Al-Hillah Massacre

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{| border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;width:400px;border-collapse:collapse;"	Date	October 3, 2017
Place: 	
Al-Hillah, Iraq 	 	
Conflict 	World War III, Korean-Daesh War	 	
The Al-Hillah Massacre was a major event in World War III that occurred during the Asian Theater of the War (Particulary the Korean-Daesh War) and also considered one of the biggest war crimes during the war. It is also the incident that officially begins the Korean-Daesh War in the Asian Theater. On October 3, 2020, in retaliation against the Islamic State of New Palestine's violation of the nonaggression pact it signed with the Democratic Empire of Korea, KPA Special Forces soldiers were deployed to Al-Hillah in Iraq and massacred thousands of militants and civilians in the IS-occupied city of Al-Hillah, much to the disgust of the international community.
==Course of events==
The exact timeline of events that led up to the actual massacre are a mystery. However, was is known by the international community comes from surviving witnesses of the attack. According to data collected by interviews with the surviving civilians, a battalion of soldiers from the Korean People's Army Special Operations Forces, also known as Unit 525, entered Al-Hillah at about 8:30 PM local time. Then gunfire erupted around the city and the local civilians began fleeing, initially mistaking the Special Forces operatives as rogue Chinese People's Liberation Army soldiers. However, some people realized the soldiers were actually Korean upon hearing them speaking the Korean language. The survivors claimed that they had survived the massacre either by hiding in their homes, or playing dead. The KPA soldiers were supposedly heard cursing the Islamic State for violating an "agreement" (the nonaggression pact) between the Islamic State and the Koreans, and were taking their anger out on as many Muslims as possible. 
In addition to slaughtering the inhabitants, the interviewees claimed, the Koreans also pillaged the city, looting whatever they could find in people's homes while rampaging through the city. At about 10:00 AM that day, the soldiers were seen burning copies of the Qu'ran and setting Islamic State flags on fire whilst laughing and jeering. They even began playing around with the corpses of the victims they'd gunned down. The KPA soldiers then left at about 11:00 AM, three hours after the massacre initially started.
==Reactions==
Countries across the globe condemned the massacre, with Raven referring to it as "Korea's act of terrorism". The UN specifically condemned the attacks, calling it "barbaric". Kim Song-Il did not make any comments concerning the incident, but Korean news sources later claimed that the people responsible for the incident were "rogue soldiers who had betrayed the Leadership of Korea". However, to the rest of the world, it was clear that the massacre was a deliberate act of aggression.
==Trivia==
*This incident could possibly be a throwback to the My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.