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AP IMPACT: Thousands Killed By U.S.'s Korean Ally




Topic started on 18-5-2008 @ 10:27 PM by DimensionalDetective


AP IMPACT: Thousands Killed By U.S.'s Korean Ally


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Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.

With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean invaders pushed down the peninsula, the southern army and police emptied South Korean prisons, lined up detainees and shot them in the head, dumping the bodies into hastily dug trenches. Others were thrown into abandoned mines or into the sea. Women and children were among those killed. Many victims never faced charges or trial.

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reply posted on 18-5-2008 @ 10:27 PM by DimensionalDetective


Yikes...This is absolutely horrific. And it sounds like it has been effectively supressed and covered up for decades. 100,000 people executed and murdered. The things humans do to one another are absolutely disgusting at times.



The mass executions — intended to keep possible southern leftists from reinforcing the northerners — were carried out over mere weeks and were largely hidden from history for a half-century. They were "the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War," said historian Kim Dong-choon, a member of a 2-year-old government commission investigating the killings.

Through the postwar decades of South Korean right-wing dictatorships, victims' fearful families kept silent about that blood-soaked summer. American military reports of the South Korean slaughter were stamped "secret" and filed away in Washington. Communist accounts were dismissed as lies.

Only since the 1990s, and South Korea's democratization, has the truth begun to seep out.

Hundreds of sets of remains have been uncovered so far, but researchers say they are only a tiny fraction of the deaths. The commission estimates at least 100,000 people were executed, in a South Korean population of 20 million.




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reply posted on 22-5-2008 @ 04:35 AM by RabbitChaser


My thought here is... when something like this finally comes to light... how many other atrocities are still out there in the dark? And even more discerning, how many will be attempted to be carried out in the future... when we continue to be lead by this band of criminals we call politicians.

It should make everyone feel that reading about history thru a book is nothing but a waste of time. Especially when trying to learn about what role was played by the side that 'wrote' the book.



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