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Dec 29, 2024 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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US President Jimmy Carter has died.

We do not mourn Jimmy Carter. Today we mourn the 2,000 martyrs of Gwangju, who were slaughtered by the South Korean military regime with the support and knowledge of the Carter Administration.

A South Korean soldier totes an automatic weapon as he guards a group of young people taken prisoner bound together by rope in a single file line. This photo is from the May 27 Gwangju Massacre
On May 17, 1980, Col. Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea declared martial law in the face of a rising movement for democracy led by students and workers.

In the city of Gwangju, students rose up in protest. Soldiers at the scene killed a deaf man, Kim Gyeong Cheol—sparking a rebellion Side by side photograph of Kim Gyeong Cheol with his grave marker. Kim is a young man in his 20s, he is wearing a suit and pinstriped shirt with tie in this black and white photo. His grave bears a cross and has a simple granite marker bearing his name, next to a smaller photograph
The Gwangju Uprising seized control of the city for 9 days. The people of the city formed committees to govern themselves, organizing food distribution, medical aid, self-defense, and more. Many hoped the US would intervene on their behalf.

But the US saw Gwangju as a threat. College students hang out of the side of a bus in liberated Gwangju, they are smiling and waving their hands, visibly joyous
Just a year after the 1979 Revolution in Iran, the US feared losing another vital US asset to a popular uprising.

According to journalist Tim Shorrock (@TimothyS), President Carter determined the rebellion should be crushed militarily on May 22 thenation.com/article/world/…
On May 27, 20,000 South Korean soldiers stormed Gwangju and began a campaign of mass repression. Soldiers butchered people in the streets, disappeared activists, and engaged in rape and sexual torture.

All of this occurred with US knowledge and approval
en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN201810…
In 2023 we sent a delegation to South Korea that visited the May 18th National Cemetery, where 775 martyrs are buried.

There are 67 empty graves for people whose bodies were never found. Many activists claim that at least 2,000 people died in Gwangju. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_e…
🚨CONTENT WARNING: GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF TORTURE AND DEATH

We also visited the 5.18 National Archives and bore witness to the torture and repression inflicted on the people of Gwangju, memorialized in photographs and replicas. Portrait of the corpse of a young man killed by soldiers. His face is covered in blood and his eyes are open. A South Korean flag is draped over his chest.
Replicas of torture show a soldier waving his baton and shouting at a group of four young men, who are forced to assume a stress position where they hold themselves up by their foreheads and their feet while their hands are held behind their backs.
To celebrate Jimmy Carter is to celebrate US imperialism.

Join us instead in celebrating the martyrs of the Gwangju Uprising, who gave everything for our people's liberation. One day Carter's name will mean nothing, but the heroes of Gwangju will live on forever. A group of young men sit atop a seized armored vehicled, looking down at another group of young people who are standing peacefully in the street. All the people in the photograph are wearing civilian clothing.

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#OTD in 1980, the people of #Gwangju rose up against Chun Doo-hwan's military dictatorship, calling for democracy in south Korea.

In response, with a green light from the US, south Korean police & soldiers massacred 2,300 people. We will never forget the martyrs of Gwangju. 🧵 Black and white photo from the student protests. Many people are gathered holding banners and flags, and a person in the middle is waving the south Korean flag.
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