Yu Ri Kim
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Reaction Paper 1 Assignment
Jeju or Cheju Island is a one of the biggest island in South Korea and very famous for their beautiful scenery, food, and the unique culture. However, under the beautiful scenes there’s a dark history - Jeju April Uprising. It is one of the most brutal and bloodiest history in South Korea, but yet history repeats itself and currently Gangjeong villagers are going through a similar violence.
Jeju April Uprising is also called Jeju Massacre due to the number of deaths and violence Jeju civilians went through. Like Holocaust, the massacre targeted a certain group of people and soon led to a genocide of Jeju residents. After the liberation from the Japanese, there was still a strong number of …show more content…
To implement and emphasize the voting Governor Yu instructed, in return for the election civilians will receive food stamps. In addition to food stamps, the navy blocked off all other trail of food and other supplements. This not only stopped supply for the guerrilla but also for Jeju civilians, who had no idea what communism was or why they had to follow orders from foreigners even after liberation. In addition, the soldiers rounded up all civilians who lived on the edges of the island and surrounded them up to the middle of the island burning all resources : homes, lands, and farms. About 70% of Jeju was burned down to destroy all existence of ‘communist’ and 20,000 homes were raided as well. Once rounded up whomever was ‘suspected’ of being a leftist by the soldiers were either brutally tortured or killed. The soldiers were strong rightist, gangs that supported the movement, or American soldiers whom all practiced extreme brutality. ‘Suspected’ civilians were shot with their hands tied in the back than shot one by one, heads would be cut off and stuck to a bamboo stick for display, or bodies would be dumped in public with neither mercy nor morals. During this time there was absolute no morals as soldiers not only target men but children, women, and the elderly proving merciless murders and a genocide of Jeju civilians.In efforts to runaway about 40,000 fled to Japan, but the number of deaths are about to be 60,000 to 80,000 murdered under cold
Yk6636
Reaction Paper 1 Assignment
Jeju or Cheju Island is a one of the biggest island in South Korea and very famous for their beautiful scenery, food, and the unique culture. However, under the beautiful scenes there’s a dark history - Jeju April Uprising. It is one of the most brutal and bloodiest history in South Korea, but yet history repeats itself and currently Gangjeong villagers are going through a similar violence.
Jeju April Uprising is also called Jeju Massacre due to the number of deaths and violence Jeju civilians went through. Like Holocaust, the massacre targeted a certain group of people and soon led to a genocide of Jeju residents. After the liberation from the Japanese, there was still a strong number of …show more content…
To implement and emphasize the voting Governor Yu instructed, in return for the election civilians will receive food stamps. In addition to food stamps, the navy blocked off all other trail of food and other supplements. This not only stopped supply for the guerrilla but also for Jeju civilians, who had no idea what communism was or why they had to follow orders from foreigners even after liberation. In addition, the soldiers rounded up all civilians who lived on the edges of the island and surrounded them up to the middle of the island burning all resources : homes, lands, and farms. About 70% of Jeju was burned down to destroy all existence of ‘communist’ and 20,000 homes were raided as well. Once rounded up whomever was ‘suspected’ of being a leftist by the soldiers were either brutally tortured or killed. The soldiers were strong rightist, gangs that supported the movement, or American soldiers whom all practiced extreme brutality. ‘Suspected’ civilians were shot with their hands tied in the back than shot one by one, heads would be cut off and stuck to a bamboo stick for display, or bodies would be dumped in public with neither mercy nor morals. During this time there was absolute no morals as soldiers not only target men but children, women, and the elderly proving merciless murders and a genocide of Jeju civilians.In efforts to runaway about 40,000 fled to Japan, but the number of deaths are about to be 60,000 to 80,000 murdered under cold