Did Americans Mass-Murder Korean Women and Kids?


Did Americans Mass-Murder Korean Women and Kids?

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Picasso's famous painting of Korean women and children being butchered by white men - courtesy of Goyatobeijing.org

US Archives - Smoking Gun - on Mass Killings in South Korea
THE KOREA INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL: The Final Judgment - The Members of the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, having considered the Indictment for Offenses Committed by the Government of the United States of America Against the People of Korea, 1945-2001.
Revelations Continue to Mount of U.S. War Crimes in Korea - Summary Report of U.S. Veterans Delegation to Korea, August 2 - 9, 2001, a project of the Korea Truth Commission (KTC) planned with members of Veterans For Peace (VFP). Yoomi Jeong, Deputy Secretary General, Korea Truth Commission, served as guide and translator. The No Gun Ri Report (complete)
U.S. No Gun Ri Conclusion Denounced - The Army's conclusion that no orders were given to American soldiers to kill civilians at No Gun Ri during the Korean War is being challenged by South Korean survivors and family members, who denounced the finding as a "whitewash."
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE STATEMENT ON NO GUN RI - The White House released a statement by President Clinton that expresses the United States' deepest sorrow, regret, and sympathy to the survivors and the victims' families for the events that transpired at No Gun Ri, and for their anguish during their long effort to gain acknowledgment of that tragedy.
Statement of Mutual Understanding Between the United States and the Republic of Korea on the No Gun Ri Investigations - In the desperate opening weeks of defensive combat in the Korean War, U.S. soldiers killed or injured an unconfirmed number of Korean refugees in the last week of July 1950 during a withdrawal under pressure in the vicinity of No Gun Ri.
Rethinking The Nogun-ri Massacre on the 50th Anniversary of the Outbreak of the Korean War - Rev. Sung Yong Park
Orders To Fire On Korean Civilians? (CBS) - "The Army has requested that we strafe all civilian refugee parties. . . approaching our positions... To date, we have complied." USAF Col. Turner Rogers' memo
New Evidence Challenges No Gun Ri Massacre Charges - The Stars and Stripes investigation disputes the massacre allegation
Saga of Korean Slaughter Wins Pulitzer -- This year's Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting went to The Associated Press for its reporting of an alleged massacre of hundreds of civilians by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War.
War Crinimals or War Heroes? -- "Shoot any civilian suspected of being a communist before they become prisoners.", "The Chinese and Koreans are in appearance but a shade above the human beast." - US Army Gen. M. Ridgway, United Nations Commander-in-chief in Korea
No Gun Ri Survivors Share Stories (AP) - Chung Koo-hak never could take his three children to school. He was too ashamed of a face disfigured by a bullet fired during an alleged 1950 mass killing of Korean civilian refugees by U.S. troops. Still, the 57-year-old Chung said he had not cried once an adult -- until Saturday, when he sobbed in a hotel room far from home, tears streaming down his mangled cheeks.
Unhealed Wounds of Korean War: Survivors of Incident Meet With U.S. Vets (Washington Post) - "There were no enemies among us. Some people are not fair to us in this fact," said Chung Ku Hak, 55, who lost his nose and part of his face in the shooting. "That is a lie."
U.S. Army Inspector General Web site for Investigating Facts Regarding No Gun Ri Incident - The U.S. Army Inspector General is directed to conduct a review to determine the facts surrounding the press reports of civilian deaths near No Gun Ri (Nokuen-Ri), South Korea in July 1950. All persons with information on No Gun Ri, especially Korean War veterans who served with the 1st Cavalry Division in late July 1950, are encouraged to use this web site or call the Toll Free Number: 1-877-379-5595 to communicate with the U.S. Army Inspector General review team.
Investigating war crimes: The struggle for accountability hits home -- by William J. Aceves, Associate Professor, California Western School of Law< (San Diego Union-Tribune) -- Throughout this century, international humanitarian law has prohibited indiscriminate attacks against civilians. In 1945, the Charter for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg established individual liability for war crimes and crimes against humanity, both of which prohibited murder or inhumane acts committed against a civilian population.
The Harder Lessons Of No Gun Ri - By Col. David Hughes, USAF (ret) (Voice of the Grunt, 1999-10-22-B) - A lot of ink, most of it from outside wire services, has been spilled over the alleged 'massacre' of South Korean civilians at No Gun Ri Korea, July 26th, 1950 by units of the 7th US Cavalry. Editorials have appeared arguing that since bad things happen in wars, perhaps we should never have fought there in the first place.
Dispel Vultures From the Sky and Deny Them Purchase On Earth -- by Andrew Leranth seeks to do justice to the soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division and by direct extension, to all those who fought and suffered on our behalf in Korea. It is our strongest hope that our effort captures and explains the situation correctly.
Account Describes Bridge Blast (AP) - In a now-declassified narrative sent to an Army historian on Aug. 24, 1953, Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay described how, as 1st Cavalry Division commander in 1950, he ordered the destruction of a bridge over South Korea's Naktong River at the cost of many refugee lives.
Incidents of Korean Refugees Killed (New York Times) - It was Aug. 3, 1950, sixth week of the Korean War. Maj. Gen. Hobart R. Gay's 1st Cavalry Division, hammered by the North Korean army, had just retreated over the Naktong. Gen. Gay ordered the bridge, still crowded with South Korean women and children, blown up.
Nogun-ri: The Korean My Lai - Bruce Cumings (The Nation) - Repressed memory is the ammunition of history, returning when one least expects it to puncture the complacency of the present. Americans reacted with palpable shock at learning the fate of several hundred Korean civilians, machine-gunned to death by US soldiers in late July 1950 under a bridge near Nogun village. The Nogun massacre can help Americans understand what this "forgotten war" was really about. It was a civil and unconventional war that had its origins long before June 1950, and the official repositories of historical truth in Washington and Seoul have been lying about its basic nature for half a century.
Nogeun-ri's Chung Speaks Out (Chosun Ilbo) - Chung Eun-yong, 76, the chairman of the Nogeun-ri Massacre Committee, said on Wednesday that he felt as though he was paying back the debts owed to people who were killed in the incident now that the truth has been revealed some 50 years later. Chung is busy these days as he has to meet with delegates of the National Assembly and the government who are investigating the case.
Unanswered questions still haunt Korean killing field - Old soldiers have spoken out after a half-century, corroborating the Korean accounts of refugee killings at No Gun Ri. But for U.S. Army investigators, many questions still hang in the air over the South Korean killing field -- and in the corridors of the Pentagon itself.
The Nogun-ri Massacre - The Record of the First Cav's 2nd of the 7th in Korea by Michael Munk - Lt. Col. William A. Harris, the regimental commander, implicated in the Nogun-ri massacre was also responsible for the massacre of 35,383 residents of Sinchun, Whang-hae-do. Col Harris's unit occupied Sinchun on October 17, 1950 and killed the "Communist" civilians over a period of 50 days.
The Ro-gun-ri Massacre - How US troops massacred South Korean civilians.
The Ro-gun-ri Massacre - Source documents

What About The Other Massacres?
Typhoon Rusa Exposes a Korean War Massacre Kept Secret for 50 Years - A few days after the Korean War started on June 25, 1950, the South Korean police murdered a large number of Korean civilians in the mountains near Masan. The victims were buried in hidden mass graves. In the past, there were only rumors of these massacres, but the recent Typhoon #15, Rusa, has exposed the grisly evidence of the civilians killed and buried so many decades ago.
Korea's Killing Fields - Masan/Samjin - Revealed after 52 Years
The Bodo League ((輔導聯盟) Massacre - The largest civilian massacre at 200,000 or more civilians killed all across South Korea.
The Secret Massacre of 200,000 Bodo League Members By Rhee Syngman
Masan villagers claim GIs committed another massacre - A group of villagers in Kokan-ri in Masan, some 400 km south of Seoul, alleged Monday that American soldiers shot to death more than 80 residents who were hiding in a house of ancestral worship on the outskirts of the village on Aug. 11, 1950.
Revelations Continue to Mount of U.S. War Crimes in Korea - Summary Report of U.S. Veterans Delegation to Korea, August 2 - 9, 2001, a project of the Korea Truth Commission (KTC) planned with members of Veterans For Peace (VFP). Yoomi Jeong, Deputy Secretary General, Korea Truth Commission, served as guide and translator.
Korean, U.S. Witnesses, Backed by Military Records, Say Refugees Were Strafed (AP) - In reports this fall, The Associated Press told of the killing of South Korean refugees by the U.S. Army in 1950. This report looks at yet another hidden dimension of the Korean conflict, air attacks on civilians. Korean, U.S. witnesses, backed by military records, say refugees strafed.
Witnesses Cite US in Korea Inferno (AP) - When the American firebombs hit, hundreds of terrified refugees trapped in the cave rushed for the entrance, villagers said. But only a dozen escaped with their lives.
The Nogun-ri Massacre: Tip of an Iceberg? -- John Kim, Esq. - What we need is an Independent Commission of Investigation Into the U.S. Military Conduct During the Korean War
The Massacres I Saw in Korea - Lee Wha Rang
The Daejon Massacre - At the outbreak of war in 1950, one of the first acts of the Rhee regime was to order the execution of political prisoners, whose deaths were in due course attributed to atrocities by the incoming northern forces. In Seoul, there was only time to execute 'about a hundred communists' (according to an Australian diplomatic source), but in Pusan an estimated 50,000 were killed, ] and Gregory Henderson, then a United States Embassy official in Seoul, estimated that throughout the country, 'probably over 100 000' people were killed without any trial or legal warrant at this time.
Thousands of Political Prisoners Killed by Rhee Syngman (Korea Times) - The South Korean military and police massacred thousands of political prisoners detained at Taejon and Taegu Prisons during the early days of the 1950-53 Korean War, the Hankook Ilbo reported yesterday, quoting declassified U.S. documents. Some 1,800 political prisoners in Taejon Prison were among those killed by the military and police.

The Truth About the Sinchun Massacre - In October of 1950, a major massacre of civilians took place in the Sinchun County. Some 35,000 residents, more than one in four, were murdered in cold blood and today, a museum in Sinchun displays grizzly evidence of the massacre for all to see. Visitors are reminded of the horrible war crimes committed by the American GIs that compare in barbarity with Hitler's Nazi Holocaust.
The Suwon Massacre - USAF Col. Donald Nichols - When the Korean War broke out, Col. Nichols (an American spy master) was the last American to leave Seoul. On his flight south, he participated in the massacres of 1,800 civilians at Suwon: "I stood by helplessly, witnessing the entire affair. Two big bull-dozers worked constantly. One made the ditch-type grave. Trucks loaded with the condemned ("Communists") arrived. Their hands were already tied behind them. They were hastily pushed into a line along the edge of the newly opened grave. They were quickly shot in the head and pushed into the grave.... The worst part about this whole affair was that I learned later that not all the people killed were communists.."
Memorandum on Massacre as US Policy (People's Korea) -- Americans killing Korean women and children goes back more than one century. They began invading Korea aboard the pirate ship General Sherman more than 130 years ago. They killed Koreans in the same way they butchered native Americans. Typical of their massacre in the early period of their aggression on Korea was their killing of over 350 guiltless people after their reinvasion of Kwang-hwa Island in 1871.
The Dok-do Massacre - On June 8, 1948, a flight of B29 heavy bombers of the US 5th Air Force bombed and machine-gunned 80 or so South Korean fishing boats in the waters of Dok-do and killed more than 200 fishermen. This massacre occurred while South Korea was still under the rule of the US Military Government in Korea (USMGIK).
American War Crimes: The Two Faces of America by Hee Kyoung Chun, The Cheju April 3rd Massacre Victims' Association -- Nogun-ri is but one of many cases of killing of non-combatants by American troops in this century. At Mylai in Vietnam in 1968, more than 500 Vietnamese civilians were killed. At Masan in 1950, Cheju island in 1948, and many other places in Korea,,,,,
Massacres by the "United Nations" Troops in Korea -A letter to the UN Secretary General concerning the atrocities committed by the US troops during the Korean War under the name of so-called "UN forces".
The Cheju 4.3 Massacre -- How US Gen. Dean ordered the massacre of more than 30,000 residents of Cheju
The Hangang Bridge Massacre: Who Was Behind It? - A few days after the Korean War began, the Hangang bridge, crowded with the retreating Korean soldiers and desperate refugees, was blown up. Several hundred soldiers and civilians were blown to bits and tens of thousands of Rhee's troops and the refugees were stranded in Seoul and fell into the enemy hands. A lowly Korean officer was executed for this war crime, but the real criminal is yet to be named.
James Hausman: The Ugly American in Korea? -- Part I. The Hangang Bridge Massacre
The Coverup Goes On: 'Dead Koreans Talk No Tale?' -- The war crimes committed by South Korean and American forces are made to look like Communist crimes.
Seoul's Silence on US War-Crimes in S. Korea: Why? - by Lee Wha Rang

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Did Americans Mass-Murder Korean Women and Kids?

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What About The Other Massacres?

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