http://crimesofcolonialism.wordpress.com/2012/11/01/death-camps-on-the-korean-peninsula/
outh Korea’s forgotten Holocaust
Written by Aidan Xavier
In the summer of 1950, an estimated
1,200,000 political prisoners in the Korean Peninsula were executed and
tossed into mass graves. These crimes were covered up and happened in
response to Kim Il Sung’s crossing of the 38th parallel in June of that
same year. For years, these atrocious crimes had been wrongfully blamed
on the Communists in the North, however, it has now been shown and
proven that the South Korean Government, alongside the United States
Military committed these massacres of South Korean civilians, all
without a single trial. The US military officially abetted these
mass-murders, and at least one US military officer was there to sanction
these mass-killings at every mass grave. Those targeted were
Communists, Communist sympathizers, sympathizers to North Korea in
general, and other Korean Political dissidents. For years, the western
media has been propagating the idea of “concentration camps” in the
North, used against political prisoners, however it is none other than
the United States that has done such a thing, and not North Korea. In
Sinchon, North Korea alone, the United States in a period of three
months massacred over 30,000 civilians. The Korean war remains one of
the bloodiest wars in the history of mankind, in which US airbombers
dropped more napalm and bombs on heavily populated North Korean cities
than they did during the entire pacific campaign against Imperial Japan
during World War II. Today, The United States through it’s puppet state,
the Republic of Korea attempts to provoke the North Korean State into a
second Korean war, in which millions of more Koreans would perish. The
point of this essay of mine is to inform every American of what their
country did then (and what they will do now if we allow them to) and why
America has no right and certainly no standing
telling North Korea how to govern itself. This article is dedicated to
every Korean among the millions of Korean civilians and North Korean and
Chinese People’s Liberation Army soldiers who lost their lives fighting
against the Fascist United States and it’s puppet state the Republic of
Korea in the South.
The Bodo League Massacre - Taking lessons from Adolf Hitler
Under the leadership of President Syngman Rhee, a group called the
“Bodo League” was born. The League’s mission in the public eye was
“re-education” of suspected Communists or North Korean sympathizers in
the Republic of Korea. Like the Nazi “Deportation” camps, the true
purpose of these camps was disguised from the public eye. What was made
to appear as “reeducation” was actually the systematic killing of
hundreds of thousands of Korean political dissidents, who were killed to
stop a “possible fifth column” in the Republic of Korea. Over a very
short period of time, Korean civilians were executed like livestock, and
tossed into mass graves. This massacre was abetted by the USAMGIK, and
at least one US military officer was at the sites to sanction the
killings. Along with US military presence, there, too, were also British
and Australian witnesses to the mass-killings, among which a 12 or 13
year old girl was reportedly executed and buried among others. Many
among the dead were small Children, and family members of suspected
Communists or North Korean Sympathizers. South Korean Retired
Admiral Nam Sang Hui confessed that he authorized the killings of 200
people and their bodies being thrown out to sea, remaking that “There
was no time for trials for them”. Even if trials had been arranged, they
would be akin to that of trials in the courts of Germany in the 1930′s
and 40′s, for these people had committed no crimes. The horrible crime
they committed, in the eyes of the USAMGIK officers who were happy to
assist in this genocide, and in the eyes of Syngman Rhee and his
cronies, was that these people were Communists. They had committed the
crime of political dissent, and for this they and their families are now
beneath the ground, riddled in bullets, and while these people lie
beneath the ground, their cries for justice going unheard for decades,
we in America stand and salute our flag, praise “our troops” of which
this has become a sort of holy word, as they participate in Systematic
Genocide in Iraq, or violate the sovereignty of Afghanistan, and we say
our pledge. We praise our “Democracy” when our “Democracy” is nothing
other than a farce, the image of our Bald eagle, a predatory
and vicious animal, no different than the imagery of the Fascist eagle
perched on the Swastika of Nazi Germany.
Today, not much has changed. South Korea experiences extreme poverty
despite an “abundant economy”, political dissent is systematically
crushed and silenced, and it is illegal for a South Korean to say
anything with positive reverence towards their brothers in the North. In
America, however, our perceptions couldn’t be more skewed, we are
taught exactly the opposite of what is true. For example, right now I am
speaking of actual concentration camps proven to exist in South Korea,
providing pictures, statistics and other forms of evidence, and the
expected form of response I’d most likely see would amount of something
alone the lines of “Well, in North Korea people starve” or, “As if they
don’t throw people into concentration camps in North Korea” my response
consists simply that there is no substantial evidence for any of this.
The supposed defectors could easily be actors (and considering the
resources of the United States that wouldn’t be hard to pull off) and
these actors generally do not carry passports or any form of
identification, and even attempt to hide their identity making their
claims entirely anonymous and unbelievable. North Korea is the size of
Wales in the United Kingdom, if they “escaped” North Korea, they’d have
no reason to want to hide their identity. Something else to note is the
number of people who “defected” from North Korea and then returned upon
finding life in South Korea unlivable, hundreds of Koreans have defected
BACK to North Korea. What were their reasons for leaving in the first
place? One defector, Pak Jong Suk, says the following concerning this:
“I illegally crossed the border on the night of March 29, 2006 in a
foolish hope of meeting my father who went to South Korea due to the
A-bomb scare made by the U.S. imperialists during the Korean War and
getting money from him”
She did not leave North Korea due to lack of food, political
oppression, or anything of the like. Her father left because he was
afraid the United States would bomb North Korea and that he would die.
This is quite distinct from the claims made by the United States about
the reasoning of defectors. She left, most likely, out of the same fear
of the perils of war. She added:
“I was taken in by the luring tactics of South Korean Intelligence
Service agents in an alien land and handed over by them according to
their scenario. This was how I was taken to south Korea at around 9 a.m.
of June 29 of the same year”
She recalled that while living in South Korea for six years she led a
life little short of a miserable slave’s for want of money. Referring
to the living conditions of the “defectors from the north”, she said the
jobs they could find at best were nothing but waste cleaning, vessel
washing and servicing and other most hateful and difficult jobs. “The
suicidal rate among them is five times that among other south Koreans”,
she said. “They ardently wish to return to the DPRK, cursing corrupt
South Korean society and reproaching themselves.”
Dead Korean Civilians
We need only look at the Ganghwa massacre, committed by South Korean
Fascist police in January of the year 1951, to see how visibly
Authoritative the Police State which protects the Fascist policies of
South Korean politics which is itself a branch of the United States
global empire. Over 1,300 civilians were massacred by South Korean State
police, for the crime of being Communists. It is very interesting how,
if a political radical were to detonate a bomb with the aim of killing
no civilians while sending warnings as to facilitate the aim of keeping
the bombing victimless in regards to civilians, and one or
two civilians were hurt in this and it being not the aim of the radical,
this would immediately discredit the political associations of the
radical, rendering him a severe blow, relegating his political aims
intensely. Why is it, then, that when the United States facilitates
policies of aggression against other countries and groups of people, or
establishes Concentration camps similar to that of the camps in Europe
during World War II which killed 6 million Jews and 5 million Communists
and Soviet P.O.W’s, homosexuals, political dissidents and
“undesirables” thrown away by the elitist Fascist regime of Nazi
Germany, it is somehow excusable? How is it excusable for the United
States to drop bombs on foreign lands indiscriminately killing thousands
of even millions of people through these carpet bombings and the like?
It is not. These are not excusable. And those of us with a sense of
ethical backbone, morality and love of humanity remember these crimes,
hold the victims close to our hearts, and seek out retribution for those
who are responsible for committing these crimes against humanity.
