And she wasn’t cut in half she was decapitated.

Lol.

BTW, a number of popular movies about the Gwangju Massacre have been made and released in South Korea over the years. Jang Sun-woo’s “A Petal” (1996) is an excellent film to start with for those interested.

Just out of curiosity, can any of the Party stooges in this thread tell me if there have been any feature films about Tiananmen produced in China?

A Google search for “Kwangju” — the standard romanization of the city until recently — and “www.nytimes.com” brings up over a million results. Enter “Gwangju” and “www.nytimes.com” and you’ll find even more. A sample title from 1996: “The People of Kwangju Recall 1980 Massacre.”

Have you ever heard of that amazing tool called Google? Probably not, because it takes a brain — and not just a feeble-minded agenda — to actually use it.

I know several Western correspondents who were in Korea at the time of the Gwangju Massacre and who covered it for major newspapers back home. It was a huge story, and has been widely covered in the Western media in the years since then.

Moreover, Gwangju helped inspire the protesters in Beijing nine years later. As a well-known anarchist scholar on a Korean Studies Listserve recently wrote, “Gwangju inspired activists in Tiananmen Square. At least one photo book was circulated among student leaders during the occupation by a Korean student then studying at Beijing U.”

Thank you for playing. Better luck next time!

You starting to see now? It’s all the CCP’s hands

I see, so China only releases archives from its troubled past that it feels might be accepted and supported by the US? How touching!

It could – but it won’t. Why? Shame and embarrassment. C’mon Fred – if the party were proud that it had done the right thing it would be trumpeting it from the rooftops, not desperately attempting to erase all mention of the incident even quarter of a century later. Guilty conscience? I think so.

China could release the archives of everything tomorrow, and because it highly contrasts the US narrative of what happens, it would be dismissed and mocked. So there’s really no point in bothering with it at all.

Gwangju was by far the largest mass killing of demonstrators in the 1980s in South Korea. A few university students in Seoul died later on during clashes with police, but their memory still lives on strongly in South Korea as well. In other words, South Korea has taken full account of what happened in the past on its road to democracy, so there is no real “story” there these days as far as Western journalists are concerned. The situation is quite different in China, which is obviously why the story still resonates for many around the world.

Tiananmen is a still-potent symbol because the struggle for democracy in China, which is what it represents after all, has yet to be won. There’s a simple way to drain much of the potency of that symbol, but the CCP is clearly lacks the courage and integrity to do so.

Shame on them, I say. Shame on them.