US sanctioned South Korean massacres of tens of thousands of prisoners
July 7th, 2008
Associated Press reports that, as th South Koreans were executing at least 100,000 potentially left-leaning prisoners in 1950, the United States gave them permission for the massacres:
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.
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