Re: Pre-War Killing

[Robert <wanaki@infi.net>]

The incidents sited fail to identify the underlying impetus behind the disturbances
which, of course, was the communist infiltration of agitators from the North
in an attempt to destabilize the South and establish Communist Cells which
 would lead a general uprising and be in place as a fifth column in the event
the North invaded the South, which it ultimately did.

Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 1/2/2003 9:03:31
> PM Pacific Standard Time, Jhk789@aol.com writes: 
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> > In
> > a message dated 1/1/2003 7:54:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, KEACLA1@aol.com
> > writes:  
> >  
> >  
> > > Can
> > > you provide one shred of evidence from a serious source that he killed 100,000
> > > people?  
> > >     
> >  
> >   
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>  
> There was a mini-civil war between Rhee regime and 
> S.Koreans opposed to his dictatorial rule from 1946 to June 1950. 
> A good example of this was the armed uprising in Cheju  
> Island against Rhee's separate election in the South in April 1948. In the 
>   
> ensuing six months struggle, some 30,000-60,000 people were killed 
> on the Island alone by Rhee's fascist youth corp, brutal police and army,
>  
> with help from the US military. Then, Rhee subdued the S.Korean military 
> rebellion in Oct. 1948, which was followed by an active guerrilla movement
> in the 
> SW and SE region of S.Korea in 1949 and 1950. In doing so, Rhee's forces
>  
> burned down villages and killed non-cooperating civilians, along with those
> who 
> took up arms.  
>  
> The estimated total of 100,000 deaths in these killings is derived from the 
>   
> following reference sources: 
>       1) John Merrill, Korea: The Peninsular Origins of the War, p.
> 181 
>       2) William Stueck, Rethinking the Korean War, p. 69 
>       3) Bruce Cumings, the Origin of the Korean War, I & II 
>  
> Hope this will be sufficient! 
>  
> jk 
>