At the onset of the Korean War first thing that was done was all suspected leftists were executed

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,356539,00.html

Researchers Discover Remains of Thousands Executed During Korean War

Sunday, May 18, 2008

Associated Press

Grave by mass grave, South Korea is unearthing the skeletons and buried truths of a cold-blooded slaughter from early in the Korean War, when this nation's U.S.-backed regime killed untold thousands of leftists and hapless peasants in a summer of terror in 1950.

With U.S. military officers sometimes present, and as North Korean invaders pushed down the peninsula, the southern army and police emptied South Korean prisons, lined up detainees and shot them in the head, dumping the bodies into hastily dug trenches. Others were thrown into abandoned mines or into the sea. Women and children were among those killed. Many victims never faced charges or trial.

The mass executions — intended to keep possible southern leftists from reinforcing the northerners — were carried out over mere weeks and were largely hidden from history for a half-century. They were "the most tragic and brutal chapter of the Korean War," said historian Kim Dong-choon, a member of a 2-year-old government commission investigating the killings.

Hundreds of sets of remains have been uncovered so far, but researchers say they are only a tiny fraction of the deaths. The commission estimates at least 100,000 people were executed, in a South Korean population of 20 million.

[MrScorpio]

1. It's easy to explain how fascists ran South Korea until the 1980's

There was no one left to moderate them

[dixiegrrrrl]

2. That happened in many many countries when the right wing took power.

It has happened so often that most leftists know they are targets.

I did not know about So. Korea however. Wow.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Communist party - Stalin - murdered over 400,000

You can hardly say it is a "Right Wing" thing

[malaise]

3. That has long been the model

:puke:

[Ozymanithrax]

4. It also happened in countries where the left wing took power (Stalin, Pol Pot)

Murders on a grand scale are committed by totalitarian monsters on both sides of the political spectrum.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Were there U.S. military officers watching Stalin or Pol Pot?

[Ozymanithrax]

7. U.S. military backed the right wing government Pol Pot destroyed...

Then Pol Pot murdered more than a million people in the Killing fields.

The U.S. Military watching Stalin? You must be kidding. No, he murdered around 20 million all on his own. He was as leftist as you can get, as well as being a totalitarian dictator.

We are offended by what happened in Korea, but we do need to recognize such excesses happen under left wing governments outside our control.

[Warren Stupidity]

8. You should have stuck with Stalin.

a) we deliberately created the conditions that allowed Pol Pot to take power by installing an only somewhat less murderous rightwing regime to replace the neutral Sihanouk government in our campaign to spread the war to Cambodia.

b) after the Vietnamese stepped in and tossed the murderous Pol Pot regime out, we backed their guerrilla war against the new government for at least 10 years.

The point is not that leftist authoritarian regimes have not been murderous thugs, the point I think is that we have enabled assisted and encouraged rightist authoritarian regimes around the planet for at least the last 50 years.

[Pavulon]

10. Stalin killed millions (plural). We have lots of catching up to do...

really stalin trumps any of the people we backed to serve our interests around the world.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. Ah yes of course, it is a numbers game.

What is the actual total killed by rightwing authoritarian regimes by the way? Those indonesian fuckheads killed at least one million, by most tallies. We accounted for on the order of at least one million dead in southeast asia from our policies there. South America piled the bodies fairly high under our tutelage. Why go there? Authoritarian regimes are bloody nightmares. The crap from the left does not justify the crap from the right. Measuring the corpse piles is stupid. The point is to not aid and abet this sort of stuff.

[Pavulon]

15. Correct, the guys at the edge are bloody. We should

avoid involvement unless it is vital to us interests.

[indepat]

16. And toppled any number of governments in the process so democracy and freedom

(American-styled unfettered capitalism) can flourish? :P

[jberryhill]

9. Did someone say Stalin?

Does preventing Hitler from stopping Stalin count?

[Greyhound]

11. Interesting how the mass-murders of Pol Pot, Stalin, and even Hitler are presented as "left wing"

when accounts/discoveries these atrocities are released.
:kick: & R

[WinkyDink]

12. And some people like to claim conspiracies cannot be kept secret for decades.

[chat_noir]

14. "Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War" - USA title

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0386064/

Highly recommended. Think that you can rent it on Netflix.