Court dismisses indictments vs Jeju massacre survivors after over 70 years

SEOUL---The district court on the southern island of Jeju on Thursday dismissed the charges against over a dozen survivors of a bloody 1948-1954 government-civilian clash, effectively ruling them not guilty of mutiny after 71 years. The Jeju District Court made the landmark decision in a retrial involving 18 survivors, including 99-year-old Lim Chang-eui. The ruling essentially quashes the convictions handed down by a military court in 1949, as it means the court is revoking the initial indictments on grounds of procedural errors in the court proceedings and that there are insufficient grounds to try the defendants. The Jeju massacre was a government-civilian conflict that l...

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