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S Korea dictator's grandson sorry for 1980 Gwangju crackdown

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S Korea dictator's grandson sorry for 1980 Gwangju crackdown

The grandson of South Korea's last dictator has apologised to relatives of those killed in a brutal military crackdown in 1980. Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer". The city of Gwangju was the centre of
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