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The Jeju Uprising was a rebellion on the Korean province of Jeju Island that lasted from April 3, 1948 until May 1949. The main cause for the rebellion was elections scheduled for May 10, 1948 designed by the United Nations Temporary Commission on Korea (UNTCOK) to create a new government for all of Korea. The elections, however, were only planned for the south of the country, the half of the peninsula under UNTCOK control. Fearing the elections would further reinforce division, guerrilla fighters for the South Korean Labor party (SKLP) reacted violently, attacking local police and rightist youth groups stationed on Jeju Island.〔〔 Though atrocities were committed by both sides, the methods used by the South Korean government to suppress the rebels were especially cruel.〔〔 On one occasion, American soldiers discovered the bodies of ninety-seven men, women, and children, killed at the hand of government forces. On another, American soldiers caught government police forces in the act of carrying out a gruesome execution of seventy-six villagers, including women and children.〔 In the end, about 30,000 people died as a result of the rebellion, or 10% of the island’s total population.〔〔Some 40,000 others fled to Japan to escape the fighting.〔 In the decades after the uprising, memory of the event was brutally suppressed by the government through strict punishment.〔 Only in 2006, more than 60 years after the rebellion, did the Korean government finally apologize for its role in the killings. Although the government simultaneously promised reparations, as of 2010, nothing has been done to this end. ==Background== After Japan surrendered to Allied forces on 15 August 1945, Korea's 35 years of Japanese occupation finally came to an end. Korea was subsequently divided at the 38th parallel, however, with the Soviet Union assuming trusteeship north of the line and the United States south of the line. In September 1945, Lt. General John R. Hodge established a military government to administer the southern region, which included Jeju Island. In December 1945 the U.S. met with the Soviet Union and United Kingdom to work out joint trusteeship. Due to lack of consensus, however, the U.S. took the “Korean question” to the United Nations for further deliberation. On November 14, 1947, the United Nations passed UN Resolution 112, calling for a general election on May 10, 1948 under UNTCOK supervision. Fearing it would lose influence over the northern half of Korea if it complied, the Soviet Union rejected the UN resolution and denied the UNTCOK access to the northern part of Korea. The UNTCOK nevertheless went through with the elections, albeit in the southern half of the country only. The Soviet Union responded to these elections in the south with an election of its own in the north on August 25, 1948. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeju Uprising」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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