[KS] Naming Kwangju, May 1980

[Henny Savenije]

At 10:05 ¿ÀÈÄ 2011-11-15, you wrote:
>That "usual" definition may be true, but there's 
>no question the Chun regime was the authority 
>whether you liked it or not. I'm aware that 
>academics love to quibble over the word, but 
>nonethless you can't get away from it. It's not 
>meant as approbation of the regime, or criticism 
>of the rebels (you may not like that word 
>either). It's just what it was, plain and 
>simple, regardless of the nature of the regime and the response.
>Don

Doesn't "revolt" refer to what the people did and 
"massacre" to what the military did?. "Uprising" 
does seem a bit too tame for me too.


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