Crimes of US occupation troops in south Korea

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.

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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