LEADER 03950nam 2200685 450 001 9910789035403321 005 20211105200346.0 010 $a0-8014-7066-8 010 $a0-8014-7067-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801470677 035 $a(CKB)3710000000086550 035 $a(OCoLC)870273148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10835652 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001115695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12490116 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001115695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11083352 035 $a(PQKB)10904988 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001510086 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138570 035 $a(OCoLC)966913603 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51946 035 $a(DE-B1597)478502 035 $a(OCoLC)979954148 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801470677 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138570 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10835652 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683613 035 $a(OCoLC)922998453 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000086550 100 $a20130707d2014 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe massacres at Mt. Halla $esixty years of truth seeking in South Korea /$fHun Joon Kim 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-52331-2 311 $a0-8014-5239-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe Jeju 4.3 events -- Suppressed yet stubborn truths -- From oblivion to social attention -- The struggle of the periphery -- The establishment of the Jeju Commission -- The Jeju Commission, 2000-2003 -- The impact of the Jeju Commission. 330 $aIn The Massacres at Mt. Halla, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947. The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged landscape around Mt. Halla in Jeju Province, South Korea. The counterinsurgency strategy was extremely brutal, involving mass arrests and detentions, forced relocations, torture, indiscriminate killings, and many large-scale massacres of civilians. The conflict resulted in an estimated thirty thousand deaths-about 10 percent of the total population of Jeju Province in 1947. News of this enormous loss of life was carefully suppressed until the success of the 1987 June Democracy Movement.After concisely detailing the events of Jeju 4.3, Kim traces the grassroots advocacy campaign that ultimately resulted in the creation of a truth commission with a threefold mandate: to investigate what happened in Jeju, to identify the victims, and to restore the honor of those victims. Although an official report was issued in 2003, resulting in an official apology from President Roh Moo Hyun (the first presidential apology for the abuse of state power in South Korea's history), the commission's work continues to this day. It has long been believed that truth commissions are most likely to be established immediately after a democratic transition, as a result of a power game involving old and new elites. Kim tells a different story: he emphasizes the importance of sixty years of local activist work and the long history of truth's suppression. 606 $aMassacres$zKorea (South)$zCheju Island 606 $aTransitional justice$zKorea (South) 607 $aKorea$xHistory$yChejudo Rebellion, 1948 607 $aCheju Island (Korea)$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aMassacres 615 0$aTransitional justice 676 $a951.904/1 700 $aKim$b Hun Joon$f1975-$01528143 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910789035403321 996 $aThe massacres at Mt. Halla$93771554 997 $aUNINA