DC Forum and Demonstration: US War Crimes during the Korean War / Expose U.S. War Crimes Against the Korean People
Educational Forum Wednesday, June 14th, 2000, 7:00pm La Casa, 3166 Mt. Pleasant Street NW
Featured Speakers:
Rev Kiyul Chung, Congress for Korean Reunification, recently returned from south Korea, Malcolm Cannon, International Action Center, and others.
Topics:
Rally and Demonstration Friday, June 23rd, 2000, 12 Noon The White House, 16th St. and Pennsylvania Ave NW.
Sign a peace treat NOW!
US Troops out of Korea!
Recent revelations of the No Gun Ri massacre and many other massacres throughout Korea have exposed to the world that the U.S. committed numerous war crimes against the innocent civilian population during the Korean War! Korean survivors of No Gun Ri charge U.S. troops with massacring over 400 innocent men, women and children in July, 1950. This was part of a pattern by the U.S. during the Korean war of deliberately targeting civilians, which is a war crime under International Law. Since then U.S. troops have continued to commit grave human rights violations (over 100,000 crimes such as murder, rape, robbery, etc) against people in south Korea, including the massacre of hundreds of innocent civilians in Kwangju in 1980. The U.S. military presence in the south has made Korea the most militarized/ dangerous region in the world. U.S. military occupation on Korean soil has not only resulted human suffering but also environmental destruction and enormous financial waste. Just like in Vieques, an innocent Korean civilian was recently killed during U.S. military exercises when a bomb went astray. Billions of our tax dollars are spent to keep troops in south Korea, while billions in Korean tax money are wasted to host U.S. troops. This money could be spent meeting the social needs for education and health care for people in south Korea and in the US.
Sponsored by the International Action Center and Pan Korean (north, south and overseas) Special Committee to Investigate Civilian Massacres during the Korean War. Call 202-588-1205 for more information.
International Action Center-DC
iacdc@excite.com