[KS] 29 May, Washington Post: U.S. Policy Was to Shoot Korean Refugees

[Matthew Benuska]

No Gun Ri rears its ugly head again...

--Matthew Benuska

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U.S. Policy Was to Shoot Korean Refugees

By CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA

-- More than a half-century after hostilities ended in Korea, a document
from the war's chaotic early days has come to light _ a letter from the U.S.
ambassador to Seoul, informing the State Department that American soldiers
would shoot refugees approaching their lines.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/29/AR2006052900
485.html?referrer=emailarticle

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