Crimes of Occupation Troops (1)
It is 68 years since the U.S. troops
occupied south Korea. They landed there, without firing a single shot,
on September 8, 1945, to stay on till today.
The U.S. occupation of south Korea and
its policy of aggression have caused untold pains of national split and
calamities. In the middle of the last century a war broke out on the
Korean Peninsula, and in the years that followed there had been constant
threat of war owing to the U.S. occupation and its aggressive ambition
to conquer the whole of Korea.
The U.S. occupation forces are not the
"liberator" or "peace-maker" as they professed themselves to be; they
are invaders and peace killers. The U.S. atrocities against Koreans
furnish ample proof of this. Here we cite a few examples.
Bombings of Fishing Boats
On June 8, 1948, a horrible incident
occurred on the sea near the Ullung Island. A south Korean news agency
described the incident as one rarely to be seen even in wartime. The
story goes like this. That day some 15 boats home-ported on Ullung
Island were in fishing operation. At around 11:40 in the morning, 9
military planes turned up in the air. None of the boaters thought they
would be the very targets of air strike. Planes began diving, bombing
and strafing. The sea soon dyed in crimson blood; all the 11 boats were
sunken and nine fishermen were killed, and more wounded. All this
happened at a blink of time. Many drowning men cried for help only to be
strafed and bombed. As was revealed later, the criminals of this
hair-raising incident were pilots of the U.S. aggressor troops stationed
in south Korea.
The pilots spotted the fishing boats as
they had been on air training. The American pilots yelled for joy as
they sought a way to kill time, and to kill men whom they regarded
inferior to them.
A glint in their eyes, they looked at
each other before they pounced upon their preys. "What nice moving
targets!" Like hungry wolves, the blood-hungry pilots felt they were in
good luck. The moment an order came to bomb the fishing boats. Bombs
poured down. Some helpless fishermen waved their jackets to the pilots
for help. But the merciless devils strafed at the sinking boats. In a
minute, bodies of fishermen were seen floating on the surface of the
water. The devils returned to their base leisurely. Man-killing seemed
most joyful kill time for them.
This was not the first incident of U.S.
atrocity in south Korea. They perpetrated bloody suppression of the
south Korean people calling for social democracy and withdrawal of the
U.S. troops. Bombing and strafing of fishing boats were also committed
elsewhere in the seas off south Korea.
Whenever complaints were mounted against
their atrocities, the U.S. brass hats just found excuses, saying "the
U.S. planes may get involved in the bombing, but it must have been an
accidental or the planes might have taken fishing boats for a green rock
on the water surface."
All this shows that the U.S. troops are a
pack of robbers whose sole pleasure is killing and pillage and the
continued presence of the U.S. troops in south Korea will bring nothing
good, but greater pains and miseries to the south Korean people.
Choe Hak Chol
Crimes of Occupation Troops (2)
Genocide in Rogun-ri
The
68 years following the U.S. imperialists' occupation of the south Korea
is a history full of murder, plunder and destruction.
It
was clearly proved by the terrible genocide the U.S. troops committed
in Rogun-ri, Yongdong County, North Chungchong Province of south Korea.
Its truth was disclosed in 1990s by the testimonies of participants in
the atrocity and the declassified historical data. According to them,
the U.S. aggressors massacred guiltless people deliberately.
Toward
the end of July 1950 following the outbreak of the Korean war, the
ex-GIs testified to the fact that U.S. troops stranded over 700 south
Korean refugees, most of them being women and children, under a bridge
of a small village in Rogun-ri and slew them mercilessly. 6 soldiers
from the U.S. First Armored Division said that they fired at the
civilians in Rogun-ri and another 6 said that they witnessed the
genocide.
The
AP reported about the genocide: This terrible incident began to take
place when U.S. aircraft abruptly strafed on the white-clothed refugees
in a rest. Corpses were found here and there and terror-stricken women
led chair children by hands to a small tunnel under the bridge.
Then
other GIs indiscriminately machine-gunned toward them. According to the
survivals, hundreds of people lost their lives only there.
The
then machine-gunner said, "We annihilated them". As to the crime,
another GI confessed, "It was a massacre in the literal sense of the
word."
There are many wars, big and small, and homicidal atrocities in history. But it has never seen such bloodthirsty felons.
The
world press condemned the U.S., reporting that the incident in Rogun-ri
is one of the large-scale massacres of noncombatants perpetrated by the
U.S. ground forces in the wars in the current century.
What's
the matter is that the genocide in Rogun-ri was organizational and
planned one committed by participation and instruction of the U.S.
military and field commanding officers.
The historical fact and truth can never be concealed or covered.
With nothing can the U.S. imperialists veil the truth of the deliberate massacre.
The U.S. imperialists are, indeed, bloodthirsty wolves and the most brutal aggressors.
Crimes of Occupation Troops (3)
Murder of Two Schoolgirls by GIs
A shocking incident of killing two south
Korean schoolgirls took place in Hyochon-ri, Kwangjok Sub-county, Yangju
County , Kyonggi Province on June 13, 2002.
That morning Lance Corporal Mike Walker
and his assistant belonging to the engineer corps of the U.S 2nd
division present in south Korea deliberately ran their armoured car over
two 14-year old schoolgirls, Sin Hyo Sun and Sim Mi Son, to kill them
on the spot.
It was one day before Hyo Sun's birthday.
She, together with Mi Son, was going to her mate's house. Over 10
armored vehicles of the U.S. army entered the narrow path, rending the
air.
Scared at this, they stood on the roadside.
It was right then when the third vehicle
abruptly turned toward the roadside. There was no room on the path for
them to avert the danger.
Upon this shocking news, the south Korean people strongly demanded that the murders should be punished severely.
But the U.S authorities were impudent
enough to talk such nonsense that "they didn't see the girls because of
jamming". What they meant was that "it was an inevitable accident".
As the demand of the public for a
thorough investigation grew stronger, the U.S couldn’t but promise a
"joint investigation" with south Korea.
They dragged on the investigation for
such and such excuses. But all of a sudden, they published so-called
findings of the "Joint investigation Team", a sheer fabrication which
justified the crimes of the GIs.
Indignant at this, the public and
bereaved families asked to meet face to face with the murderers.But the
U.S refused it, saying that "the driver is in a serious state of mental
shock."
But they applied for a furlough and went barhopping around the barrack, saying "I'm innocent".
The indignant south Koreans people
compelled the U.S compelled to hold a "court" in November only to give
the murderers a verdict of "not guilty".
This incident exposed the true color of the U.S, the chieftain of man-slaughter and crimes.
Kim Dal Mi
Jong Ryu Chol
