Researchers excavate remains of Korean War massacre victims in Daejeon

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Researchers excavate remains of Korean War massacre victims in Daejeon
Posted on : Aug.13,2021 17:10 KST Modified on : Aug.13,2021 17:10 KST
By Choi Ye-rin Hankyoreh

...Shortly after the war broke out, Gollyeonggol, from June 28 to July 17 in 1950, was where prisoners from the Daejeon prison and left-wing civilians from both Daejeon and South Chungcheong Province were killed and buried. In late December 1992, declassified US documents exposed these atrocities to the world.

The first massacre from June 28 to 30 claimed an estimated 1,400 lives; the second — from June 3 to 5 — 1,800; and the third — from July 6 to 17 — 3,800 for a combined 7,000 who were known to be indiscriminately killed by the military or police. The eight pits they were buried in ranged in size from 30 to 180 meters and would collectively cover 1 kilometer...

https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1007646.html

The presence of remains of women and children among the executed has been confirmed. This wasn't an isolated event. Some background from Wikipedia:

Bodo League massacre

The Bodo League massacre (Korean: 보도연맹 학살사건; Hanja: 保導聯盟虐殺事件 ) was a massacre and war crime against communists and suspected sympathizers (many of whom were civilians who had no connection with communism or communists) that occurred in the summer of 1950 during the Korean War. Estimates of the death toll vary. Historians and experts on the Korean War estimate that the full total ranges from at least 60,000–110,000 (Kim Dong-choon) to 200,000 (Park Myung-lim).[2] The massacre was wrongly blamed on the communists.[3] The South Korean government made efforts to conceal this massacre for four decades. Survivors were forbidden by the government from revealing it, under suspicion of being communist sympathizers; public revelation carried with it the threat of torture and death. During the 1990s and onwards, several corpses were excavated from mass graves, resulting in public awareness of the massacre.[4][5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo_League_massacre