"Revealed: Execution of tens of thousands kept secret by US Army"
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PHOTOS: 1950 Korea Mass Killings(Warning: Graphic)
Photography by the US Army kept secret!!!
Fear, secrecy kept 1950 Korea mass killings hidden
By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent Sun May 18, 1:26 PM ET
One journalist's bid to report mass murder in South Korea in 1950 was blocked by his British publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly treasonous fabricator when he did report it. In South Korea, down the generations, fear silenced those who knew.Fifty-eight years ago, at the outbreak of the Korean War, South Korean authorities secretively executed, usually without legal process, tens of thousands of southern leftists and others rightly or wrongly identified as sympathizers. Today a government Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to dig up the facts, and the remains of victims.
How could such a bloodbath have been hidden from history?
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