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From: heikki sipilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 4:54 AM
Subject: Korean Central News Agency Feb 20
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GIs' criminal atrocities condemned
Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The truth about U.S.'s massacres of
civilians in Rogun-ri, Yongdong
county, North Chungchong Province, and Masan, Changnyong and Sachon of
South Kyongsang Province, and
Phyongthaek, Kyonggi Province, and other areas in South Korea during the
last Korean War has been fully
disclosed recently by documents preserved at the U.S. national archives and
the declassified documents of the U.S.
military and testimonies made by ex-soldiers of the U.S. aggression troops
who participated in the war, and South
Korean victims and eyewitnesses. This has touched off indignation of the
Korean people and human conscience.
The investigation committee of the democratic front for the
reunification of the fatherland, which was organized
at the outset of the Fatherland Liberation War to investigate and record
GIs' criminal atrocities, issued indictment no.
1 on February 19 to inform the world of part of those crimes investigated
and confirmed over the last 50 years.
The indictment deals with the massacres committed by the U.S. from June
25 to early August, 1950.
The indictment cites dates and places, etc, to accuse the U.S.
aggressors of killing many peaceable civilians,
destroying or reducing to ashes houses and properties and leveling to the
ground great many schools, hospitals and
theatres and other cultural establishments and peaceful industrial
facilities in the northern half of the DPRK by
indiscriminate bombing and bombardment from the first day of the Korean War.
The indictment says:
In the period from June 25, 1950 when the Korean War broke out to early
August of the same year the U.S.
aggressors killed over 10,730 peaceable civilians, destroyed or reduced to
ashes 14,119 houses and razed to the
ground more than 100 cultural establishments and peaceful industrial
factories in the North Korea.
All these facts go to clearly prove that the brutal massacres and
indiscriminate destruction committed by the
U.S. in the past Korean War are the indelible crimes against humanity and
they are ogres in human skin and
chieftains of aggression, plunder and destruction and the sworn enemy of
the Korean people.
We will surely make the U.S. aggressors pay for the criminal atrocities
committed during the Korean War in
order to protect the dignity of the nation.
