Korea's grievous war / Su-kyoung Hwang.

Presents the historical background, political motivations, legal bases and social consequences of anticommunist violence, tracing the enduring legacy of this destruction in the testimonies of survivors and bereaved families that only now can give voice to the lived experience of the grievous war and...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Main Author: Hwang, Su-kyoung (Author)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Physical Description:250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Terror in Cheju Island
  • Emergency laws and the crisis of human rights
  • Ideological persecution and the massacre of 1950
  • Observing political violence in Korea
  • Politics of fear in the bombing of Korea
  • The bereaved families.