Why does grass tremble? Just because of the wind? There must be a reason why insects and animals are behaving unusually
On April 30th, 1977, 14 mothers sent a letter to President Videla, the military dictator of Argentina, inquiring where their missing children were; later, they began a silent march at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires.
And on May 18th, 1980, in South Korea, the citizens of Gwangju rose up against the new martial law government.
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Why does grass tremble? Just because of the wind? There must be a reason why insects and animals are behaving unusually
On April 30th, 1977, 14 mothers sent a letter to President Videla, the military dictator of Argentina, inquiring where their missing children were; later, they began a silent march at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires.
And on May 18th, 1980, in South Korea, the citizens of Gwangju rose up against the new martial law government.
The histories of Argentina and Gwangju, South Korea, two places on the opposite side of the globe, are mirror images of the other: both are stories of brutality and massacres, inflicted upon human beings by other human beings during the military rule in the 1970s and 80s. “I am scared of people forgetting us,” says one grandmother who lost her son during the May 18 Democratic Uprising of Gwangju.
We listen to the accounts of the grandmothers who have been protesting for 1000 days to preserve the former Jeonnam Provincial Government Building, the site and evidence of the May 18 Uprising. We also listen to the witnesses recounting their memories of abductions, imprisonments, deaths, and disappearances that happened during the military dictatorship era (1976-1983) in Argentina. At the Ex-ESMA (the former naval academy), one of the sites of sless