i'm sure there is so much of this stuff out there (how our lawmakers and government knew about murders and executions and tortures and rapes and more) it would turn your blood cold
we're human beings. there can never be peace if we continue to allow this to happen (and we do)
AP: U.S. Okayed Korean War Massacres
Associated Press
SEOUL 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..............
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Holy shit . . . Holy shit . . .
This is something I never knew. Something that I never suspected.
i didn't know about this either. i'm not shocked though.
this isn't the first instance nor will it be the last - of our government either knowing about OR being directly responsible for the murder of those they think are different than them (not even their enemies, just not politically the same). look at south and central american (in the past) as an example
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