Typical of them was massacre of Korean people who rose up in the March First Popular Resistance in 1919.

The Koreans suffered bitter humiliation and maltreatment under the barbarous "military rule" of the Japanese imperialists, and at last their pent-up resentment and rancor developed into a nation-wide resistance on March 1, 1919.

The participants in the resistance valiantly fought in defiance of the harsh suppression by the Japanese army and police, chanting "Independence of Korea!" and "Japanese and their army, go home!"

This uprising spread throughout 13 provinces of the country including Pyongyang and Seoul.

The Japanese imperialists hurled the 19th and 20th Divisions of the Japanese army and police forces present in Korea at that time into crackdown on peaceful demonstrators and shipped into Korea six battalions and many military policemen from their proper. All ruling tools and repressive means were employed to quell the resistance.

They set fire to 317 houses in 15 villages and murdered more than 1 000 inhabitants in Suwon County, Kyonggi Province, alone.

They turned Pyongyang and Seoul into a sea of blood and slaughtered 60 odd people in Maengsan County, South Phyongan Province early in March.

They also shot to death at least 500 in Jongju of North Phyongan Province and 150 in Milyang of South Kyongsang Province.

The number of people killed by the Japanese imperialists in the whole period of the uprising totaled some 100 000.

Meanwhile 587 640 people had been arrested from March 1 to the end of May.

Those figures go to clearly show the cruelty of the Japanese imperialists who mercilessly trampled down the elementary political freedom and rights of the Korean people and their right to existence.