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Korea International War Crimes Tribunal, June 23, 2001, New York

“The criminal intervention of the United States and its occupying military forces has been the dominant fact in the life of every Korean for the past fifty-five years.”

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“The acts of the US gov’t & its agents violated the most fundamental charters, covenants, treaties & principles of int’l law, the laws of the US, the laws of Korea & the laws of other nations forced to provide bases, support & military personnel for US actions against Korea.”

“The U.S. gov’t has violated the Convention on Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948 over several lengthy periods of time by killing Koreans & inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring abt the physical destruction of the Korean population in major part”

“The most harmful political offense was the artificial div. of Korea at 38th parallel & hermetic sealing of the north, which has almost completely separated families, friends, orgs., communications, trade & commerce, w/disastrous social, economic & cultural consequences....”

“Offenses committed involved the systematic murder of masses of people in towns and villages thought to be communist, socialist or sympathetic to the people of northern Korean or the DPRK.”

“There were widespread assassinations in cities and towns of individuals or groups considered leftist, including peasant and labor leaders, writers, editors, professors and intellectuals.”

“There were large-scale arrests, torture, murders and deaths among several hundred thousand prisoners held in cruel, inhuman and degrading conditions. Thousands of political prisoners died in prison, many hundreds spent thirty to forty years, or more, in prison.”

“U.S. forces & ROK forces w/ U.S. encouragement & training attacked & killed civilians in all parts of Korea. The recent public disclosure of deliberate attacks on civilians in the 1st days of the war at... No Gun-ri, illustrate the nature of many attacks from the ground & air.”

“Cities, towns & villages were devastated by artillery, aerial bombardment & fire which destroyed most buildings & dwellings in large communities of northern Korea.”

“The use of illegal weapons & biological & chemical warfare caused conditions calculated to destroy a major part of the population. Excessive and illegal force was used against northern Korea combatants and prisoners by U.S. forces.”

“It is estimated that 3,000,000 Korean civilians in the north & 500,000 in the south died from war related causes. The northern Koreans are estimated to have suffered 640,000 battle deaths and 400,000 non-combat deaths from disease & other causes directly attributed to the war.”

“U.S. forces and surrogate southern Koreans carried out thousands of skirmishes and raids against northern Korea's territory and shipping, and extreme repression in southern Korea symbolized by the Kwangju massacre of May 18, 1980.”

“Economic interference by the U.S. and a devastating blockade calculated to... radically reduce available food, medicines, health care & medical capacities causing widespread malnutrition, weakening of the population, increasing susceptibility to diseases, illnesses & epidemics.”

“Over this period of 48 years, unlawful U.S. policies and actions have caused many hundreds of thousands of deaths in Korea leaving it to be one of the most isolated and impoverished nations, as a result of external forces on earth.”

“The U.S. created and supported a police state in southern Korea using it to eliminate nationalist patriots, peasants seeking land reform, communists, socialists and all elements sympathetic to Korean people in the DPRK, killing hundreds of thousands....”

“The US government has acted at all times to provoke tension and threats between the ROK and the DPRK, opposing and disrupting any plans for peaceful reunification, or to achieve peace and stability in the region, seeking to strengthen the ROK and weaken the DPRK....”

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The US trained, directed & supported the ROK in systematic murder, imprisonment, torture, surveillance, harassment & pervasive violations of human rights of society generally & the destruction of organizations believed to be communist, socialist or sympathetic to the DPRK....”

“The United States government must make full disclosure of the truth from all its records and the memories of its former and present personnel of all crimes and wrongful acts it has committed, and caused against the people of Korea since September 8, 1945.”

”The United States government must clearly and openly demonstrate that it will honor the sovereignty, independence and human rights of the people of Korea and all other peoples....”

Signed by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark

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