State Violence in East Asia

Contents

contents Note on Romanization vii Abbreviations ix Introduction: Conceiving State Violence, Justice, and Transition in East Asia 1 Sung Chull Kim and N. Ganesan 1. Interpreting State Violence in Asian Settings 19 Vince Boudreau 2. From the Streets to the National Assembly: Democratic Transition and Demands for Truth about Kwangju in South Korea 47 Namhee Lee 3. Unsettled State Violence in Japan: The Okinawa Incident 75 Hayashi Hirofumi 4. Popular Views of State Violence in China: The Tiananmen Incident 105 Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Kate Merkel-Hess 5. Mass Atrocities in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge Reign of Terror 129 Sorpong Peou 6. Counterrevolutionary Violence in Indonesia 159 Douglas Kammen 7. Getting Away with Murder in Thailand: State Violence and Impunity in Phatthalung 185 Tyrell Haberkorn 8. The End of an Illusion: The Mendiola Massacre and Political Transition in Post-Marcos Philippines 209 Rommel A. Curaming 9. The Four-Eights Democratic Movement and Political Repression in Myanmar 231 Kyaw Yin Hlaing Conclusion: Comparing State Violence and Reconciliation across East Asia 257 N. Ganesan and Sung Chull Kim Acknowledgments 279 List of Contributors 281 Index 285 ...