During the day I carved wood in the workshop, and at night I returned to the house and read oral testimonies. With each item, I made sure to cross-check and confirm with the data I had on others who had died. I retraced the sequence of events through U.S. Army records that had been declassified and made accessible after fifty years, the press reports of the time, the lists of prisoners from Jeju who had been incarcerated without trial between 1948 and 1949, and witness accounts and images of the 1950 Bodo League mass killings. At some point, as the materials piled up and began to take on a
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