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During the Korean war, the US imperialists committed the hideous massacres of civilians unprecedented in the world history of war.

The massacres were committed according to the policies of the government and military of the US and military orders of those who commanded the war.

In the early days of the war, the US Department of Defense mandatorily distributed the copies of a booklet to American officers and soldiers participating in the war. The first page of the booklet said: The government is paying dollars for you, and so US soldiers must become merciless and skilled killers in Korea.

This was, in fact, the policy guidelines and a manslaughter order of the US government.

MacArthur, commander of the US forces in the Far East, issued to the US imperialist aggressor troops leaving for the theatre of war a special order: Koreans are different from Americans, so you should not be kind to them. Be merciless and merciless.

Walker, commander of the US 8th Army during the war, told the soldiers, “Kill everyone! Do not let your hands tremble even when those who appear before you are children or old people. By doing so, you will be saving yourselves from catastrophe and fulfilling your duty as the soldiers of the UN Forces.”

The US troops who occupied Sinchon County in South Hwanghae Province in October 1950, were hell-bent on killing civilians according to a butchery order to bury in ashes everything living in the area.

They detained many people in the air raid shelter below the building of the Sinchon County Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on October 18 and poured petrol in it to burn them to death. They buried alive more than 320 and 330 people in the trench around the air raid shelter respectively on October 19 and 23.

From the latter part of October to late November, the US imperialists threw more than 1 600 living people tied up together in the Sowon and Pogu reservoirs and shot them to death. They also killed 400 mothers and 102 children locked in a powder magazine by setting fire to it and throwing hand grenades into it.

Over 35 380 civilians equivalent to a quarter of the population of Sinchon County were killed during the US imperialists’ 50-odd-day-long occupation of it. Among them there were over 16 200 women.

The US imperialists committed such massacres across the country without hesitation.

At the Unnyul Mine the aggressors killed over 2 000 workers and their families by binding them in groups of ten or more with wire pierced through their stomachs, plunging them alive in a pit and throwing muck over them. At the Ragyon Mine they murdered more than 800 people by throwing them into a shaft well over a hundred metres in depth.

The massacres by the US imperialists reached their height when the Korean People’s Army started its re-advance. While fleeing, the enemy forced the people in the occupied areas to go with them before massacring them by bombing and strafing them.

The aggressors used in the killings of the people all kinds of methods such as quartering, pulling them along with their noses or ears pierced with wire, gouging their eyes out and cutting off their bosoms, hammering nails on their foreheads, pressing them with rocks or square bars, skinning them or cutting off their lips and tongues.

More than 1.2 million civilians were brutally killed in the DPRK due to the US imperialists’ massacre during the three-year war.

A member of a fact-finding commission from the women’s international democratic federation, who investigated the atrocities of the US imperialists in Korea in May 1951, said that the concentration camps set up by the Hitler clique were infamous ones that killed people with poisonous gas, but the atrocities committed by the US imperialists in the country were several times more horrible than those of the Hitler clique.

The massacres committed by the US imperialists in the country were a wanton violation of international law banning the massacre of civilians and a hideous crime aimed at exterminating the Korean nation.