🕯 Samchung re-education camp

Fourth Republic of South Korea · Asia · 38.10°N, 127.08°E

The Samchung re-education camp was a South Korean concentration camp set up during the early 1980s under the rule of military dictator Chun Doo-hwan. More than 60,000 people—with estimates up to almost 100,000 people, many of them innocent civilians—were arrested without warrants and faced violent treatment in such camps. The camp was located in Yeoncheon, Gyeonggi Province.

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Country	Fourth Republic of South Korea
Continent / region	Asia
Coordinates (approx.)	38.10°N, 127.08°E · view on map

Samchung re-education camp is located in Fourth Republic of South Korea, in Asia.

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