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State Violence in East Asia (Hardcover)
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State Violence in East Asia (Hardcover)
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
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The world was watching when footage of the "tank man" -- the lone
Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during
the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen
Square -- first appeared in the media. The furtive video is now
regarded as an iconic depiction of a government's violence against
its own people. Throughout the twentieth century, states across
East Asia committed many relatively undocumented atrocities, with
victims numbering in the millions. The contributors to this
insightful volume analyze many of the most notorious cases,
including the Japanese army's Okinawan killings in 1945,
Indonesia's anticommunist purge in 1965--1968, Thailand's Red Drum
incinerations in 1972--1975, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge massacre in
1975--1978, Korea's Kwangju crackdown in 1980, the Philippines'
Mendiola incident in 1987, Myanmar's suppression of the democratic
movement in 1988, and China's Tiananmen incident. With in-depth
investigation of events that have long been misunderstood or kept
hidden from public scrutiny, State Violence in East Asia provides
critical insights into the political and cultural dynamics of
state-sanctioned violence and discusses ways to prevent it in the
future.
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