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Title:
Korea's Grievous War / Su-kyoung Hwang.
Author:
Hwang, Su-kyoung, author.
Publication Information:
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

©2016
Call Number:
DS918 .H94 2016
Abstract:
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 its aftermath.
ISBN:
9780812248456
Series:
Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Physical Description:
250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
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