Unearthing proof of Korea killings | BBC
Posted by Faiz on August 19th, 2008
“At the outbreak of the Korean Wa many thousands of suspected Communist sympathisers w[ere] rounded up by the South Korean police … large numbers of these political prisoners were shot to stop them joining troops advancing from the north is the grim truth now being pulled from the country’s soil … In total, the [mass graves] are estimated to contain the remains of more than 100,000 civilian prisoners and suspected leftists … And there is strong evidence to suggest that the 1950 summer of slaughter took place in the full view of South Korea’s American allies.”
