Significant1948 – 1949 · 1 year

Jeju uprising

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
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Jeju Island · South Korea

Estimated casualties

14K – 30Kestimated dead

Official commission identified 14,373 victims; total death toll estimated up to 30,000.

SOURCEscholarly

An insurrection and brutal counterinsurgency on South Korea's Jeju Island from April 1948 to May 1949, in which leftist rebels rose against the US-backed government and elections. Security forces caused the overwhelming majority of an estimated 14,000–30,000 deaths.

Belligerents2

South Korea (with US military government)
Communist-led insurgents (SKLP)

Sources

Wikipedia: Jeju uprising
UCDP Conflict Encyclopedia
Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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