KOREAN PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE FOR PEACE AND REUNIFICATION
Join us at an important public forum on the Korean people's struggle for justice, peace and self-determination, sponsored by International Action Center and One Korea L.A. Forum. Featured speakers will be Yoomi Jeong, the Deputy Secretary General of Korea Truth Commission, and Dierdre Griswold, who served as a jurist in the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal last year in New York City. Both speakers have been part of fact-finding delegations to Korea that visited sites of massacres of civilians by U.S. troops during the 1950/53 war. U.S. troops massacred tens of thousands of Korean civilians during the Korean war. It's now known that there were orders from the top brass to do so. There are more than 160 sites of massacres throughout the North and South. At some of them the remains of victims are still being excavated fifty years later. There is a growing movement in Korea that demands justice for victims of U.S. troop massacres, reunification of their country, and an end to U.S. occupation and Bush's war threats.The program will also include a screening of the BBC documentary about the U.S. troop massacre of hundreds of refugees at Nogun-ri, as well as a Korean cultural presentation.
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