An interesting piece from the The New York Times about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and the fact that with the hot potato politics of late, neither an agreement on “truth” or coming to “reconciliation” seem possible soon. (HT to Vacilando)
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Thank you for the article link.
It was sad to read of the Venerable Bogwang’s plight. The inability of many to look back upon those times without rancor is why Park Guen Hye will run into trouble in running for president, even though the Venerable’s unjust torture was at the hands of Chun Doo-hwan’s regime.
If only we could stop opening these ancient wounds and get back to the far more relevant issue which governments should be focusing their efforts on: what the Japanese did 60 years ago.
Remember how the Korean cops couldn’t find the police officer who was the top ‘interrogator’ in the 70’s and 80’s after a warrant was put out for him after Kim Young Sam’s election? People would call in with tips saying they had seen him walking outside his house in Seoul, but the cops rarely went to check. On the half-dozen occasions that they did, they didn’t bother to look into the storage space in his home’s washroom. Had the higher ranking officers not prevented the younger ones from doing so, they would have found that this was where the fugitive was hiding. The cops finally arrested the criminal after Kim Dae Jung was elected.
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