Murder of North Korean prisoners of war.

["Sol Dollinger" <soldoll@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.