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PostMon May 29, 2006 5:04 pm    U.S. policy was to shoot Korean refugees

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More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document from the war's chaotic early days has come to light � a letter from the U.S. ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers would shoot refugees approaching their lines.

The letter � dated the day of the Army's mass killing of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri in 1950 � is the strongest indication yet that such a policy existed for all U.S. forces in Korea, and the first evidence that that policy was known to upper ranks of the U.S. government.


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PostMon May 29, 2006 5:05 pm    

Wow... that's pretty scary stuff.
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PostMon May 29, 2006 6:21 pm    

That it is. It's frightening how such a policy could have been instilled.


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PostFri Jun 02, 2006 12:16 am    

Wow... and that's my people they were killing.
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