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Dear Korea,
I love you guys, you know I really do. I can hang with the kimchi and I love sam gyep sal more than life itself. Recently hundreds took to the streets to prevent "Crazy Cow" disease from coming to Korea and stealing your retirement and promote Fan Death. I have already talked about how absurd the concerns about Mad Cow disease are earlier this month. I raise an eyebrow to all of this despite the fact that I am hardly a patriot.
So I get irrate when Koreans will go bonkers over beef and then weeks later the AP comes out with this report and it doesnt even appear in the paper. To save you the trouble of reading the long, but interesting article I can summarize it like this. In 1950-51 the Korean Rightist government, under US supervision, engineered the mass murder of 300,000 civilians under suspescion of being leftists. The Korean government has gone to great lengths to hide the murders and the mass graves. The US government has only reluctantly released its own previously classified and through documentation.
US beef = Riots in the street
Crimes against humanity committeed by the Korean Government against its own poeple = A resounding silence
War Criminals 1 : The Human Spirit 0
I do have one coworker that i felt comfortable enough to ask about it (not that I feared Koreans getting cross with me, I just knew that I would recieve overwhelming and deliberate ignorance as a reply). He is a member of the Trade Unions, just the kind of person that it seems they were murdering in 1950 and has actually been to North Korea. He confirmed everything and told me that him and some other union members had been to one of the abondoned mines that the government tried to hide the bodies in and found skeletons.
This is exactly the kind of mischief that Nationalism fosters. US Beef and Japanese atrocities during WWII seem to excuse the Korean government's crimes against its own people.
Lame %$#@ing Sauce,
EPIK Justino
