NYC Preliminary Hearing on: THE CRIMINAL ROLE OF THE U.S. MILITARY IN KOREA
HEAR TESTIMONY FROM SURVIVORS OF U.S. TROOP ATTACKS
Saturday, March 24, 2001, 12:00 noon U.N. Church Center, 44th St. & 1st Avenue
Since September of 1999 when the Associated Press began publishing a series of articles about several instances of U.S. troops attacking and killing Korean civilians during the Korean war, evidence of more than 160 such atrocities have surfaced. After fifty years of silence and fear - the cries of victims, relatives, and witnesses of the atrocities were finally being revealed to the world.
At Nogun-ri, the most well known of these massacres, hundreds of villagers had been pinned beneath a bridge for 3 days as U.S. military forces strafed them from aircraft and fired machine guns and mortars at them. More than 400 innocent women, men and children were massacred.
The resulting "investigation" carried out by the Pentagon covers up the obvious: That U.S. military attacks on Korean civilians from both the north and south was policy throughout the war, not mistakes by panicked troops.
Today, Korea's 5,000 year old civilization remains divided at the 38th parallel, with 37,000 U.S. troops and weapons occupying the south. Tens of thousands of Koreans haven't seen family members for fifty years.
We cannot rely on Washington's current war makers to investigate their predecessors if we really seek truth and justice. On June 23 an International War Crimes Tribunal will be held in New York City where hundreds of concerned people from the U.S., Europe, Canada, Japan and China will be coming to help uncover the full truth about the U.S. atrocities in Korea.
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