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'WHAT?!': Former leader bristles at reporters questioning 1980 massacre
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Former President Chun Doo-hwan arrived at a district court in Gwangju on Monday to testify in a trial handling a defamation case against him.
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Chun, who led an authoritarian government from 1980-1988, was indicted in May last year on charges that his memoir defamed victims of his government's bloody crackdown on the Gwangju pro-democracy revolt.
He is accused of libeling late activist priest Cho Chul-hyun, who said he witnessed the military firing at citizens from helicopters during the bloody suppression of the protests against Chun's rule.
Read more at: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2019/03/251_265131.html
This is pretty interesting, they are trying a former president concerning a massacre that allegedly happened in 1980 because in his memoirs, the witness said he saw helicopters machine gunning the protesters. I know there was some serious unrest in South Korea at some time around 1980. It sounds like some report did say that this incident did happen so it's a bit of a defamation trial. See article for details.
