…the Armistice
"As early as the summer of 1950, when North Korean troops pushed the southerners back to the Pusan Perimeter, the US-led UN coalition command (the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Colombia, Turkey, Ethiopia, Thailand, the Philippines, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa all participated in the Korean War on the UN side) was confronted with the problem of mass graves in Daejon. In the first weeks of the war, Syngman Rhee's forces, supported by American military advisers, executed, according to various estimates, between 5000 and 7500 political prisoners—military personnel, merchants, intellectuals, and ordinary farmers suspected of communist sympathies.
On August 20, 1950, Time magazine ran a cover story with the headline "Barbarism," describing the Taejon Massacre as an event that would rank in its monstrosity alongside the Nanking Massacre and the Warsaw Ghetto. A short time later, the Pentagon-sponsored film "Crime in Korea" openly portrayed the atrocities of the South Korean government as the remnants of mass murder committed by North Korean soldiers…"
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