Forward from mart. To: activist general1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 8:31 PM Subject: U.S. military in Korea: The criminal role - Sat, March 24, NYC > 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. > > *For the hearing in the city nearest you, go to > www.iacenter.org. > > International Action Center > 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 > New York, NY 10011 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.iacenter.org > CHECK OUT SITE > http://www.mumia2000.org > phone: 212 633-6646 > fax: 212 633-2889 > *To make a tax-deductible donation, > go to > http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org > _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
