Not exactly how I expected to start my Monday news reading:
I don't know how it is done in other countries, but in the United States it is common practice to seal certain classified materials for 50 years, to make sure that those involved are either dead or at least gone from government service by the time the material is released to the public. 50 years used to be enough, but nowadays it feels like just yesterday, so it wouldn't surprise me if the powers-that-be are already fighting to increase that limit to 75 or more years.
DAEJEON, South Korea - 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.
[From Korean War executions unearthed - Asia-Pacific - msnbc.com]
The sad thing is that whatever uproar this could create is going to get drowned by politics, the end result being that nothing will be done about this. After all, our position will be that we didn't do anything, we just saw it and decided to shut up (plus what the hell, the Democrats were in charge). The North Koreans will say they didn't do anything, it was THEIR people that got executed. The South Koreans will try to blame the North Koreans for it, or ask why the Americans did not stop them.
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