광주 학살의 내재성 - 쿠데타, 베트남전쟁, 내전

Abstract

In Gwangju, 5·18 The brutality of the airborne troops is staged in two coups, the 5.16 coup and the 12.12 coup, which enabled the military to intervene in politics. But the more direct cause is the Vietnam War. Political officers and officers of the airborne unit have gained combat experience by participating in the Vietnam War, while guerrilla warfare, in which the enemy and allies are indistinguishable, justified terrorism and genocide against civilians. In particular, on-site commanders and sergeant officers carried out arbitrary summary and retaliatory killings in the process of the outer blockade that isolates Gwangju. From the perspective of military rebels and airborne troops, 5·18 was a civil war with the enemy. Gwangju citizens were enemies, not the same people or nation, and brutality was tolerated in the civil war with the enemy. But it was an imagined civil war. Gwangju citizens did not regard the airborne troops as enemies, nor did they try to annihilate soldiers despite their armament. As such, two coups, the Vietnam War and the imagined civil war were forming the immanence of the Gwangju massacre.