U.S. Army colonel sanctioned the mass executions of South Korean political prisoners
Posted on Jul 8th, 2008
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This makes me wonder what other vile crap is hiding in so-called classified documents.
From Newsweek:
The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first. But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it “would be permitted” to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.
In the early days of the Korean War, other American officers observed, photographed and confidentially reported on such wholesale executions by their South Korean ally, a secretive slaughter believed to have killed 100,000 or more leftists and supposed sympathizers, usually without charge or trial, in a few weeks in mid-1950.
And to think that I always believed the machine gunning of political prisoners was something only the godless communists did. It’s things like this that make me sometimes forget that we are supposed to be the good guys.
I learned from the same Newsweek article that the news of these exicutions first surfaced on May 19 in an AP article. An article I don’t remember reading or hearing about.
