Re: AUT: Iraq, Korea, Islamic Fundamentalism

[Thiago Oppermann <difference_3ngine@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/11/2004 2:03 PM, "Michael Pugliese" <michael098762001@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 18:46:57 -0800, Hex * <shatterbreakseance@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Reply to Thiago,
>>
>> First, about Korea.  You may be right about 3000 slaughtered workers...
>
> http://www.kimsoft.com/korea/shorrok.htm

The death rate for Kwangju was officially put at 200 plus civilians and 900
'others'. The democracy movement claimed around 2000, a figure backed by
several Korea speacialists, eg. Gavin McCormack. There is some evidence that
the US was involved, eg. the Korean army could not have been deployed
without US consent; the USG has been extremely reticent to share what it
knows about the event, stonewalling Korean delegates in the early 90s.

The low end of the casualty scale is several Tienamens worth of dead
democracy activists. But hey - they got a democracy in the end!

Thiago



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