Get Used To The Karma
In Korea's `crying' cave, 100s died in US attack
"YEONGCHUN, SOUTH KOREA (AP) - The war refugees, frigid, laden with baggage, trudged down a mountain road on a winter's day in 1951, toward the safety of U.S. Army lines. But they were turned back at gunpoint, to return home to a fiery doom.
Within days, hundreds of the displaced villagers, crowding into a narrow cave, came under napalm attack from waves of U.S. Air Force planes. More than 300 died, mostly women and children, most trapped in the smoke and flames, some strafed when they fled, survivors say.
"People moaned and screamed and shouted in the darkness," recalled Cho Byung-woo, who escaped the inferno as a boy. "It was hell. How could they not tell civilians from North Korean troops?"
The 400 Souls in Amiriya Shelter
"(ICH) The Amiriya Bomb Shelter in western Baghdad is a reinforced concrete building that sheltered up to 1,000 civilians throughout the first Gulf War. The walls are several feet thick, designed specifically to withstand the blast of many types of bombs. It was always regarded as a safe haven for the civilians in the area. Each time the air raid sirens of Baghdad sounded, women and children, sometimes complete families, would seek shelter within its walls. The Coalition waging war on Iraq had the coordinates to the shelter, along with the acknowledgement that it was simply a shelter for civilians.
On February 13, 1991 at 4 in the morning it was hit by two American bombs, which incinerated the building, including all but ten of the 400 women and children seeking refuge inside of it."
US air strike wiped out Afghan wedding party, inquiry finds
"A US air strike killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, as they were travelling to a wedding in Afghanistan, an official inquiry found today. The bride was among the dead."
"YEONGCHUN, SOUTH KOREA (AP) - The war refugees, frigid, laden with baggage, trudged down a mountain road on a winter's day in 1951, toward the safety of U.S. Army lines. But they were turned back at gunpoint, to return home to a fiery doom.
Within days, hundreds of the displaced villagers, crowding into a narrow cave, came under napalm attack from waves of U.S. Air Force planes. More than 300 died, mostly women and children, most trapped in the smoke and flames, some strafed when they fled, survivors say.
"People moaned and screamed and shouted in the darkness," recalled Cho Byung-woo, who escaped the inferno as a boy. "It was hell. How could they not tell civilians from North Korean troops?"
The 400 Souls in Amiriya Shelter
"(ICH) The Amiriya Bomb Shelter in western Baghdad is a reinforced concrete building that sheltered up to 1,000 civilians throughout the first Gulf War. The walls are several feet thick, designed specifically to withstand the blast of many types of bombs. It was always regarded as a safe haven for the civilians in the area. Each time the air raid sirens of Baghdad sounded, women and children, sometimes complete families, would seek shelter within its walls. The Coalition waging war on Iraq had the coordinates to the shelter, along with the acknowledgement that it was simply a shelter for civilians.
On February 13, 1991 at 4 in the morning it was hit by two American bombs, which incinerated the building, including all but ten of the 400 women and children seeking refuge inside of it."
US air strike wiped out Afghan wedding party, inquiry finds
"A US air strike killed 47 civilians, including 39 women and children, as they were travelling to a wedding in Afghanistan, an official inquiry found today. The bride was among the dead."
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