6 Jul 2008

Mass-murder in South Korea

In 1950, South Korean military rounded up thousands of prisoners and sometimes under the watchful eye of American military observers, shot them and buried them in ditches.

Those mass graves, long spoken of as “fiction” or leftist propaganda or else blamed on the North Korean army by US and South Korean officials, are still being uncovered today as the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission attempts to fulfill its brief.

The victims were supposed to be Communists working with the North Koreans, but according to a former prison guard/executioner who testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, they were really garden variety criminals, peasants rounded up in random sweeps, even women and children. The History Blog

Also see US Archives and "Did Americans Mass-Murder Korean Women and Kids?" with lots of links

Picasso's famous painting of Korean women and children being butchered by white men (1951) Musée Picasso, Paris