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Friday, April 21, 2000
Korean War massacres revealed
The Associated Press
DOKCHON, South Korea
SOUTH Korean soldiers and police
South Korean soldiers link cases -- observed at times by U.S. Army officers -- executed more than 2,000 political prisoners without trial in the early weeks of the Korean War, according to declassified U.S. military documents and witnesses.
Supreme commander Gen. Douglas MacArthur became aware of at least one of the mass shootings, according to documents originally classified top secret.
The new information, detailed in reporting by The Associated
Press and a Korean researcher, substantiates what some historians have long believed: Large numbers of South Korean leftists arrested by the right-wing regime secretly were killed as its forces retreated before the North Korean army in mid-1950, apparently to keep them from collaborating with the communist invaders.
Subsequently, during their brief occupation of the south, the North Koreans executed many suspected rightists. Those killings, once discovered, were widely publicized in the Western press.
tions was suppressed for decades under this country's former military rulers. Relevant South Korean records were destroyed, researchers believe. But victims' families recently began speaking out, and human bones have been unearthed at mass burial sites.
Witnesses described brutal mass shootings. A retired South Korean admiral told the AP that 200 people, never put on trial, were taken offshore to be shot and dumped into the sea.
Victims' families have petitioned the South Korean government for investigations of at least 10 alleged civilian massacres by South Korean police and soldiers.
Chinese party expels senior official
The Associated Press
BEIJING — China's ruling Communist Party expelled a senior official yesterday and ordered him prosecuted for allegedly taking a fortune in bribes to marry his mistress — the latest hurdid corruption scandal besetting the nation's leadership.
ity deals, amassing $4.6 million.
Party investigators say Cheng Kejie, a deputy chairman of the national legislature who headed a poor southern province, took kickbacks to approve building projects, promotions and commod-
For years, corruption has pervaded public life here, undermining popular acceptance of communist rule. Cheng is one of the most senior officials ensnared in a recently renewed years-long anticorruption campaign. His allegedly ill-gotten take is among the largest ever divulged by the government, far surpassing the $850,000 in illegal earnings for which a deputy provincial governor was executed last month.
Chinese leaders hope to use such high-level prosecutions to prove
their determination to punish the powerful and assuage public anger about pervasive official graft.
"Our party will definitely show no mercy to the corrupt," the party newspaper People's Daily said in an editorial read on state television yesterday. "There are no hiding places in the party for corrupt officials."
party leaders approved Cheng's expulsion and his prosecution following a probe by the party's internal watchdog commission, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
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