Chun Doo-hwan is to face another trial over the deadly crackdown on protestors in the southern city of Gwangju in 1980.
The Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office has indicted the former leader on charges of defaming the victims of the revolt as well as their families.
Chun is accused of writing false accounts about the victims and the crackdown in a memoir published last year.
He is also accused of denying claims by witnesses that his government used military choppers.
But, prosecutors said confidential documents from the U.S. Embassy in South Korea... as well as the results of a probe by the defense ministry earlier this year... confirmed the chopper attacks did take place.
This comes 23 years since Chun last stood trial... and was found guilty of mutiny and corruption. Given his advanced age of 87... prosecutors have decided not to detain the former president.
The Gwangju Uprising resulted in more than 2 hundred people killed and over 43-hundred wounded.