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Die Massaker der USA und des US-Vasallen Syngman Rhee

CHARLES J. HANLEY and JAE-SOON CHANG, Associated Press (3 Aug 2008): Seoul probes civilian `massacres' by US. South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding that the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War.
BBC (21. April 2000): Evidence of Korean war killings
BBC, John Sudworth (18.8.08): Unearthing proof of Korea killings. Just a handful of 160 suspected mass-grave sites have been uncovered so far. In total, they are estimated to contain the remains of more than 100,000 civilian prisoners and suspected leftists. And there is strong evidence to suggest that the 1950 summer of slaughter took place in the full view of South Korea's American allies.
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Mass Killings Of Leftists In South Korea In 1950 Kept Hidden From History by CHARLES J. HANLEY May 18, 2008
Zehntausende Koreaner wurden von der Pro-US-Junta ohne Prozess ermordet. Im "freien" Westen wurde die Nachricht jahrzehntelang unterdrückt und bewußt verschwiegen.
Charles J. Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang, AP DAEJEON, South Korea: (Hundred-)Thousands killed by US's Korean ally. 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. 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. 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. The commission estimates at least 100,000 people were executed, in a South Korean population of 20 million. That estimate is based on projections from local surveys and is "very conservative," said Kim. The true toll may be twice that or more, he told The Associated Press. n addition, thousands of South Koreans who allegedly collaborated with the communist occupation were slain by southern forces later in 1950. In the late 1940s, President Syngman Rhee's U.S.-installed rightist regime crushed leftist political activity in South Korea, including a guerrilla uprising inspired by the communists ruling the north. By 1950, southern jails were packed with up to 30,000 political prisoners. The southern government, meanwhile, also created the National Guidance League, a "re-education" organization for recanting leftists and others suspected of communist leanings. Historians say officials met membership quotas by pressuring peasants into signing up with promises of rice rations or other benefits. By 1950, more than 300,000 people were on the league's rolls, organizers said. evidence suggests most of the National Guidance League's 300,000 members were killed. "Orders for execution undoubtedly came from the top," that is, President Rhee, who died in 1965. The life of the commission — with a staff of 240 and annual budget of $19 million — is guaranteed by law until at least 2010, when it will issue a final, comprehensive report. When British communist journalist Alan Winnington entered Daejeon that summer with North Korean troops and visited the site, writing of ''waxy dead hands and feet (that) stick through the soil,'' his reports in the Daily Worker were denounced as ''fabrication'' by the U.S. Embassy in London. (NYT, May 19, 2008).