AP IMPACT: US wavered over S. Korean executions (AP)

Courtesy Ytop stories  Sun, 07/06/2008 - 12:42pm

In this photograph taken by the U.S.<br /><br />Army in April 1951, provided by the U.S. National Archives, South Korean troops shoot political prisoners near Daegu, South Korea.<br /><br />The South Korean government's Truth and Reconciliation Commission is investigating such mass political executions during the Korean War, and the U.S. military's connection with them.<br /><br />(AP Photo/National Archives, U.S. Army)AP - The American colonel, troubled by what he was hearing, tried to stall at first.

But the declassified record shows he finally told his South Korean counterpart it "would be permitted" to machine-gun 3,500 political prisoners, to keep them from joining approaching enemy forces.



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