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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.

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TO JOIN THE TRIBUNAL in the June 23rd War Crimes Tribunal Please let us know by email that you want to join US:

KOREATRUTHCOMMISSION@HOTMAIL.COM Or IACENTER@IACENTER.ORG (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.

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Rev. Kiyul Chung,Secretary General, Korea Truth Commission
733 15th Street, NW room 515, Washington, D.C. 20005
email: koreatruthcommission@hotmail.com
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: iacenter@iacenter.org
web: http://www.iacenter.org
phone: 212 633-6646; fax: 212 633-2889