Aspirations for direct constitutional amendment and democratization abrupted as a nationwide democratization movement in June 1987 as students and citizens witnessed the torture and death of Park Jong-cheol, President Chun Doo-hwan's April 13 constitutional measures to resist amendment and Lee Han-yeol's death by tear gas gun. In the end, Democratic Party candidate Roh Tae-woo gave in to the people's demands for democratization and announced the June 29 Declaration that accepted the direct constitutional amendment. With Lee Han-yeol's burial at the Mangwol-dong graveyard, Gwangju became a sacred place for democratization, where the victims of the national democratization movement hoped for their burial.