When Only The Government Has Guns - Another Story Not So Well Known

Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.

With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean invaders pushed down the peninsula, the southern army and police emptied South Korean prisons, lined up detainees and shot them in the head, dumping the bodies into hastily dug trenches. Others were thrown into abandoned mines or into the sea. Women and children were among those killed. Many victims never faced charges or trial.

The mass executions - intended to keep possible southern leftists from reinforcing the northerners - were carried out over mere weeks and were largely hidden from history for a half-century. They were "the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War," said historian Kim Dong-choon, a member of a 2-year-old government commission investigating the killings.

Hundreds of sets of remains have been uncovered so far, but researchers say they are only a tiny fraction of the deaths. The commission estimates at least 100,000 people were executed, in a South Korean population of 20 million.

The complete article, titled S. Korea Executed Thousands in 1950 may be found at: http://www.military.com/news/article/s-korea-executed-thousands-in-1950.html?col=1186032310810


Soap Box ravings says the picture used above was identified as persons killed by the North Koreans, but those killed by the South Koreans would look very similar. Soap Box Ravings says after reading about those killed by South Korea while US Army personnel perhaps looked on wonders how you could be sure of the pictures identity.

The accuracy of the picture is not the point. The point is another legal government murdered citizens of its own country for expediency. Remember this because Barack Hussein Obama is coming for your gun, your daddy's gun and any other gun he and his minions can think of.