Posted on 04/09/2024 4:36:58 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
At dawn on this date in 1975, the South Korean dictatorship hanged eight pro-democracy activists, the day after the Korean Supreme Court had approved their spurious conviction as agents of the fictitious “People’s Revolutionary Party”.
The eight, Woo Hong-seon, Song Sang-jin, Seo Do-won, Ha Jae-wan, Lee Su-byeong, Kim Yong-won, Doh Ye-jong and Yeo Jeong-nam, were tortured by the Korean CIA into admitting affiliation with this organization supposedly collaborating with the Communist North.
They were among numerous opponents of South Korean strongman Park Chung-hee rounded up for protesting against the legal codification of outright dictatorship in the early 1970’s.
Early last year, a South Korean court officially ruled that they had been wrongly executed, and awarded their surviving family members $26 million.
According to the worldwide anti-death penalty organization Hands Off Cain, the death penalty remains on the books in South Korea but has not been employed for over a decade.
This was likely the basis of Carter deciding to hand South Korea to the Norks...THANKFULLY, unlike today’s Neocons, Jimmy Carter could be reasoned with, and thus (effectively) walked back that decision. Similar to what happened with Carter and South Africa.
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
But...but I thought the South Koreans were the good guys.
Park got his upcomance four years later. See “The President’s Last Bang”.
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