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Remembering the tradition of the oppressed: The Kwangju Uprising (1980)

It wasn’t as though we didn’t know how overwhelmingly the army outnumbered us. But the strange thing was, it didn’t matter. Ever since the uprising began, I’d felt something coursing through me, as overwhelming as any army. Conscience. Conscience, the … Continue reading

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