Massacre

In 1950, South Korea, assisted by American army officers, rousted at least 100,000 prisoners out of their jail cells, and in the course of about three weeks, these prisoners were executed. Most the slain had never been formally charged. Some estimates put the number of the massacred at about 200,000. Many women and children were among he murdered.

1-200,000 mostly innocent civilians murdered in a matter of days, with American military assistance. The motive? It was thought that they might be communist sympathizers, and might link up with the Red armies prowling the Korean peninsula.

The most amazing thing about this event is not that the atrocity happened, but that no-one talked. We did not know about this for decades, proving that the government can keep a secret.

(source from ABC news, AP, May 19, 2008)