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In the early days of the Korean War,air jordan pas cher, the U.S,abercrombie france. military implicitly connived with the South Korean army and police to carry out mass executions of left-wingers and their sympathizers to prevent them from joining enemy forces, AP reported Saturday.

The wire agency reported based on its own archival research in declassified documents from the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration that American officers observed, photographed and confidentially reported the wholesale executions by their South Korean ally.

AP said the “secretive slaughter” was believed to have killed 100,000 or more leftists and supposed sympathizers, usually without charge or trial, in a few weeks in mid-1950,louboutin. Its research found no indication that Far East commander gen,hollister deutschland. Douglas MacArthur took action to stem the killing,hollister.

The declassified record shows an equivocal U.S,woolrich outlet. attitude continuing into the fall of 1950, it said, when Seoul was retaken and South Korean forces began shooting residents who had collaborated with the northern occupiers. When Washington’s British allies protested, U.S,hollister. assistant secretary of state Dean Rusk told them U,abercrombie and fitch.S,louboutin pas cher. commanders were doing “everything they can to curb such atrocities,” according to a memo of Oct,air jordan. 28,casque beats, 1950,hollister. British troops at one stage seized “Execution Hill” outside Seoul to block further mass killings there.

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