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Korea's Grievous War

Title
Korea's Grievous War / Su-kyoung Hwang.
ISBN
9780812248456 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0812248457 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publication
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Copyright Notice Date
©2016
Physical Description
250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 27, 2017
Series
Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
Pennsylvania studies in human rights
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-239) and index.
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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