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English: As the pro-democracy movement sparked by the expulsion of opposition leader Kim Young-sam intensified, the government finally declared martial law. The paratroopers rushed at young people unconditionally, hitting them with bats and trampling them with their feet whenever young people gathered in groups of two or three.
Date Taken on 20 October 1979
Source https://archive.much.go.kr/archive/publicationRead/InfoDetailInqire.do?publicationId=PLCT_0000000072&pmcd=PTB&pageIndex=1
Author Photos taken by 전민조 and hosted by the National Museum of Contemporary Korean History .

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Airborne troops entering Masan as martial law is declared

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