Year Jung-geun

Ahn Jung-geun is a Korean patriot , born the September 2nd 1879 with Haeju, dead the March 26th 1910.

Officer of the royal army of the IH, it formed an army of guerilla in Mandchourie in 1905, to fight against the Japanese occupation of Korea.

October 26th, 1909, he assassinated with Harbin, when he got out of the train, Hirobumi Itō, resident general Japanese in Korea (which exerted the functions of military governor). The Japanese used this assassination to justify their annexation of Korea in 1910.

Decree then tortured during months, Ahn Jung-geun was hung on March 26th, 1910.

References

  • Chronology of Korea on the Kimsoft site.

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