New profile pic is a small graffiti on the ground one can find on the way to the memorial grave(형제비) for "the brothers", 125 people executed, piled up, and burned, during the South Korean government's suppression of the Yeosu Suncheon uprising that happened in 1948,

the year the Republic of Korea was declared in the south. The uprising started on October 19th as a mutiny by the 14th regiment of the National Guard(precurser to the South Korean military proper), going against the orders to deploy to Jeju island, where a full scale rebellion

was raging against the American military's occupation and the general elections being conducted solely in the south. The 2000 soldiers immediately gained popular support and the region around Yeosu started to organize autonomously. However, border clashes on the 38th parralel

meant this rebellion had to be suppressed fast. The rebel's advance was blocked soon after, and the city of Yeosu retaken by government forces in a week. Although the remaining rebels went into the Jiri mountains to continue fighting via guirella war tactics throughout the Korean

War, until they were finally wiped out either through bullets, hunger, or the cold, the bloody precursor to the massacre of The Federation Protecting and Guiding the Public members(보도연맹) was awaiting the civilians left behind.

All the citizens were rounded up in the local elementary school's schoolyard, and whomever the right wing cooperators pointed their fingers at, were taken to behind the building for military trials, most ending with summary executions. Bodies were ditched in the mountains,

ocean, and burned elsewise to the extent where even now, construction sites discover human bones when digging into the mountains. These executions continued daily for three months with the estimation of 15,000 "disappearances", since this massacre has *yet* to be properly

investigated. However, as we are too well aware of recent Korean history, this incident was not an isolated event. The officers responsible for the massacre continued on greatly advancing up in the new army, the army itself was purged(jailed, tortured, executed) of its left wing

elements, martial law itself was devised with these experiences fresh on mark, the infamous National Security Law(criminalizing communists), still in effect to this day, was written soon after. In other words, the active suppression of Yeosu Suncheon rebellion was written into

the very fabric of the newly constituted republic. The trauma of this suppression is best expressed through the popular saying of the older generations, "the angular stone is bound to get chipped off", for all the local authorities, granted popular recognition for resisting and

organising Japanese rule, were all killed off for being left wingers, whether that sentiment was true or not. Considering U.S. involvement(at the least, military consultation), it would not be a stretch to connect the numerous massacres during the Cold War and afterwards

with what happened in the Jeonra region 72 years ago. I end this thread with the final portion of Benjamin's second thesis of history:

"[...] there is a secret protocol between the generations of the past and that of our own. For we have been expected upon this earth. For it has been given us to know, just like every generation before us, a weak messianic power, on which the past has a claim.

This claim is not to be settled lightly. The historical materialist knows why."