Murder of North Korean Prisoners of War

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Now, where are leftists on LBO-talk demanding that America, Japan, 
etc. make reparations for North Korea???  All these posts about how 
"weird" North Korea is must be an effect of "unconscious repression" 
of American atrocities committed during the "Forgotten War," as 
psychoanalysts might say.  Hey, they are "Stalinists," so what should 
we care if we killed them?  We got nothing to feel guilty about!  No 
apology!

Imperial amnesia & complacency have been a more powerful force of 
brainwashing than any propaganda that North Koreans ever came up 
with.   Yoshie

*****   From: "Sol Dollinger" <soldoll at inreach.com>
To: <Marxism at lists.panix.com>
Subject: Murder of North Korean prisoners of war.
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 09:50:32 -0700

A headline in the Los Angeles Times

*S.Korea Shot Prisoners During War, Reports Say*

More than two thousand prisoners of war shot often while American 
officers photographed the gruesome action.  The article confirms that 
Supreme Commander Douglas MacArthur had received official 
notification of one of the many massacres.

This information was disclosed when the Associated Press investigated 
the events at No Gun Ri where witnesses reported the  execution of 
400 Koreans, many of them civilians, by the U. S. forces July 26-29, 
1950.

The earlier executions were found by Lee Do Young at the National 
Archives and published in a Seoul Newspaper Hankook Ilbo in January. 
A U.S. attache at the American Embassy,  Lt.. Col. Bob E. Edwards 
reported the execution of 1800 prisoners that the South Koreans 
labeled political prisoners over a three day period at Taejon. 
Photographs and reports were sent to Washington.

Researcher, Lee, a U.S. educated psychologist,  reported that among 
the executed were students, teachers and children.  Lee blames the 
American authorities as well as the South Korean officers.

*The Americans cannot escape the charge that they condoned, if not 
supported, the massacres.  After all, these soldiers killed these 
people with rifles and bullets that the Americans gave them, while 
the American officers stood behind their backs taking pictures.*

Lee lost his father, a government official,  among the 210 killed by 
police and soldiers on August 20, 1950 on the southern island of 
Cheju.   *****