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American Conservative,<\/strong> June 26, 2020<\/div>\n

The Korean War Atrocities No One Wants to Talk About<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n
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For decades they covered up the U.S. massacre of civilians at No Gun Ri and elsewhere. This is why we never learn our lessons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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by\u00a0 Jim Bovard <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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June 25th was the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War. Hundreds of thousands of American soldiers fought bravely in that war, and almost 37,000 were killed<\/a>. But the media is ignoring perhaps the war\u2019s most important lesson: the U.S. government has almost unlimited sway to hide its own war crimes.<\/p>\n

During the Korean War, Americans were deluged with official pronouncements about how the U.S. military was taking all possible steps to protect innocent civilians. Because the evils of communism were self-evident, few questions arose about how the U.S. was thwarting Red aggression. When a U.S. Senate subcommittee appointed in 1953 by Sen. Joseph McCarthy investigated Korean War atrocities, the committee explicitly declared<\/a> that, \u201cwar crimes were defined as those acts committed by enemy nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1999, forty-six years after the cease fire in Korea, the Associated Press exposed a 1950 massacre<\/a> of Korean refugees at No Gun Ri. U.S. troops drove Koreans\u00a0 out of their village and forced them to remain on a railroad embankment. Beginning on July 25, 1950, the refugees were strafed by U.S. planes and machine guns over the following three days. Hundreds of people, mostly women and children, were killed. The 1999 AP story was widely denounced by American politicians and some media outlets as a slander on American troops.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon promised an exhaustive investigation. In January 2001, the Pentagon released a 300-page report purportedly proving that the No Gun Ri killings were merely \u201can unfortunate tragedy<\/a>\u201d caused by trigger-happy soldiers frightened by approaching refugees.<\/p>\n

President Bill Clinton announced his \u201cregret that Korean civilians lost their lives at No Gun Ri.\u201d In a January 2001 interview, Clinton was asked why he used \u201cregret\u201d instead of \u201capology.\u201d He declared, \u201cI believe that the people who looked into it could not conclude that there was a deliberate act<\/a>, decided at a high enough level in the military hierarchy, to acknowledge that, in effect, the government had participated in something that was terrible.\u201d Clinton specified<\/a> that there was no evidence of \u201cwrongdoing high enough in the chain of command in the Army to say that, in effect, the government was responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2005, Sahr Conway-Lanz, a Harvard University doctoral student, discovered a letter in the National Archives from the U.S. ambassador to Korea, John Muccio, sent<\/a>\u00a0to Assistant Secretary of State Dean Rusk on the day the No Gun Ri massacre commenced. Muccio summarized a new policy from a meeting between U.S. military and South Korean officials: \u201cIf refugees do appear from north of U.S. lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing\u00a0 they will be shot.\u201d The new policy was radioed to Army units around Korea on the morning the No Gun Ri massacre began.\u00a0 The U.S. military feared that North Korean troops might be hiding amidst the refugees. The Pentagon initially claimed that its investigators never saw Muccio\u2019s letter but it was in the specific research file used for its report.<\/p>\n

Conway-Lanz\u2019s 2006 book Collateral Damage<\/i><\/a> quoted an official U.S. Navy history of the first six months of the Korean War stating that the policy of strafing civilians was \u201cwholly defensible.\u201d An official Army history noted: \u201cEventually, it was decided to shoot anyone who moved at night.\u201d A report for the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge justified attacking civilians because the Army insisted that \u201cgroups of more than eight to ten people were to be considered troops, and were to be attacked.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2007, the Army recited its original denial: \u201cNo policy purporting to authorize soldiers to shoot refugees was ever promulgated to soldiers in the field.\u201d But the Associated Press exposed<\/a> more dirt from the U.S. archives: \u201cMore than a dozen documents\u2014in which high-ranking U.S. officers tell troops that refugees are \u2018fair game,\u2019 for example, and order them to \u2018shoot all refugees coming across river\u2019\u2014were found by the AP in the\u00a0 investigators\u2019 own archived files after the 2001 inquiry. None of those documents was disclosed in the Army\u2019s 300-page public report.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former Air Force Pilot told investigators that his plane and three others strafed refugees at the same time of the No Gun Ri massacre; the official\u00a0 report claimed \u201call pilots interviewed \u2026 knew nothing about such orders.\u201d Evidence also surfaced of other massacres like No Gun Ri. On September 1, 1950, the destroyer USS DeHaven, at the Army\u2019s insistence<\/a>, \u201cfired on a seaside refugee encampment at Pohang, South Korea. Survivors say 100 to 200 people were killed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Slaughtering civilians en masse became routine procedure after the Chinese Army intervened in the Korean war in late 1950. U.S. Commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur spoke of turning North Korean-held territory into a \u201cdesert.\u201d The U.S. military eventually \u201cexpanded its definition of a military target to any structure that could shelter enemy troops or supplies.\u201d In a scoring method that foreshadowed the Vietnam war body counts, Air Force press releases touted the \u201csquare footage\u201d of \u201cenemy-held buildings\u201d that it flattened. General Curtis LeMay summarized<\/a> the achievements: \u201cWe burned down every town in North Korea\u2026 and some in South Korea, too.\u201d A million civilians may have been killed during the war<\/a>, and a South Korean government Truth and Reconciliation Commission uncovered many previously unreported atrocities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon strategy on Korean War atrocities succeeded because it left truth to the historians, not the policymakers. The facts about No Gun Ri finally slipped out\u2014ten presidencies later<\/strong>. Even more damaging, the Rules of Engagement for killing Korean civilians were covered up until after four more U.S. wars. If U.S. policy for slaying Korean refugees had been exposed during that war, it might have curtailed similar killings in Vietnam (many of which were not revealed until decades after the war).<\/p>\n

Former congressman and decorated Korean War veteran Pete McCloskey warned<\/a>, \u201cThe government will always lie about embarrassing matters.\u201d The same shenanigans permeate other U.S. wars. The secrecy and deceit surrounding U.S. military interventions has had catastrophic consequences in this century. The Bush administration exploited the 9\/11 attacks to justify attacking Iraq in 2003, and it was not until 2016 that the U.S. government revealed documents exposing the Saudi government\u2019s role in financing the hijackers (15 of 19 were Saudi citizens). The Pentagon covered up the vast majority of U.S. killings of Iraqi civilians until Bradley Manning and Wikileaks exposed them in 2010. There is likely reams of evidence of duplicity and intentional slaughter of civilians in U.S. government files on its endlessly confused and contradictory Syrian intervention.<\/p>\n

When politicians or generals appear itching to pull the U.S. into another foreign war, remember that truth is routinely the first casualty. The blood of civilian victims of U.S. wars is the political version of disappearing ink.<\/strong> But the kinfolk and neighbors of those victims could pursue vengeance regardless of whether cover-ups con the American people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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