SMRs and AMRs

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Letter Reveals U.S. policy of shooting at civilians at No Gun Ri

by CHARLES J. HANLEY and MARTHA MENDOZA
Associated Press Writers

Six years after declaring the U.S. killing of Korean War refugees at No Gun Ri was ``not deliberate,'' the Army has acknowledged it found but did not divulge that a high-level document said the U.S. military had a policy of shooting approaching civilians in South Korea.

The document, a letter from the U.S. ambassador in South Korea to the State Department in Washington, is dated the day in 1950 when U.S. troops began the No Gun Ri shootings, in which survivors say hundreds, mostly women and children, were killed.

Exclusion of the embassy letter from the Army's 2001 investigative report is the most significant among numerous omissions of documents and testimony pointing to a policy of firing on refugee groups - undisclosed evidence uncovered by Associated Press archival research and Freedom of Information Act requests.

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