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While I don't doubt this particular story is accurate, I believe Mr.
Haney's story on Nogun-ri had some serious problems with primary
sources and other issues. This critique is one example; <br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rokdrop.com/2007/07/26/responding-to-the-bridge-at-no-gun-ri/">http://rokdrop.com/2007/07/26/responding-to-the-bridge-at-no-gun-ri/</a><br>
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Bruce Cumings wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:982F919D-F781-43A4-94CD-2D234885FFB2@uchicago.edu"
type="cite">Below is a very good report by Charles Hanley of Associate
Press, who was one of the AP reporters who brought the Nogun-ri
massacre to American attentions in 1999. In addition to his discussion
of American suppression of information about the Taejon massacre, note
that in his official history of the war, <i>South to the Naktong,
North to the Yalu</i>, with full access to secret documentation, Roy
Appleman blamed the Taejon massacre entirely on the North Koreans.
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;">Fear,
secrecy kept 1950 Korea mass killings hidden</span></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">By CHARLES J. HANLEY, AP Special Correspondent </font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">May 18, 2008</font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2"> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080518/ap_on_re_as/korea_mass_executions_covered_up"><font
style="color: rgb(0, 35, 233);" color="#0023e9"><u>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080518/ap_on_re_as/korea_mass_executions_covered_up</u></font></a></font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">SEOUL, South Korea - One journalist's bid to
report mass murder in South Korea in 1950 was blocked by his British
publisher. Another correspondent was denounced as a possibly treasonous
fabricator when he did report it. In South Korea, down the generations,
fear silenced those who knew.</font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">Fifty-eight years ago, at the outbreak of the
Korean War, South Korean authorities secretively executed, usually
without legal process, tens of thousands of southern leftists and
others rightly or wrongly identified as sympathizers. Today a
government Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to dig up the
facts, and the remains of victims.</font></div>
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style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"
face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">How could such a bloodbath have been hidden from
history?</font></div>
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style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"
face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">Among the Koreans who witnessed, took part in or
lost family members to the mass killings, the events were hardly
hidden, but they became a "public secret," barely whispered about
through four decades of right-wing dictatorship here.</font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">"The family couldn't talk about it, or we'd be
stigmatized as leftists," said Kim Chong-hyun, 70, leader of an
organization of families seeking redress for their loved ones' deaths
in 1950.</font></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font
style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"
face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
<div style="margin: 0px;"><font
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face="Arial" size="2">Kim, whose father was shot and buried in a mass
grave outside the central city of Daejeon, noted that in 1960-61, a
one-year democratic interlude in South Korea, family groups began
investigating wartime atrocities. But a military coup closed that
window, and "the leaders of those organizations were arrested and
punished."</font></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font
style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"
face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">Then, "from 1961 to 1988, nobody could challenge
the regime, to try again to reveal these hidden truths," said Park
Myung-lim of Seoul's Yonsei University, a leading Korean War historian.
As a doctoral student in the late 1980s, when South Korea was moving
toward democracy, Park was among the few scholars to begin researching
the mass killings. He was regularly harassed by the police.</font></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font
style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"
face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">Scattered reports of the killings did emerge in
1950 — and some did not.</font></div>
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face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">British journalist James Cameron wrote about
mass prisoner shootings in the South Korean port city of Busan — then
spelled Pusan — for London's Picture Post magazine in the fall of 1950,
but publisher Edward Hulton ordered the story removed at the last
minute.</font></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font
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face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p>
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face="Arial" size="2">Earlier, correspondent Alan Winnington reported
on the shooting of thousands of prisoners at Daejeon in the British
communist newspaper The Daily Worker, only to have his reporting
denounced by the U.S. Embassy in London as an "atrocity fabrication."
The British Cabinet then briefly considered laying treason charges
against Winnington, historian Jon Halliday has written.</font></div>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><font
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<div style="margin: 0px;"><font
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face="Arial" size="2">Associated Press correspondent O.H.P. King
reported on the shooting of 60 political prisoners in Suwon, south of
Seoul, and wrote in a later memoir he was "shocked that American
officers were unconcerned" by questions he raised about due process for
the detainees.</font></div>
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face="Arial" size="2">Some U.S. officers — and U.S. diplomats — were
among others who reported on the killings. But their classified reports
were kept secret for decades.</font></div>
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