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Democratic Nations Have Always Prospered, Term Paper

'Although these groups had different interests and goals, their mobilization and protests converged on the strategy of the opposition to the inhumane ruling of the military government' (Arifah, 2005), and this common understanding enthralled them with the spirit and motivation to demand political justice for themselves through implementation of democratic principles. It was observed that the government adopted discriminatory attitude and practiced violence against 'the protector generated righteous indignation and humanitarian concerns among progressive local population' (Charles, 2002), this further ignited their cause for the democratic reforms in the country. During 1980s a blood massacre took place at Kwangju which transformed the spirit and the practices launched for the implementation of the democratic reforms, the massacre 'radicalized and cross-fertilized the labor, student, church, and women's movements against military rule' (Charles, 2002). After the massacre the local population approved the radical Minjung ideology which demanded a rapid transition to the democratic principles. The local population assumed and exercised the 'theoretical and political orientations of...

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A general observation regarded the local population, in particular the women community as the victim of oppression, and it was noted that the local population was not granted any privilege that were enjoyed in other independent countries of Europe and America.
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Dr. Salahuddin Aminuzzaman. A Regional Overview Report on National Integrity Systems in South Asia. Department of Development Studies University of Dhaka Bangladesh. 2004

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Jeong Lim Nam. Gender Politics in the Korean Transition to Democracy. Korean Studies. University of Hawaii Press. 2000

Arifah Rahmawati, Najib Azca. Police Reform from Below: Examples from Indonesia's Transition to Democracy. Center for Security and Peace Studies, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia. 2005

Dr. Salahuddin Aminuzzaman. A Regional Overview Report on National Integrity Systems in South Asia. Department of Development Studies University of Dhaka Bangladesh. 2004

David Martin Jones. Democratization, Civil Society and the Pacific Asian Nouveaux Riches. Polity Press. 1997
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