4월혁명기 피학살자 기념사업과 그 의미

Abstract

The study explores how the memorial activities for the victims of the massacre in South Korea were launched after the April Revolution (1960) and what it has historically meant. For this purpose, newspapers, private materials by the Bereaved Family Associations (1960-1961), official documents by the National Assembly and the Government, investigative reports by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Korea (2005-2010), etc. were analyzed and this paper was composed of 3 chapters - before the April Revolution, during the April Revolution and after the May 16 coup (1961). After the April Revolution, the Bereaved Family Association was organized. They held a joint memorial service for the victims and built a mass grave. Such memorial activities were not only the funeral for the family but also the stage for disclosing illegality and brutality of the massacre. It menas that these movements broke the taboo of remaining silent on the massacres and challenged the national memory of the Korean War, which had been defined as the struggle against communism.