Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) — After occupying Korea illegally in the last century, the Japanese imperialists replaced the residency-general in Korea with the government-general in Korea, a colonial fascist ruling body, and enforced the government-general administration from October 1910.
In the first period of the government-general administration, the Japanese imperialists enforced a military rule based on the gendarme and police system and set up a lot of repressive machinery including police everywhere in Korea to harshly suppress and massacre the Korean people.
It is well proved by the fact that the number of Koreans arrested by the Japanese imperialists in 1918 increased more than ten times as compared with 1912.
The Japanese imperialists kept in force the “Security Law” and “Press Law”, which was enforced with the aim of depriving the Korean people of all their rights and suppressing the anti-Japanese struggle, while cooking up and promulgating new evil laws such as “rally control ordinance”. As a result, the fierce atmosphere of terror politics pervaded the whole of Korea.
Frightened by the towering anti-Japanese sentiment of the Korean people in 1919, the Japanese imperialists replaced the military rule with “cultural rule” and increased the secret police instead of gendarme and police.
They made desperate efforts to force the Korean people to change their names to Japanese ones and obliterate the spoken and written Korean language. Owing to their cruel government-general rule, Korea turned into a veritable hell and a dark land where massacres were rampant.
A website in Latin America carried an article on Japan’s past crimes, noting that although the colonial era existed in human history, only Japan enforced such a heinous predatory policy of depriving the Koreans of their language and names and robbing even bowls and spoons at each home. It revealed that human, material and mental damage the Japanese imperialists inflicted to the Korean people during their colonial rule is countless.
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