Chapter 51 3. Inhuman behavior

While the negotiations were delayed due to the issue of prisoners of war, the volunteers and prisoners of the Korean People’s Army who were detained in the US military camp became more and more dissatisfied with the fake "screening" and real coercion by the US, and their resistance became more and more fierce, until something happened. The incident in which the prisoners of war captured Brigadier General Dude, the commander of the US POW battalion. As early as the beginning of the negotiations on the issue of prisoners of war, the U.S. military secretly arranged "screening" in the prisoner of war camps.Cruel fascist methods such as massacres, beatings, and tattoos were used to oppress prisoners of war who expressed their desire to return home.According to the history of US military warfare, on December 18, 1951, 14 prisoners of war were killed and 24 prisoners of war were wounded; 22 people died after being sent to the hospital, and more than 140 people were injured.

On April 4, 1952, the United States conducted a second round of "screening" and continued to mutilate prisoners of war on a larger scale.According to the investigation reported by the General Command of the Korean People’s Army on June 26, 1953, on April 6, more than 3,000 prisoners of the Korean People’s Army were forcibly “screened” at the No. 96 Prisoner-of-War Camp on Geoje Island; On April 8, more than 30 prisoners of war were killed; on April 14, more than 1,500 people were wounded; on the same day, more than 70 prisoners of war who requested to be repatriated from Camp No. 93 were called to line up in the square Later, he was shot and killed by the U.S. military.

There are places like interrogation rooms in the US prisoner-of-war camps, which are specially used to torture the captured personnel of the Korean People's Army and Volunteer Army.The U.S. military called these places "Monkeyhouses", which contained cages, steam chambers (SteamCamber), and torture tools such as leather whips and wooden sticks.As long as the people being interrogated refused to accept the "screening" or expressed their desire to be repatriated, they were dragged here to be beaten, with nails pierced into their fingernails and palms, or steamed, and some people were tortured to death in this place.Similar tragedies have occurred in every prisoner-of-war camp on Geoje Island when they resisted the "screening" of the American prisoner-of-war management authorities.In addition to the methods mentioned above, the U.S. military tortures prisoners of war by cutting off their mouths and noses, cutting off their tongues and ears, pulling out their nails and hair, burning them with fire, branding them with a soldering iron, boiling them in boiling water, freezing them in cold weather, and icing them in ice water. Hungry food is considered light.Female prisoners of war were subjected to inhuman torture. Some were pulled out and raped, and some even gave birth to children after being raped.

In order to intimidate prisoners of war from expressing repatriation, the U.S. military also encourages false "screening" in prisoner-of-war camps.Before the official "screening", the traitors and secret agents under the command of the US military first "screened", and as long as anyone expressed his opinion and returned to his country, he would be beaten or killed severely, creating a terrorist atmosphere in the prisoner-of-war camp, so that a large number of prisoners of war would be "screened" during the official "screening". I dare not express my desire to return to my country, to go home.

Communists among prisoners of war were also subjected to political persecution.Some were forced to have anti-communist tattoos tattooed on their bodies, forced to write blood letters requesting to go to Taiwan or stay in South Korea, forced to sing anti-communist songs and shout anti-communist slogans, and forced party members to write collectively to quit the party and the league It is stated that using this method will cause an impact and prevent prisoners of war from returning home. Who can imagine that the US government is forcing the will of prisoners of war every day in the prisoner-of-war camps when it solemnly demands on the table that they should not be forced to repatriate them.The U.S. government's "no forced repatriation" is literally "no forced repatriation".

The brutal actions of the United States have been resisted by prisoners of war from beginning to end. In early May, the already unbearable prisoners finally took drastic action. Korean People's Army prisoners of war in Camp No. 76 held a demonstration to protest against the "voluntary repatriation" measures of the U.S. military and the unprovoked killing of prisoners of war, and demanded negotiations with the commander of the U.S. prisoner-of-war camp, Brigadier General Du De. On the 7th, under the pressure of the prisoners of war, Dude came to the No. 76 prisoner-of-war camp under the escort of heavily armed military police.Although Dude came to the prisoner-of-war camp, he responded to the questions raised by the prisoners in vain, and made every possible sophistry about his violations of the Geneva Convention.In order to safeguard their right to life, the prisoners of war were forced to take extreme measures.When the guards were not paying attention, they quickly took Dude into the prisoner of war camp.Dude became a "prisoner of war", which is the "Dude incident" that shocked the world.

After Dude was captured, the North Korean prisoners did not treat Dude as roughly as soldiers under Dude's command treated prisoners of war.The prisoners of war only took Dude as a hostage, demanding that the United States pay attention to the voices of the prisoners in North Korea and China, stop the mandatory "screening" and improve the treatment of prisoners of war. On May 8, the U.S. military had to agree to the proposal proposed by the prisoners of war that the representatives of each prisoner-of-war camp elected by the captured personnel from North Korea and China would hold a representative meeting in the No. 76 prisoner-of-war camp.

On the 10th, Brigadier General Colson, newly appointed by the U.S. to replace Dodd, on behalf of the U.S. prisoner-of-war administration, agreed to the four conditions put forward by the representatives of the Korean and Chinese prisoners of war, and reached an agreement with the representatives of the prisoners of war, promising to treat prisoners of war humanely in accordance with the principles of international law. Treatment, immediately return the representatives of the prisoners of war to the camps without any retaliation.In this way, the North Korean prisoners of war released Du De.

After Dude was released, the United States immediately violated the agreement and began to plan the persecution of prisoners of war.First, representatives of the prisoners of war, except women, were all detained in the No. 76 prisoner-of-war camp.Then the prisoners of war were massacred. On June 10, the U.S. military mobilized tanks and armed soldiers to surround Camp No. 76 on Geoje Island.The U.S. military ordered all the prisoners of war to gather in the square, and then opened fire with tanks, guns, cannons, and flamethrowers.According to the records of the U.S. war history, 31 prisoners of war were killed and 139 were injured on the spot in this massacre.According to the memories of the prisoners who witnessed the bloody massacre, more than 300 prisoners were killed or injured.

The killing of prisoners of war by the US military has been condemned by the whole world.At the negotiating meeting, representatives from North Korea and China complained about the atrocities committed by the U.S. military, but the U.S. representatives could not face it.The military history of the U.S. military evaluates its principle of "voluntary repatriation" in this way. Regarding the accusations made by North Korea and China, "it is difficult for the United Nations Command to refute. Internationally, the United Nations The reputation of the Army Command has been severely damaged." "could overshadow the UN Army's principle of non-use of force to repatriate prisoners of war".

At the same time, the United States also used another rogue-like method to deal with prisoners of war.The DPRK and China disagreed with its "voluntary repatriation", so they unilaterally announced the release of the prisoners of war, creating a fait accompli.From late June to mid-August, they unilaterally released 27,000 prisoners of the Korean People's Army as civilians and handed them over to the South Korean authorities. A further 11,000 people were released starting in early October. In mid-July, the U.S. military will notify the DPRK-China negotiating delegation of the results of the "screening" again.This time, the number proposed by the United States is 83,000, which is 13,000 more than the number of "screening" last time.But among the 83,000 people, 76,600 were prisoners of war from the Korean People's Army, accounting for about 80% of the number that should be repatriated; 6,400 were prisoners of war from the Volunteer Army, accounting for 32% of the number that should be repatriated.The United States intends to use this method to sow discord between the two parties and the two militaries of China and North Korea. In order to reach an armistice agreement as soon as possible, the DPRK and China are even ready to accept the US proposal conditionally.It is believed that if the United States is really willing to cease the war, it should propose to repatriate at least 90,000 of the 116,000 prisoners of war it has admitted. "Although this number is not all repatriation, it is already the vast majority of repatriation." "We are ready to reach an agreement with it, and keep the remaining 20,000 people until after the truce to continue the solution."The DPRK and China decided to repatriate all the more than 12,000 prisoners of war from the other side.However, the U.S. did not consider the concessions from the DPRK and China, and used its air force to bomb the towns and power facilities in northern North Korea on a large scale, trying to force the DPRK and China to accept its plan.The governments of North Korea and China have firmly rejected the U.S. proposal. The situation of the negotiations further deadlocked.At the negotiation venue, both sides felt that their words had been exhausted.Harrison recess became almost a regularity.From late July to the end of September, only eight delegation meetings were held in more than 70 days without any progress. On September 28, the two delegations met again. Harrison announced three options for the "voluntary repatriation" of prisoners of war approved by Truman: First, after the armistice took effect, all prisoners of war would be taken to the exchange place in the demilitarized zone. However, if any prisoner of war claims to be willing to return to the side that detained him during the verification, he shall be allowed immediately and given the status of a civilian; second, after the armistice takes effect, the prisoners of war who are willing to repatriate shall be exchanged quickly, and the prisoners of war who oppose the repatriation shall be sent to the To the demilitarized zone, the military control of both sides is lifted, and the neutral country consults the prisoners of war to choose the side they are willing to go to; the third is to quickly exchange the prisoners who are willing to repatriate after the armistice takes effect, and send the prisoners who oppose the repatriation to the demilitarized zone in batches, so as to lift the military control of both sides. Control, let him go to the party he wants to go freely, without consulting, etc.Harrison called the plan "final, firm, and unalterable." Based on the consistent performance of the United States, the DPRK and China believe that this proposal by the United States is another deceitful plan, because it is impossible for North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war to freely express their demands for repatriation under the control of secret agents of the Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek clique instructed by the United States. will.The DPRK and China rejected the U.S. plan and proposed that after the armistice, all prisoners of war be sent to the demilitarized zone to be taken over by the other side, and then the prisoners of war should be interviewed, classified and repatriated by nationality and region.The U.S. representative did not consider the proposal from the DPRK and China at all, and announced an indefinite adjournment at that time.