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...Hur then heard from privates at the base that his son might have been killed by fellow soldiers at a drunken party. Further inquiries ran into a wall of silence?which 16 years later, the still grieving father hoped would finally crumble when President Kim Dae Jung set up a presidential commission to investigate suspicious deaths under Korea's authoritarian regimes. Like similar panels set up in post-apartheid South Africa and post-junta Argentina, the commission was supposed to set the record straight and heal the wounds of the past. From Park Chung Hee's coup in 1961 until...
...When Hur Yong Chun saw his son's corpse lying on a wooden stretcher on the morning of April 3, 1984, it had two bullet holes in the chest and one in the forehead. According to a forensic expert at the army base where Hur's son was doing military service, it was a case of suicide. But Hur wondered if it was possible to shoot yourself three times with a rifle. Then Hur asked why blood around the wound on the right side of his son's chest was black and coagulated, while blood around the other two bullet...
...prestigious Seoul University. According to the KCIA, Choi jumped out of a seventh floor window at the agency's headquarters in 1973 rather than disclose details of a spy ring in South Korea. The commission determined that Choi died under torture or was thrown out of a window. For Hur Yong Chun, the process provided some of the answers he's sought for more than 18 years. After hearing closed-door testimony from men who were at the base, the commission found that a drunken sergeant identified only as Roh?a common surname in South Korea?accidentally shot Hur...
AILING. CHARLTON HESTON, 78, imposing star of such Hollywood epics as Ben-Hur and The Ten Commandments, conservative political spokesman and, since 1998, president of the National Rifle Association, who revealed that his doctors have said he has symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease. In a taped address announcing his struggle with Alzheimer's, Heston lamented, "For an actor, there is no greater loss than the loss of his audience. I can part the Red Sea, but I can't part with...
...took roll call in the Cabot blocking group of Christopher Shim ’02-’03, it would go like this: Choi, Chung, Hur, Kim, Kim, Kim, Kwak, Kwok, Lee, Lim, Myung, Shim, Zymaris. A string of mostly Korean names. Being Korean is a part of the members’ identities, Shim says, but far from the only part. “People don’t believe me when I say we really didn’t plan it to be like this,” Shim says. “At the first blocking meeting...