>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:34:46 -0500 >CALL TO ACTION BY INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER >AND KOREA TRUTH COMMISSION > >People's Investigation of U.S. War Crimes Against Korea Grows > >International Grass Roots Groups Organize for June 23rd NYC War >Crimes Tribunal > >DOES YOUR GROUP WANT TO BE LISTED AS AN >ENDORSER? > >Since September of 1999, evidence of 160 instances of US led >military attacks on Korean non-combatants during the Korean war >have surfaced. Hundreds of thousands of children, women, and aged >people are believed to have been massacred as a result of orders >from U.S. military brass. Because of the right wing atmosphere >whipped up during the McCarthy era, an anti-war response in the >United States never came about, and these horrific crimes never >reached the U.S mass media. Consequently, Washington and their >long series of south Korean client regimes have been able to suppress >the Korean people�s cry for justice. > >On June 23rd, 2001 south Korean activists (including some who are >survivors of such attacks), and Koreans from Japan, the United >States and other Korean communities around the world, will meet in >New York City to take part in a war crimes tribunal. The tribunal will >be the culmination of a people�s investigation of the role of the US led >military during the war. The investigation has included a series of trips >to south Korea during which activists visited massacre sites, >interviewed survivors, and saw evidence that refuted the U.S. >contention that the numbers of those Korean civilians killed by US led >troops during the war have been exaggerated, and that any killings >were the result of panic or poor training of troops. They also >attended demonstrations against the continued division of Korea and >against the continued presence of 37,000 U.S. troops. > >They will be joined by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark >and other progressive and anti war activists. Representatives from the >15 other countries that participated in the war will also be present. >They will put the Washington DC war-makers on trial for their crimes >against the Korean people. > >TO ENDORSE THE CALL for the June 23rd War Crimes Tribunal e- >mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and type Korea War Crimes >Tribunal in the subject line. > >CALL TO ACTION > >In September of 1999, the associated press began publishing a series >of articles that were the results of a long investigation of an incident >that took place at the south Korean village of NoGun-ri in July of >1950. Hundreds of villagers were pinned beneath a bridge for 3 days >as US military forces strafed them from aircraft, raked them with >machine gun fire, and fired mortars at them. It is believed that some >400 villagers were massacred. This My Lai-like episode was only the >most prominent among many that were brought out by the AP in the >ensuing months. There is evidence that the mass executions of >perhaps 100,000 prisoners by the south Korean regime was done with >the complicity of their sponsors in Washington DC. What emerged in >the AP series and from other sources was not �mistakes by panic >stricken troops� as the current US investigation of NoGun-ri implies � >but rather a systematic campaign of extermination that targeted the >broad and progressive Korean resistance movement. This movement >was fighting against the U.S. imposed division of their 5,000 year old >culture, and against being colonized by the United States after they >had fought so long and hard to be free of Japanese imperialism. Like >the Palestinian Intifada, and like the people�s movement of Colombia >today, the Korean people wanted self-determination. > >The International Action Center, and the Korea Truth Commission to >Investigate U.S. War Crimes have jointly called for this important war >crimes tribunal in order to expose the true nature of the U.S. war >against Korea. This call for action is not for the sake of posterity � >but to strengthen the worldwide struggle for self-determination today. >What happened in Korea is scarcely different than the U.S. bombing >of a pharmaceutical factory in August of 1998 in Sudan, or the >carnage at the Highway of Death during the U.S. war against Iraq in >1991. > >Only a people�s campaign in solidarity with the Korean fight for self- >determination and justice can end the continued U.S. presence and >domination of northeast Asia. We hope that your organization can >endorse this very important organizing effort and can join with us on >June 23rd in New York City. > >TO ENDORSE THE CALL for the June 23rd War Crimes Tribunal e- >mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and type Korea War Crimes >Tribunal in the subject line. > >Or fill out the following form: >___ Yes, add my name/my organization's name to the endorsers' list >for June 23rd. >Name: ______________ >Name of organization: _______________________ (* if for >identification purposes only) > >____ Yes, I can contribute to help this mobilization (suggested >donation for endorsing organizations: $100, $50, or $25 depending on >ability; donations can be sent to the IAC) >____ Yes, I can organize transportation to NYC and be an organizing >center for the mobilization. >____ Please send me literature by mail to help promote the June 23rd >tribunal. > >Korea War Crimes Tribunal, a project of the International Action >Center > >International Action Center >39 West 14th Street, Room 206 >New York, NY 10011 >email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >web: http://www.iacenter.org >CHECK OUT SITE > http://www.mumia2000.org >phone: 212 633-6646 >fax: 212 633-2889 >*To make a tax-deductible donation, >go to > http://www.peoplesrightsfund.org > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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