U.S. Military Killed Korean Refugees

Nine years ago, the world learned of a hidden chapter of the Korean War — the killing of refugees at a place called No Gun Ri. Now investigators are shedding light on what one calls 215 “other No Gun Ris.”

Charles Hanley and Jae-Soon Chang report for the Associated Press:

South Korean investigators, matching once-secret documents to eyewitness accounts, are concluding the U.S. military indiscriminately killed large groups of refugees and other civilians early in the Korean War.

A half-century later, the Seoul government’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission has more than 200 such alleged wartime cases on its docket, based on hundreds of citizens’ petitions recounting bombing and strafing runs on South Korean refugees in 1950-51.

Concluding its first investigations, the 2 ½-year-old commission is urging the government to seek U.S. compensation for victims. Click here for the full article.

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