"US military’s large-scale killing of refugees during the Korean War.... arose out of military necessity.... mass graves believed to hold remains of tens of thousands of South Korean political detainees executed by their own government.... sometimes as US officers watched.... The US-allied South Korean military and police carried out a vast secretive slaughter of political detainees in mid-1950.... Up to 200,000 were killed"
Yes, some slaughters are secret and others get a trademark.
Pffft!
"Korean War killings called justified; Panel clears US of refugee deaths" by Associated Press | July 11, 2010
SEOUL — In a political about-face, a South Korean commission investigating a century of human rights abuses has ruled that the US military’s large-scale killing of refugees during the Korean War, in case after case, arose out of military necessity.
Shutting down the inquiry into South Korea’s hidden history, the commission also will leave unexplored suspected mass graves believed to hold remains of tens of thousands of South Korean political detainees executed by their own government early in the 1950-53 war, sometimes as US officers watched.
The four-year-old Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea investigated more deeply than any previous inquiry. But a shift to conservative national leadership changed the panel’s political makeup this year and dampened its investigative zeal.
I thought I smelled a rigged rat at the time.
The families of the 1950s victims wanted the work continued.
Of course they did!!
“The truth about all these past incidents must be revealed, so this national tragedy won’t be repeated,’’ said Yang Won-jin, 82, whose father was believed shot and dumped into a mass grave.
Yeah, isn't it strange that only the truth of the trademarked slaughter is discouraged. They will even put you in jail some places for questioning a certain number.
But the commission’s new president said its work must end. “Even if we investigated more, there’s not much more to be revealed,’’ said Lee Young-jo.
The commission was established in 2005 to “reconcile the past for the sake of national unity.’’ The most shocking disclosures emerged from the war that began when communist North Korea invaded the south on June 25, 1950.
The commission was the first government authority to publicly confirm what long had only been whispered: The US-allied South Korean military and police carried out a vast secretive slaughter of political detainees in mid-1950, to keep southern sympathizers from supporting the northerners. Up to 200,000 were killed, historians believe.
Wow, a one-day wonder that I never read about in my state-sanctioned history books.
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