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Korean laborers in Yokohama had joined a dockworkers union led by the Japanese organizer Yamaguchi Seiken. Yamaguchi was a left-wing organizer and at the May Day rally in 1920, some of his union members had shouted anti-colonial slogans; Japanese police responded with arrests and abuse.
The Japanese army surrounded and attacked the Korean village, gathered all the men in one place and massacred them with guns or spears, and raped and killed the women on sight. In addition, they burned all the houses and looted the livestock, turning the village into ruins. [5] [4]
The Jeamni Massacre (Korean: 제암리 학살 사건; lit. Jeamni Massacre Incident) was a mass murder of 20 to 30 unarmed Korean civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army on April 15, 1919, in Jeamni, Suwon, Korea, Empire of Japan.
In Japan, attitudes toward Koreans were deeply shaped by the Nissen dōsoron (日鮮同祖論, "Theory of Japanese-Korean Common Ancestry"), which claimed Koreans and Japanese shared mythological ancestors: Susanoo (Koreans) and Amaterasu (Japanese). According to this theory, Koreans were inherently Japanese, though unaware of their true identity.
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," [22] which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, [23] including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Korea under Japanese rule: Imperial Japanese Army: 7,509 15,849 Koreans wounded [8] 15 April 1919: Jeamni massacre: Hwaseong, Chōsen: Imperial Japanese Army 29 Killing of Korean civilians inside a church in Hwaseong October 1920: Gando massacre: Jiandao: Imperial Japanese Army 5,000+ [9] July 1922: Shinano River incident: Shinano River: Okura ...
National Bodo League members identity card. South Korean President Syngman Rhee had [year needed] about 300,000 suspected communist sympathizers or his political opponents enrolled in an official "re-education" movement known as the National Bodo League [8] (or National Rehabilitation and Guidance League, National Guard Alliance, [9] National Guidance Alliance, [10] Gukmin Bodo Yeonmaeng, [9 ...
In 2005–2010, a South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigated atrocities and other human rights violations through much of the 20th century, from the Japanese colonial period through the Korean War and beyond. It excavated some mass graves from the Bodo League massacres and confirmed the general outlines of those political ...