Asia's Unknown Uprisings Volume 1 by Katsiaficas George
Author:Katsiaficas, George
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PM Press
Published: 2012-03-08T16:00:00+00:00
The Final Days
At dawn on May 26, more than a dozen tanks crushed militia barricades on the outskirts of the city and began to rumble toward Province Hall. When they heard the news, seventeen distinguished citizens, including members of the CSC, were in the midst of an all-night meeting. They resolved to embark on what became known as “The March of Death” to stop the tanks. Heroically underway for an hour, they drew hundreds of others with them. When they found the tanks, they sat down in the street to stop them from advancing. They told an army general that he would have to kill them first if his troops wanted to attack the city. Their courageous sit-in protest raised people’s spirits and delayed the military’s final assault.
Hearing from loudspeaker trucks that the army was entering the city, about thirty thousand people gathered around the fountain in Democracy Plaza. By 11:30 a.m., when the rally convened, news of the “March of Death” filled people with hope that the military might yet listen to reason. That morning, a large poster had been prominently displayed announcing that the U.S. aircraft carrier Coral Sea had entered Korean waters. Wiser heads silently understood it as an ominous portent, but many people believed that the Americans were coming to assist their struggle for democracy. At the rally, the new CSSC leadership read the “Resolution of 800,000 Gwangju Citizens” in which they promised to fight to the end. They called for a democratic government of national salvation, a demand that went far beyond asking the military to apologize for their transgressions, or for the dictatorship to promise not to punish people. This new strident demand reflected the uprising’s original aims—to overturn martial law and to establish democracy. At the end of the rally, hundreds of high school students chanted “We Refuse to Return Weapons!” and led a march through the city.
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