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Overview
Overview
Goals
- Permanent respond and inform the truth to eliminate distortions and denigrations of The May 18 Pro-democracy Movement.
- Identify those who are ordered to fire, investigate the dark burial and missing persons, shoot helicopters and find out the facts of unsolved tasks.
Main Projects
- Taking legal actions against historical distortion of the May 18
- Monitoring of historical distortion against the May 18 : Website, Media, and Youtube.
- Collecting oral histories from soldiers, army officers, witnesses, and survivors of the May 18.
- Management of Advisory Committee for the May 18 Truth Finding
- Receive calls from people who witnessed the May 18 : 93 cases (including 48 cases which were reported by citizens in 2017)
Performance
Project Performance
| Projects | Period | Performance |
|---|---|---|
| Taking legal actions against historical distortion of the May 18 | January 2018 to December 2018 |
- Applied for an injunction to the court to stop Chun Doohwan's revised memoirs to be published and distributed, and put in a claim for its damages - Sued Chun Doohwan for libel against Father Cho Pius - Sued Ji Manwon for libel against Gwangju - Proceeds with a lawsuit against Ji Manwon and his website Newstown, seeking an injunction against the issuance and distribution of the newstown. - Put in a claim against Ji Manwon and his making videos to distort the historical fact of the May 18 and its damages |
| Monitoring of historical distortion against the May 18 | January 2018 to December 2018 |
- Continues Monitoring (with the Association of Democratic Media Movement) : 36 cases - Special Articles Monitoring : 41 cases |
| Truth Finding | January 2018 to December 2018 |
- Focused Research on Truth Finding and Historical Distortion (with Part-time Researchers) : 3 research projects - Collecting oral histories : 81 cases (including 48 cases that we received in 2017) - Received calls from people on secret burial during the May 18 : 12 cases |
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