No Gun Ri Massacre Ends: US Army Killed 300 Korean Refugees
The shooting stopped on July 29th when the 7th Cavalry Regiment simply moved on. Four days. Between 250 and 300 South Korean refugees—mostly women and children—lay dead under a railroad bridge at No Gun Ri, killed by American soldiers who'd been warned about North Korean infiltrators disguised as civilians. The Army denied it happened for fifty years. Clinton apologized in 2001 after AP reporters found survivors and veterans who'd kept silent for decades. Turns out the first question in any war isn't who's the enemy—it's how you tell the difference.
July 26, 1950
76 years ago
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