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Titolo: Ex-prison guard tells of mass killings in 1950 Korea; 'Please shoot me,' one inn

Ex-prison guard tells of mass killings in 1950 Korea; 'Please shoot me,'
one innocent begged
JAE-SOON CHANG
AP News
May 18, 2008 12:18 EST
The prison guard scanned the trench full of bodies, under orders to shoot
anyone still alive, when he heard a cry from below that still echoes in
his mind: "Mr. Chief! Please shoot me."
The 25-year-old guard, Lee Joon-young, complied with a squeeze of his
45-caliber pistol's trigger, ending the suffering of one victim of the
mass executions carried out by South Korean authorities in the early days
of the Korean War.
In just a few weeks in mid-1950, the military and police killed thousands
of known leftists and suspected leftist sympathizers, as well as ordinary
convicts and peasants wrongly caught up in anti-communist sweeps. South
Korean leaders feared they might help invading troops from communist North
Korea.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Korea, a state fact-finding
body, is now investigating these wholesale slaughters, which commissioner
Kim Dong-choon says took at least 100,000 lives.
The commission estimates as many as 7,000 perished in the killing field in
Daejeon's Sannae valley, 90 miles south of Seoul, believed to be the
1950-53 war's biggest single civilian massacre.
"Even now, I feel guilty that I pulled the trigger," Lee told The
Associated Press.
Lee, who was in charge of trucking hundreds of inmates from Daejeon Prison
to Sannae, said they included some hardcore communists convicted of crimes
against the nation, but also many men innocent of major crimes.
A small stone monument to the victims marks what is believed to be the
biggest burial site here, a field covered with a crop of Korean root
vegetables in a secluded, narrow valley of farms and few homes. Buried at
the monument are two earthen jars holding bones turned up by farmers. The
commission is negotiating with landowners about excavating the site.
The slim, ramrod-straight Lee, who has cooperated with the commission
investigation, was interviewed at a Seoul hospital where he'd undergone a
checkup. As his wife sat quietly by in a hushed corridor, he acted out the
horrible scene from a half-century ago.
"Suppose this is the rim of a trench. People were dragged and sat down
here," he said, pointing. "Then shooters came behind each of them and
fired on the back of their heads."
Members of right-wing militias helped, rearranging bodies neatly across
the trench, so others could be shot and buried on top, Lee said.
"When they got out of the trench, their legs were red with blood," Lee
said. "Watching the scene, I grew speechless."
The wounded man who begged Lee to end his suffering was no subversive, but
a simple robber who had about a year left after serving a long prison
term, he said. It had been decided to shoot all prisoners sentenced to 10
years or more, regardless of their crimes or time left to serve.
What especially pains Lee still, at age 83, is the way the man addressed
him at the final moment of his life.
"He should have said to me, 'Hey, you bastard, give me another shot!' How
could he address me as 'Mr. Chief?'
"I thought, there should never again be war," Lee said.
Source: AP News 
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 one innocent begged
sei proprio alla canna del gas eh...

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source AP NEWS, coglionazzo.
Si doveva ignorare questa notizia, secondo te?

.sergio. ha scritto:
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*** correggo, sei semplicemente OT: postala su it.cultura.STORIA.militare
E sottolineo STORIA.

 ..sergio. ha scritto:
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a tempo debito. Ne vale la pena, secondo te?
 
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guarda ovunque... attiva radar... attiva sonar.... nessun segnale...
Un thread sulla korea davvero senza Barone ????
davvero singolare....
Saluti,
Dott. Piergiorgio.