한국전쟁기 강화도에서의 대량학살사건과 트라우마 = A Study on Civilian Massacre in Ganghwa-Gun during the Korean War

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Ganghwa Island is generally considered as the symbol of Korean people’s resistance against the invasions of foreign powers. Ganghwa History Museum is filled with this history and records and all the spaces of Ganghwa themselves come to be a live historical exhibition.
It was in mid 1990s that a rumor of civilian massacres in Ganghwa-Gun during the Korean War began to loom by one surviving family after the democratization movement in 1987.
According to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, ROK(TRC) built on the 1st of December 2005 and so in the next year, 2006, the 138 victims began to be registrated by around 50 bereaved families in several Ganghwa places during the war. These cases seemed to be underestimated in that Ganghwa’s families often used to argue that there were at least the 500 to 1,000 victims killed in Ganghwa before and during the war.
TRC presented the 2007 project for the investigations of civilian massacres before and during the war in 9 places including Ganghwa by civil specialist researchers. We entered into this project with members of War and Peace Institute of Hansung University for 5 months.
This article is reconstructed on the basis of the report of 2007 investigation on the civilian massacre in Ganghwa during the Korean War. It shows demographic information on the 90 interviewees and the 346 victims, the kinds of violences, many truce-findings, and the estimated 1,500 victims more or less.
Among them, the children and teenagers were 1/10 and women almost halves. These massacres were not simple revenge cases, but ‘Red-hunt’, policide, or a kind of ethnic cleansing against the red suspected. Aggressive subjects were less military soldiers more irregular troops, guerrillas, and anti-communist volunteer youth organizers and they carried out a kind of Red-hunt following 1949 Martial Law, National Security Law based on Anticommunism, whether they knew the contents of these laws, or not. Though a lot of people were killed without the reasons of the death, we may have few chances to find the burial grounds because many of them would be cast to be buried at sea around the islands
The Korean War is not finished to Ganghwa’s people yet, who seem to have the terrible memory of the war and revenge in their consciousness or unconsciousness. It is very important to clarify truth of massacres during the war and restore the honor of victims and the families in order that real reconciliation and peace may take root among them and state.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 머리말
• 2. 연구 조사의 의미와 연구 방법론
• 3. 한국전쟁 전후 시기 강화 지역의 개요
• 4. 조사 결과
• 5. 맺음말: 한국전쟁시기 집단학살사건이 지역사회에 미친 영향과 과제
• Abstract