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The Saga of Providence. 5. President Jung’s Trial and Detention

The movement’s founder was sentenced to a 10-year prison term. His followers maintained he was innocent, and kept the group alive and growing.

During their founder’s detention, members were sustained by their firm belief in his messianic role.

The movement managed to continue and grow notwithstanding the detention of its founder. One of the reasons was his unconventional theology.

While vilified by the media, President Jung’s group expanded in Korea and internationally.

The origins of a Korean new religious movement that, while his founder was in prison for ten years, did not disappear but grew.

International awareness of the mass killings created the conditions for Indian intervention and the end of the war.

One of the goals of the West Pakistanis and their collaborators in 1971 was to exterminate the Hindu community by killing all males.

In a few months, up to three million Bengalis were killed. Yes, it was a genocide.

On March 25, 1971, the Pakistani Army launched “Operation Searchlight.” It should have been a blitzkrieg. It became a genocide.

Elections were postponed due to natural disasters. When they were finally held, they determined an unsolvable crisis in Pakistan.