It was confirmed that Roh Tae-woo, who died on the 26th, cannot be buried in a national cemetery.
According to the National Cemetery Act, an official from the Ministry of Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs, who oversees the burial, said on the same day. <오마이뉴스>In a phone call with, he said, “I am not eligible to be buried in a national cemetery under the National Cemetery Act.”
In the ‘Act on the Establishment and Operation of National Cemeteries’, one of the reasons for not being able to be buried in a national cemetery is ‘a case in which imprisonment or imprisonment without prison labor is confirmed for crimes of civil war or foreign exchange’. Roh Tae-woo, along with Chun Doo-hwan, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the 12/12 and 5/18 civil wars and military rebellion, and was stripped of former presidential courtesy. In addition, the qualification to be buried at the National Cemetery has also disappeared.
However, since then, a special pardon has led to a controversy over the qualifications for burial at the national cemetery. In response to this, the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, in response to a question from Rep. Cheon Jeong-bae of the Party for Democracy and Peace in 2019, gave a legal interpretation saying, “Even if pardon or lottery is granted, the crime remains, so it is impossible to be buried.”
This interpretation of Roh Tae-woo’s burial qualifications at the National Cemetery will have an impact on Chun Doo-hwan, Lee Myung-bak, and Park Geun-hye.
Currently, the Seoul National Cemetery is full, and a cemetery for the head of state has been built in Daejeon Cemetery. An official from the Daejeon Cemetery said, “Currently, there are no instructions regarding Roh Tae-woo’s death from the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, which oversees the memorial.”
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