Nogeun-ri massacre
| Korean spelling | |
|---|---|
| Korean alphabet : | 노근리 양민 학살 사건 |
| Hanja : | 老 斤 里 良民 虐殺 事件 |
| Revised Romanization : | Nogeun-ri yangmin haksal sageon |
| McCune-Reischauer : | Nogŭn-ri yangmin haksal say |
In the Nogeun-ri massacre in late July 1950 during the Korean War, hundreds of Korean refugees died as a result of targeted shelling by US troops near the village of Nogeun-ri, Hwanggan-myeon, Yeongdong -gun, Chungcheongbuk-do . According to official information so far, this should have been an oversight, but according to more recent information there is a possibility that shooting was carried out on orders and that it could be a war crime by the USA .
prehistory
On June 25, 1950, the North Korean army crossed the demarcation line at the 38th parallel , thus triggering the Korean War. Within four days she had captured the South Korean capital Seoul and quickly advanced to the southern port city of Busan . The United States had already deployed troops to Korea before landing at Incheon , but they were initially unable to stop the North Koreans' advance.
course
On July 26, 1950, a battalion of the 7th US Cavalry Regiment holed up near Nogeun-ri. While fleeing from the advancing North Korean troops, 500 to 600 residents of the surrounding villages also reached the position. There they were asked to leave the street and suddenly came under fire from US fighter planes . According to Korean eyewitness reports, around a hundred people were killed without the American ground forces intervening. After the attack, the survivors fled under a nearby railway bridge but continued to be fired at by the ground troops. The refugees were shot at even at night after spotlights were turned on.
Victim
Korean witnesses put the total number of victims at Nogeun-ri at around 400. This would make it the second largest known massacre and war crimes that US troops committed against civilians after the Second World War, after the My Lai massacre .
filming
The massacre was filmed by the independent production Soldiers of the Apocalypse - A Little Pond , which premiered in 2009 at the Busan International Film Festival .
literature
- Axel Frohn: We just killed her. Spiegel-Online, July 25, 2006.
- Charles J. Hanley, Martha Mendoza: US Policy Was to Shoot Korean Refugees Washington Post , May 29, 2006.
- The No Gun Ri massacre . Documentary by Marc Wiese (2006), broadcast on ARD (video, 42 min.).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Washington Post, May 29, 2006, accessed September 16, 2010.
Coordinates: 36 ° 13 ' N , 127 ° 53' E