“And again, it is a glass house where the Koreans are concerned, since they were noted to be the most vicious of the Japanese units.”
I’ve heard this before, actual statements from former U.S. POW’s. Apparently a lot of the Koreans got put on guard detail and would take their frustrations out on the prisoners and were frequently more savage at it than their Japanese counterparts.
American presence in the Philippines began when the United States sought Philippine assistance in their war with Spain, promising independence from Spanish colonial rule. But after winning that war, the US "purchased" the Philippines from Spain for $20 million in 1898. To enforce its “ownership” of the Philippines, the US military brutally slaughtered over a million Filipinos (15% of the population) during the Philippine-American War, the longest war in American history (1899-1913).
Newsweek April 8th-15th. "Koreas Dark Secret" Gregory Beals
The article points out these figures U.S.A population 250,000,000 annual abortions 2,500,000 S.Korea population 48,000,000 annual abortions 2,300,000
South Korea Number 4 in the World Cup and number 1 in baby slaughter!! And a Korean agency has the stastical proof to back all this up!!
Or to put it another way - There are 13,000,000 South Korean women that are able to have children and they dispose of 2,300,000 every year... gee that's umm... 1 in 6 South Korean women that are able to bare children will visit a quicky abortion mart to get a quick cut every year. Oh and one last statistic- of those 2,300,000 South Korean abortions 15% were sliced up because they were identified as female in an ultrasound!!
All of this information is freely available from the Korean Planned Family Association.
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/295730091.html?did=295730091&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Feb+27%2C+2003&author =Richard+C.+Paddock&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=THE+WORLD%3B+A+History+of+Hostility+in+Philippines%3B+U.S.+ troops+aiding+fight+against+rebels+may+find+some+islanders+avenging+long-ago+atrocities. A History of Hostility in Philippines U.S. troops aiding fight against rebels may find some islanders avenging long-ago atrocities. By Richard C. Paddock LA Times Staff Writer February 27, 2003
During the American campaign, Philippine historians say, U.S. troops under Gen. John J. Pershing committed atrocities against the Tausugs. The troops massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people, including women and children, they say. Photos taken at the time show American soldiers standing amid hundreds of bodies.
http://www.dangerouscitizen.com/Articles/945.aspx Bush's claim that the U.S. freed Filipinos strains the truth, bodes ill for Iraq and probably sets Mark Twain spinning. By Amy Kaplan Los Angeles Times October 24, 2003 I heard President Bush, in a speech Saturday before the Philippine Congress, refer to our history in that country as a "model" for establishing democracy in Iraq. Alluding to the 1898 Spanish-American War, he said, "America is proud of its part in the great story of the Filipino people. Together our soldiers liberated the Philippines from colonial rule."
Instead, the U.S. annexed the Philippines in 1899 and waged a brutal war to enforce its rule across the archipelago. Nearly 5,000 American soldiers died, and historians estimate that 250,000 Filipinos perished — 20,000 were killed in combat and the vast majority died from disease and starvation. The U.S. Army burned villages and fields, massacred civilians and herded the residents of entire provinces into concentration camps.
http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa022402a.htm Using a proper name for the body of water between the Korean peninsula and the Japanese archipelago is not simply a question of changing the name of a geographical feature.
It is rather a part of national effort by the Korean people to erase the legacy of their colonial past and to redress the unfairness that has resulted from
24 Forum In memory of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Today it's 60 years ago that an atomic bomb, nicknamed 'Little Boy', hit the Japanese city Hiroshima. Over 140,000 people were killed by the bomb and its aftermath. However the total number of casualties is estimated to be 242,437 since a lot of people died many years later because of radiation. Only 3 days after Hiroshima a second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, which killed above 77,000 people.
Today, nine countries possess roughly 30,000 nuclear weapons - enough to destroy the planet many times over, most of them belonging to the US and Russia.
Lets hope the tragedy of 60 years ago won't be repeated.