지난 4월 16일(2007년) 버지니아
공대에서 일어난 조승희 총기난사 사건은 한국인들에게 많을 것을 생각하게 한다. 가뜩이나 북핵으로 한국인의 이미지가
실추되고 있는 때에 한국인이 학살범이라는 사실은 실로 한국인의 위상에 관련된 문제이다.
그럼에도 요즘 한국 국민의 집단 죄의식이 미국에서 화제가 되고 있다고 한단다. 물론 집단 죄의식 성격이 전혀 없는
것도 아니지만 사실은 책임의 소재를 한국인이 묻는 방식과 더 관련이 있을 것이다. 518광주사태 때 무장폭도들의
폭동 진압작전은 광주시장과 전남치안본부의 요청으로 당시 광주향토사단장 정웅 소장이 결정하였던 것이지, 전두환 당시
보안사령관과는 하등의 관계도 없는 일이었다.
그럼에도, 당시 유언비어 제조기들은 전두환은 군인이니 모든 책임을 혼자 뒤집어쓰라는 식의 논리로 누명을 뒤집어
씌웠으며, 전두환은 침묵으로 일관하였다. 전두환은 왜 침묵하였는가? 그것은 그의 책임감 때문이었다. 그는 연대장
시절, 사병이 쓰러지면 사병의 40킬로그램 군장까지 자기가 대신 지고 선봉에서 뛰던 군인, 장군이 되어서도 낙하
시범을 손수 보였으며, 사단장 시절에 늘 선봉에서 구보하던 장군이었다.
상경하애의 정신이 투철하던 자신의 상관 이희성 대장이든, 혹은 하급 장교이든 누구에게나 불리한 일은 자기가 책임을
다 뒤집어 썼다. 한국인 중에 전두환처럼 책임이 강한 인물도 참으로 드물거니와, 이번 조승희 사태 때는 조승희 한
개인의 범죄에 대해서 민족 전체가 책임감을 느끼고 있는 사실이 주목된다.


There's growing criticism that the
material was made public.
>> This is the riddle behind this
massacre, what turns an awkward smile
into a grimace of death. Is the subject
of this cho's multimedia manifestO.
>>
>> He's actions couldn't been less
religious but his video is littered with
reference to religion. He rails against
christianity but also compares himself
to chrisT.
>> Yes, he clearly identifies with
jesus christ as somebody who is
persecuted. The comparisons to jesus
will strike many offense you have there
shouldn't surprise anyone. According to
glenn wilson the psychiatrist who helped
us to analyse the tape.
>> He mentions christs on a few
occasions paranoid patients. But where
they personality disorder or paranoid
psychosis he's an extremely disturbed
individual. I would expect that there is
some kind of bio chemical or even anton
muscle basis to this.
>> These are that part of the and
that for and aid from the film from
violence. This pose bears a remarkable
violence to old boy a south korean which
is part of a vengeance trilogy. He cast
himself as man.
>> It's a case of the small man
wanting to be big, the ram bow noticed,
wanting to be a super hero, and in fact,
he knew he was none of these things and
andy warhol talked about 15 minutes of
fame. He certainly achieved his
>> There's his obvioussession with
the student who barely spoke otherS.
>> The mood is beginning to change
here on campus, on intrusion into their
grief is being re-sunday the media focus
in recent days has been on the killer
the motives behind his momentous crime
and his legacy on video. Time to refocus
on the people who matter most the
victims and the ones they leave behind.
>> Matt frei reporting therE. Cho
ranted against his fellow students
before he went on the rampage. How they
responded to the video tirade. Our
correspondent jeremy cooke ha
>>
>> A badut also caused more pain for
a community already in agony.
>> When nbs news seung-hui students
across this and took in every detail.
>> It's really disturbing. I
definitely think at some point it should
have been that aire time for the cho
video have provoked a mixed reaction.
For eense of what happened. For others
it focus from their loss and on to the
killer
>> His videos and other material have
been handed over to t f whoayhre
disappointed in the editorial decision
to broadcast these disturbing f the past
few days many students have left and
gone home. A sprawling virginia tech
campus feels empty and subdued. The
grieving here has barely gun. Jeremy
cooke, bbc news, virnge tech.
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