[image ID=a tweet from the account @nodutdol, reading "On July 26, 1950, the No Gun Ri Massacre began. For three days, US soldiers butchered 400 Korean refugees hiding in a tunnel. The US and South Korea denied this history until 1999. No Gun Ri is just the most famous of 200 reported civilian massacres by US troops in the south. 🧵" attached is a greyscale photo of two tunnels situated in a hilly landscape.
the following four pictures are slides with text, sourced to Nodutdol. they read:
"TESTIMONIES FROM SURVIVORS & PERPETRATORS
"They were shooting at us from this side. We ran out the other side, but they were shooting at us there, too." - Keom Choja, age 12 in 1950
"They were checking every wounded person and shooting them if they moved" - Chung Ku Hun, survivor, age 17 in 1950
"It was assumed there were enemy in these people." - Herman Patterson, ex-rifleman
"The command looked at it as getting rid of the problem in the easiest way… shoot them in a group." - Edward L. Daily, ex-machine gunner
"We just annihilated them." - Norman Tinkler, ex-machine gunner
No US Army records on the No Gun Ri Massacre were ever found. However, in 2000, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon received a captured North Korean document in August 1950 which described the discovery of 400 bodies at No Gun Ri.
The 2001 South Korean report on the massacre mentioned a South Korean ex-US intelligence agent who claimed to have confirmed the massacre for the US by interviewing local villagers in the fall of 1950.
"Indescribably gruesome scenes… shrubs and weeds in the area and a creek running through the tunnels were drenched in blood, and the area was covered with two or three layers of bodies." - North Korean newspaper Chosun Inminbo, August 19, 1950
After the AP report, the US and South Korean governments published separate reports in 2001.
The US acknowledged an "unknown number" of people died at No Gun Ri, but denied that orders were given to shoot them. The US report suggested the massacre could have been an accident, or provoked by refugees attacking soldiers.
President Bill Clinton wrote a statement of "regret" for civilians who "lost their lives" at No Gun Ri. The US has never apologized, taken responsibility, or offered compensation for the massacre.
The South Korean report noted that key US documents were mysterious unable to be found during the investigation. National Security Director Oh Young-ho said, "We believe there was an order to fire."
No Gun Ri survivors denounced the US report as a "whitewash" of history. Six years later, the US Army admitted it had found but did not disclose a letter from the US ambassador addressed to the Secretary of State from the day the No Gun Ri Massacre began. The letter read: "If refugees appear from north of US lines they will receive warning shots, and if they then persist in advancing they will be shot.""
this slide contains a greyscale photo of statues of a group of people carrying packs. it's captioned as "Commemorative statue at No Gun Ri Memorial Peace Park, built in 2015."
the final pictures are screenshots of tweets by @nodutdol. the first reads: "The No Gun Ri revelations opened the floodgates to other Korean War survivors' testimonies, which had been suppressed by decades of US-backed fascism and the anti-free speech National Security Law. In 2005, the South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission was formed." attached is a screenshot of a slide reading:
"Summary of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report:
9,461 reports of civilian massacres
Evidence for 1,461 massacres found, including 200 done by U.S. troops
82% of massacres involved US or ROK forces"
the final tweet reads: "No Gun Ri is the most famous US massacre from the Korean War, but it's not the only one. No Gun Ri exposes the US myth of "saving" or "liberating" Korea. In practice, the US saw all Koreans as "gooks"—racially inferior threats to be controlled or eliminated." attached is a black and white photo of a group of Korean people with their hands on their heads, watched by a soldier with a gun. the group is walking down a dirt road, and in the background a destroyed building is billowing smoke. /end ID]
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