From: Mark Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 07:51:35 -0500 > CALL TO ACTION > BY > KOREA TRUTH COMMISSION / INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER > > > Help the People's Investigation of U.S. War Crimes Against Korea > > Join International Grass Roots Groups Organizing for War Crimes Tribunal, > June 23rd, NEW YORK CITY > > WE INVITE YOU/YOUR ORGANIZATION'S DELEGATION TO JOIN US IN THIS HISTORIC > PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL > > Since September of 1999, evidences of more than 160 instances of > US-led > military attacks on more than 2.5 million Korean non-combatants > (Washington > Post, June 13, 2000 ) during the Korean War have surfaced. Hundreds of > thousands of children, women, and elderly people are believed to have been > > massacred as a result of orders from the top U.S. military leadership. > Because of the anti-communist/right wing atmosphere whipped up during the > McCarthy era, an anti-war opposition in the United States never developed, > > and the U.S mass media never revealed these horrific crimes. > Consequently, > Washington and its long series of south Korean client regimes have been > able > to suppress the Korean people's cry for justice. > > On June 23rd, 2001 Koreans (including some who are survivors of such > > attacks) from both north and south Korea, and from Canada, Europe, 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 in massacres of civilians during the war. > > The investigation has included a series of trips to south Korea > during which activists visited massacre sites, interviewed survivors, and > saw evidences that refuted the U.S. contention that the numbers of Korean > > civilians killed by US-led troops during the war have been exaggerated, > and > that any killings were not due to commanders' orders but to panic and > inexperience of the troops. > > The investigation teams to south Korea also attended demonstrations > protesting the continued division of Korea and the continued presence of > 37,000 U.S. troops who have committed more than 100,000 crimes against > civilians since 1953. Due to the notorious U.S. arbitrary agreement with > its client south Korean regimes on the status of U.S. troops, only less > than > 1 % of those despicable crimes have been brought to Korean legal systems. > > The participants from both Koreas and overseas Korean communities > will be > joined by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark and other progressive > and > anti war activists throughout the country. Representatives from the 15 > other countries that participated in the war will also be present. They > will put the U.S. government, particularly the Washington DC war-makers, > on > trial for their crimes against the Korean people. > > JOIN US IN THE HISTORIC EFFORT TO BRING TRUTH TOLIGHT! > > In September of 1999, the Associated Press began publishing a series > of > articles resulting from a long investigation of a massacre 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, mowed them down 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 > were > carried out with the complicity of their commanders/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. What happened in > Korea is scarcely different than the carnage at the Highway of Death > during > the U.S. war against Iraq in 1991, the U.S. bombing of a pharmaceutical > factory in August of 1998 in Sudan, or the bombing of civilians in Panama > or > Yugoslavia. > > > The Korea Truth Commission, and International Action Center 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. However > > this call for action is not for the sake of accusation regarding the past, > > but for a TRUE RECONCILIATION which will be possible only after the truth > is > fully told. > > Only a people's campaign in solidarity with the Korean fight for > truth, > self-determination and justice can succeed in revealing the whole truth > about the war the U.S. illegally waged 50 years ago, and end the division > > of Korea and the continued presence 37,000 U.S. troop in south Korea. We > invite your organization to endorse this historic event and join us in > New > York City, on June 23rd. > > > TO JOIN THE TRIBUNAL in the June 23rd War Crimes Tribunal > Please let us know by email that you want to join US: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Or > [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 participant' list > > for June 23rd and Peace March June 24th - 25th. > 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 KTC) > Korea Truth Commission > #255071981-27434129 > Chevy Chase Bank, 2351 > Randolp Road, Silver Spring > MD 20906, U.S.A > ____ 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. > > > Yours in solidarity, > > > Rev. Kiyul Chung,Secretary General > Korea Truth Commission > 733 15th Street, NW room 515 > Washington, D.C. 20005 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http:// www.koreatruthcommission.org > (will be available by the end of Jan.) > phone: 202 347-4666 > fax: 202 347-4994 > > Mr. Ramsey Clark,former US Attorney General > International Action Center > 39 West 14th Street, Room 206 > New York, NY 10011 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.iacenter.org > phone: 212 633-6646 > fax: 212 633-2889 > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
