Images that exposed a bloody crackdown


Retired photojournalist Na at his exhibit of images of the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement in Gwangju.

IT is an iconic image – a black-and-white photo of a blood-splattered student being clubbed by a paratrooper medic.

It was the first photo to slip through the military cordon around Gwangju, South Korea, in 1980, exposing the brutal suppression of what would be known as the Gwangju Democratisation Movement.

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