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Memories of Chun Doo-hwan (CG)▶ Click here to enlarge
Former President Chun Doo-hwan (89) faced civil and criminal lawsuits shortly after publishing his memoirs in April 2017.
He said: “There was no helicopter fire during the period of the Democratization Movement of May 18”, in the “Age of Chaos”, a memoir composed of three volumes. “Father Jobio (who testified by testifying) is just a blatant liar talking about a priest.”
Furthermore, he defined May 18 as a ‘riot’ and claimed that it was a ‘sacrificial sacrifice for the healing of the Gwangju incident’.
In an interview with Shin Dong-ah in May 2016, Jeon said, “The story (behind the scenes) was the first time I heard a report about the invasion of the North Korean army in 1980,” he said.
However, in a memoir published a year later, “The Gwangju incident was a guerrilla operation by the North Korean special forces”, etc., of more than 15 pages, 5 · 18 was described as an armed situation by North Korea and inevitably repressed the citizens.
Fr. Jobio demands ‘Chun Doo-hwan’s memoirs’▶ Click here to enlarge
The subject of the civil lawsuits was if there was distortion and defamation of the people involved in the first half of May 18, and the criminal case was reduced to the alleged defamation of the late father Jovio, and the shooting from helicopters became a problem .
In June 2017, Father Cho Young-dae, Father Jobio’s nephew, and the May 18 Third Group filed a lawsuit against Jeon and his son Jae-guk Jeon for a temporary court order prohibiting the publication and distribution of memoirs. and claim for damages.
The civil trial court of first instance ruled in favor of some of the plaintiffs, saying that it was recognized that Mr. Chun misrepresented the historically established truth of May 18 and defamed the reputation of the person concerned.
The judiciary considered the 23 accusations described in the memoirs, such as the North Korean intervention, the helicopter shootings, the use of martial law weapons and the raids on the Gwangju prison, as false facts without objective basis, and did not remove some expressions (32 in the first edition and 37 in the second edition). It was decided to prohibit publication and distribution.
However, Chun removed some of the content and republished the memoirs.
In December 2017, the May 18 organization again filed a request for a provisional injunction to prohibit the publication and distribution of “ deleted ” memoirs, and the court decided that the publication and distribution of the deleted edition was also prohibited.
Chun’s legal representative appealed that there was mention of 5 · 18 in the memoirs on the grounds that the victim must be specified for the defamation to be established, but the organization of 5 · 18 is not directly mentioned.
The appeal of the civil lawsuit is currently ongoing in the Gwangju High Court.
The civil suits are expected to continue while the criminal trial and investigation of the Investigative Committee of the Democratization Movement 5 · 18 is observed.
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