100,000 people have been slaughtered, but there’s a case that’s been forgotten
It’s not something that happened in a distant country, it’s not a distant past
It happened in Korea in the 1950s, so it was the massacre of the Korea Press Federation
On June 5, 1949, the Korean government formed a group of people who had turned left-wing ideas in the past, and the name was National Press Federation He even promised members of the press union that he would never judge or punish past wrongdoings
However, because the government has allocated the number of people who will join the press federation in each region, even those who have nothing to do with the left have been forced to join As a result, the number of members of the Press Federation has reached 200,000
However, when the Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950, the Korean government broke its promise to members of the Korea Press Federation and began to slaughter members of the Korea Press Federation indiscriminately in various parts of the country
The number of members of the Association of Journalists who were slaughtered is estimated to be at least 100,000, and if we increase it further, it is estimated to be 200,000 to 1.2 million
The number of victims is jagged because after Park Chung-hee launched the May 16 coup in 1961, all documents related to the massacre of the Korea Press Federation were removed, and the massacre itself was taboo in Korean history as he suppressed and monitored the bereaved families of the Press Federation
So exactly how many members of the press union were slaughtered, and where and how they died, can only be estimated based on the testimony of the bereaved families or survivors