula. It was in the middle of the cold. Well, it wasn't in the middle of the Cold War. Come on, guy. Let's see.…
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The islanders courageously stood up against the division of the Korean Peninsula and strongly protested against the first election because the U.S. only wanted to be done in South Korea because they wanted their guy, Ri, to be in charge. Un…
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And you have all of these people that in some cases, some of these people that came back had been in captivity for 10 or 20 years. So a lot of turmoil is what I'm describing here. And supposedly there was a lot of concern about making sure …
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people in Greece and then decided they didn't want them once the war was over and then sent in these other people to basically kill the people they trained to try to be a pain in the ass to the Nazis. And they created their own chaos there.…
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So chaos, violence spread, which is, of course, what they're intended to do. And now the police stations and the jail cells are overflowing with people. On the morning of April 3rd, a dozen police stations came under attack by armed rebels …
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And this is exactly what happened in Colombia, by the way. So the U.S. military command was the supposedly ruling authority. They took no action to prevent any of the murder, the rape, the torture, or the destruction that was taking effect …
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During the autumn of 1948, violence raged as civilians were killed using bamboo spears, and entire villages were burned to the ground. Fearing targeted reprisals, villagers fled beyond the five-kilometer coastal area into the island's inter…
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tourist attractions are because they were near lava. There's cave structures and volcanic activity on this island. So at the heart of this incident was widespread opposition to the U.S. supported elections because they're disenfranchised wi…
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They really don't like Reid because he wasn't even there during the worst of their persecution by Japan. And number three, they want their country to be an entire country, not divided. And they're very concerned that if they have a South-on…
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across Korea, not just in the South and not just on this island. Some 90% of those who registered to vote across Southern Korea say they did so under duress. Overall, Zhaozhou had the lowest voter turnout in the country, the highest echelon…
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called the Republic of Korea, headed by a U.S.-backed Syngman Rhee, South Korea's first president. In a letter to Truman, Syngman Rhee wrote, quote, Such bullshit. Syngman Rhee also expressed confidence that the U.S. would be permitted to b…
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That's what it's really all about. On Jeju, following the establishment of the South Korean government, now you see what they were all about, right? So you have to decimate this island if you're going to be able to then invade it. As a fore…
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When the Republic of Korea was established, the U.S. military still held command over the Korean forces but basically refrained any demonstration of force because they didn't want everybody on the outside to know they were still in charge. …
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you know, like in the media or news. One U.S. official saw the uprising as an opportunity for the South Korean forces to gain, quote-unquote, combat experience. You know, just kill your neighbors, no big deal. In late 1948, Sigmund Rhee was…
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According to a U.S. Army G2 report, between 14 and 15 residents of the Jeju were killed in 1948. In one mass execution the following year, 249 people were killed with the approval of Sigmund Reed, an event that was not reported at all outsi…
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the Korean War, because it ended in 53, violence had basically significantly reduced and restrictions eased. But for decades, even mentioning the massacre was considered taboo. Those who did risk being labeled a North Korean sympathizer and…
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in the quote-unquote free country of South Korea. In 1999, the South Korean parliament passed the special law for fact-finding and reputation recovery, which was basically like a truth commission, like we've seen in many other places. In 20…
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He dubbed the island the island of peace. And in 2013, it was designated, the April 3rd, which is the original attack date, was designated as a national memorial day. The former president said, quote, a historical fact that no force can den…
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Hyo Ho Chung interviewed retired American military advisors who had been on Jeonju during the April 3rd incident and claimed to know nothing about the massacres happening around them. That's how bullshit this is. As the drive for reconcilia…
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apology regarding the role of the U.S. government and the U.S. military advisor group has been delayed. Ko notes, the guy that's doing all of this remembrance stuff, notes that in 2018, more than 200 South Korean civil society organizations…