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Crimes, Concealment and South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Do Khiem  and
Kim Sung-soo
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In the summer of 1950, at the start of the Korean conflict, the government of Syngman Rhee in the South ordered the massive execution of over one hundred thousand (perhaps two hundred thousand) civilians simply suspected of being communist sympathizers. This war crime by any standard, civilized and uncivilized, has only been unveiled recently and officially by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Republic of Korea http://www.jinsil.go.kr/English/Commission/index.asp.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 8 , August 2008 , e2
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