Question: Before the Ganghwa massacre, 140 people were executed in Ganghwa in what is known as which war crime against communists and suspected sympathizers that occured in the summer of 1950?

PROFUNC, an acronym for "PROminent FUNCtionaries of the communist party", was a top secret Government of Canada project to identify and observe suspected Canadian communists and crypto-communists during the height of the Cold War.  In operation from 1950 to 1983, the goal of the program was to allow for quick internment of known and suspected communist sympathizers in the event of war with the Soviet Union (USSR) or its allies. <SEP>  Estimates of the death toll vary.  It has been estimated that the number of victims killed is between 100,000 and 200,000.  The number of Bodo League members killed in Ulsan, Cheongdo County and Kimhae alone, where the number of confirmed victims was almost exactly 4,934, was almost exactly 30 to 70 percent of the press alliance members massacred and more than 100 people to more than 1,000 people were killed in each county unit respectively.  The massacre was wrongly blamed on the communists.  For four decades the South Korean government concealed this massacre.  Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers. The Bodo League massacre (Hangul: 보도연맹 학살사건 ; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺事件 ) was a massacre and war crime against communists and suspected sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection with communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War.  Public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death.  During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre. <SEP> The Ganghwa massacre (Korean: 강화 양민학살 사건 , Hanja: 江華良民虐殺事件) was a massacre conducted by the South Korean forces, South Korean Police forces and pro-South Korean militiamen, between 6 and 9 January 1951, of 212 to 1,300 unarmed civilians in the Ganghwa county of the Incheon metropolitan city in South Korea.  Before this massacre, 140 people were executed in Ganghwa in what is known as the Bodo League massacre in 1950.  The victims were collaborators with the Korean People's Army during North Korean rule. <SEP> The Lottery of Huruslahti (Finnish: "Huruslahden arpajaiset" ) occurred in Varkaus, Finland, and classified as a war crime in the Finnish Civil War, in which approximately 90 "Red" prisoners were executed by the White troops, after the Battle of Varkaus in 1918.  It was the first application of the "shoot on the spot" proclamation, which ordered that all Red leaders, agitators, saboteurs caught red-handed, and whoever had actually participated in violence should be shot without trial, defining this as justifiable homicide rather than a death sentence.  It was claimed by the Reds that the White troops, after the battle of Varkaus, ordered all the captured Reds to assemble in a single row on the ice of Huruslahti, selected first all leaders and then every fifth prisoner, and executed them on the spot.  However, although the number executed was 10% if the accused, the Whites individually selected each victim based on known identities and acts of violence rather than randomly.  Furthermore, the condemned were first separated from the rest and then shot in groups of five.  The legality of the event been debated; it was apparently embarrassing to the White leadership already at the time: there was no declaration of war, and the apparent legality was completely based on a military order, not law as conventionally required.  However, the general amnesty laws adopted after the war absolved all perpetrators from judicial responsibility.