Crimes of Occupation Troops (4)
Aggressors' Pillages
The people cannot live at peace in the
land where robbers are rampant. So is south Korea. The U.S. forces
forcibly deprived south Koreans of their houses and arable land to
convert south Korea into a huge military base.
On April 16,1957 80 fully armed
military policemen belonging to the U.S. 24th division seized and
surprised the peasants of 305 families residing in Yongju-dong,
Yonphung-ri,Junae Sub-county, Phaju County, Kyonggi Province to take
away all their property. The invaders did not hesitate to kidnap over
innocent 70 protesters. Only in Phaju County, the aggressors looted 600
inhabitants of their arable land, houses and property, leaving them
without shelter.
Later, the U.S. 8th Army corps expelled
peasants of more than 300 families in Rimjin, Phaphyong, Chonhyon and
Joksong sub-counties of Paju County again under the pretext of the
"illegal residence". It was indeed like "the guilty party filing the
suit first".
In March 1960 a soldier belonging to the
U.S. 7th division jumped into a civilian house in Rithaewon-dong,
Ryongsan District, Seoul and ran away with money and goods after raping a
woman. In November 1965 in Phaju County a GI knifed in the neck of a
taxi driver and stifled him to unconsciousness before driving the car
away. Such horrible incidents took place in different parts of south
Korea in succession.
On November 12, 1971 15 U.S. intruded
into a restaurant in Choryang-dong, East District, Pusan City and picked
an unreasonable quarrel with waiters to stab and beat them with bottles
at random, wounding 8 employees seriously.
A similar atrocity was committed in a
restaurant in Uijongbu, Kyonggi Province in February 1998 by corporal
belonging to a field support company 473 of the U.S. forces.
He committed even a crime of setting fire on the building in an attempt to cover his crime.
All these atrocities clearly show that
the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops are hordes of brutes and murderers
who are imbued with man-hating ideas.
Kim Nam Chol
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