On this day in 1980, the Gwangju Uprising began when 200 South Korean students clashed with the army, a protest that quickly escalated into more than 10,000 citizens battling with state forces and seizing the city of Gwangju.
The uprising took place in the context of anti-democratic repression by the government of Chun Doo-hwan, who had declared an extensive martial law, closing universities, banning political activities, and heavily censoring the press. On May 18th, two hundred students gathered at the gate of Chonnam National University in defiance of its closing, clashing with thirty paratroopers.
The protest was violently subdued, and the first fatality of the repression was a 29-year old deaf man who had simply been passing by. In response, the population rebelled en masse, with more than 10,000 protesters joining the students over the next few days.
As the protests grew, so did state repression and an increasingly militant civilian response to it. By May 21st, civilian militias were engaging in full-blown battles with the army. After the civilian militias acquired and began using light machine guns, the army retreated and protesters temporarily gained control of Gwangju.
The rebellion was sustained until being defeated by force on May 27th. There is no official death toll for the uprising; figures vary from the low hundreds to more than two thousand dead. Regardless, the recorded deaths in the month of May were 2,300 higher than average. Nearly 1,400 were arrested for involvement in the Gwangju incident, and 427 were indicted.
In May 2020, 40 years after the uprising, the independent "May 18 Democratization Movement Truth Commission" was launched to investigate the crackdown and use of military force. Under legislation passed in 2018, it would operate for two years, with a one-year extension allowed if necessary.
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WHO IS "ASS"
AND WHY DO THEY HAVE ALL THE HIGH SCORES AT MY LOCAL ARCADE???
April O'Neil is best known as a porn actress, but her initials are at the top of the score board on half the pinBall machines west of the rockies.
One of the characters has a suitcase nuke that explodes if his heart stops and as a result people kinda treat him like a walking city state/force of nature.
often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. if my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken. The crowning touch, the one thing that really puts true world-class badmotherfuckerdom totally out of reach, of course, is the hydrogen bomb. If it wasn't for the hydrogen bomb, a man could still aspire. Maybe find Raven's Achilles' heel. Sneak up, get a drop, slip a mickey, pull a fast one. But Raven's nuclear umbrella kind of puts the world title out of reach. Which is okay. Sometimes it's all right just to be a little bad. To know your limitations. Make do with what you've got.
Raven stole the nuke from a us submarine. He's Aleut and his goal is revenge on the us.
Twink death isn't real, but their spiritual death is. I recently saw an adorable guy I follow online post a selfie in some concert hall. I thought nothing of it... Until I noticed his tickets were for Taylor Swift.
We've lost him :kim-salute: to
mothera mediocre white woman.Fidel Castro to the CIA back in the 50's: Don't worry. I'm totally not a communist. I'll set up a US friendly regime :troll:
I mean he literally tried to do that, then they tried to kill him over modest land reform
Man its weird being done with my bachelors degree. Five years done now
Celebrating by visiting my gf's place for two weeks tho so that's nice. Gonna move in with her later this year after saving up :comfy:
Started trying to watch German language shit without any subtitles and holy fuck I can't actually tell what words they are saying most of the time. The subtitles claim they say something but barely 50% of that actually came out of their mouths. bruh
Started trying to watch German language shit without any subtitles and holy fuck I can’t actually tell what words they are saying most of the time. The subtitles claim they say something but barely 50% of that actually came out of their mouths. bruh
Are you sure you're not watching Downfall memes?
Its been over 3 years and supply chains still haven't recovered from covid disruptions
lmao what a normal way for an economy to function
Just in time manufacturing and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Neither has the health care system. But then again, the strain on it isn't much less than at whatever the peak of the pandemic was, is it?
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Im listening to one of the bonus episode because i hate myself and liam is just distractedly watching a fking baseball game halfway thru the episode
This is what they give to people who give them fking money
Im pirating it btw
We lost Franklin and Cities: Skylines | Power, Politics & Planning for this. I mean I can hardly blame Rocz for taking the paycheck that's in front of him but god damn his content used to be so much better and it sucks that its basically never made anymore.
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bri'ish "people" be having sex like: mmmm yes splendid ah indeed scrumptious carry on good heavens i’m arriving