[2. An excerpt from "Operation 80518", author Jeong Dam, Cheong Chok Mo Book Publisher / 2. "작계 80518"에서의 발췌내용, 저자 정담, 도서출판 청척모]
- hallsmanilow
- Dec 27, 2024
- 3 min read
Updated: Jan 20
시위 군중들이 진압 공수부대를 도청으로 몰아넣고, 저녁 무렵 무장 시위대가 갑자기 들이닥쳐 주민들에게 포위되어 갇혀 있는 공수부대에게 집중사격을 하게 되면 진압 공수부대를 전멸시킬 수가 있게된다. 전멸된 공수부대 무장을 노획해 곧바로 야음을 틈타 대전으로 진격하기만 하면 임무가 끝나기에 회의장에 있는 모든 참모들과 여장 지휘관(리을설)은 얼굴을 마주보고 있다가 여장 지휘관(리을설)의 손짓으로 조용히 해산하고 각자 정해진 자기들 위치로 향했다. (p. 43)
The protesting crowds drive the riot airborne into the provincial government office, and when the armed protesters suddenly swoop in in the evening and open fire on the trapped airborne troops surrounded by the civilians, the riot airborne troops can be wiped out. After looting the weapons of the destroyed airborne troops and immediately advancing into Daejeon under the cover of night, the mission would be completed, and all the officers in the meeting room and the female commander (Li Eul Seol) stood face to face, and with a wave of the female commander's hand, they quietly dispersed and headed to their respective positions.
잠시 후 1제대 조장에게 보고가 들어왔는데, 드디어 사망자가 발생을 했다는 것이었다. 광주 버스터미널에서 공수부대원이 버스를 타려고 온 광주 청년을 진압봉으로 머리를 때려 두개골이 골절되어 광주통합병원으로 실려 갔는데, 죽은 것 같다고 했다. 그리고 나주에 가 있던 다른 조장도 정확하게 오전 10시에 작전이 개시되어 나주에도 봉기가 일어나 작전 계획대로 잘 진행되고 있는데, 나주에는 경찰 병력이 거의 없고 군 병력도 없기에 아무런 문제가 없을 것이라고 했다. 아침부터 희소식을 보고받은 여장 지휘관(리을설)은 여장을 한 얼굴에 미소를 띠고 두 주먹에 힘을 주고 승리를 다짐하면서 일단 '광주 시내에서 가열차게 공수부대를 몰아붙여야 한다'는 생각을 굳히고 광주 시내 상황을 확인하고 있었다. (p. 43-44)
After a while, the 1st Battalion commander reported that there had finally been a fatality. At the bus terminal in Gwangju, a member of the airborne unit hit a young man in Gwangju who was trying to take a bus with a riot baton and fractured his skull, and he was taken to Gwangju Integration Hospital, where he was believed to be dead. Another officer who was in Naju also reported that the operation had started at exactly 10 a.m. and that the uprising in Naju was going well according to the plan, and that there would be no problem because there were few police and no military troops in Naju. After receiving the good news in the morning, the cross-dressing commander (Li Eulsul), with a smile on his cross-dressing face, clenched his fists and vowed victory, and was checking the situation in Gwangju city, deciding that he should 'drive the airborne troops feverishly in Gwangju city'. (p. 43-44)

오전 11시경, 4천여 명의 학생들이 금난로에 모여, "경상도 출신 계엄군이 광주시민을 다 죽이려 한다"는 구호를 외치며 저지 경찰관들에게 화염병을 투척하고 각목과 쇠파이프로 경찰관들을 폭행하면서 차량 10여 대를 빼앗아 불을 지르는 작전이 성공적으로 끝났다고 보고를 받았다.
이제 이 작전을 시작으로 수적으로 열세인 공수부대를 몰아붙여 도청 안으로 가두어 놓기만 하면 되는 상황이 전개되는데, 전교사쪽 보고는 공수부대가 "진압을 포기하고 구조요청을 하고있다"는 내용이기에 여장 지휘관(리을설)은 옆에 있던 부관에게 다음 작전을 개시하라고 지시했다. 1전대가 오후부터 "공수대원이 이화여대생으로 보이는 여학생 3명의 팬티와 브래지어까지 모두 찢어내고 구둣발로 엉덩이를 찬 후 대검으로 등을 찔러 죽였다", "공수대원이 광주 수창초등학교 앞 전봇대에 산사람을 거꾸로 매달았다", "어제 40명의 시위학생이 죽어 금남로가 피바다가 됐다", "공수대원들이 젊은 놈들은 모조리 죽여버리고 광주시민 70%를 죽여도 좋다, 개 몇 마리 잡았느냐고 농담을 한다"라는 등의 악성 유언비어를 살포하기 시작했다. (pp.44-45)
At around 11 a.m., 4,000 students gathered around a golden stove, chanted (a slogan of) "Martial law troops from Gyeongsangbuk-do are trying to kill all the people of Gwangju," threw Molotov cocktails at riot repellant police officers, assaulted the officers with clubs and metal pipes, took away 10 cars, and set them on fire.
Now all that was left to do was to overwhelm the outnumbered airborne troops and trap them inside the provincial govenmental office building, but the report from the Army Training Corps was that the airborne troops were "giving up the fight and calling for help," so the cross-dressing commander (Li Eul Seol) instructed her second-in-command next to her to initiate the next operation. Starting in the afternoon the 1st squadron began to spread the malicious rumors that "Airborne troopers ripped off the panties and bras of three female students who appeared to be Ewha Womans University students, kicked them in the buttocks with their feet, and stabbed them in the back with a bayonet", "Airborne troopers hung a man upside down from a telephone pole in front of Suchang Elementary School in Gwangju.", "Yesterday, 40 protest students were killed and Geumnam-ro became a bloodbath," and "The airborne soldiers killed all the young people and joked that it was okay to kill 70% of Gwangju's residents and how many dogs they caught." (pp.44-45)
Note: had to edit and CORRECT some of the original English translation for this particular episode done by DeepL which was inaccurate and out of context.
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