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I disagree. "Yesterday," when it lasts from 1953-1979, and involves a dictatorship can be quite fresh in the minds of those who experienced it. Who or what you were yesterday, plays a big role in who you are today. This is exhibited in both govts and people. I'm not going to tell Koreans to get over the Japanese Occupation. I'm not going to tell Tartars to get over Russian oppression, I'm not going to tell old grizzled WW2 vets to forgive the Japanese for their atrocities. I know their history from books, not experience.
Even fresher in their minds is the current regime's mass imprisonment usually followed by killing of those deemed too secularized for the regime's liking. Generally entire families, and for a bonus they gang raped young females before killing them because their brand of Islam holds that virgins automatically go to paradise. As for the current regime, killing every damned one of them seems like a workable answer to me. No, that is NOT a hyperbole.