Over 100 Koreans Found Guilty of War Crimes after WWII ..

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Over 100 Koreans Found Guilty of War Crimes after WWIIThe government has confirmed that close to a hundred-and-50 Koreans were categorized as war criminals after the Second World War.
A report released on Tuesday says 148 Koreans were convicted of war crimes for serving as soldiers, prison guards and translators in the Japanese military.
The convicted are said to have been drafted by force while Japan exercised control over the Korean peninsula between 1910 and 1945.
Officers who directed the torture were given B-level war criminal status and those who carried them out were categorized as C-level war criminals.
23 of them were executed, while the rest served in prison between 1947 and 1957.
And even when the convicted completed their sentences they could not settle in Korea because they faced ostracism for cooperating with the Japanese.
Currently only 87 individuals have been cleared of their war criminal status after being identified as victims of forced enlistment by Korean activist groups.
Although the accused Koreans argue that they were forced to torture prisoners their claims have not been accepted by the Japanese government.
Kim Han-ul, Arirang News.

DEC 28, 2010 Reporter : chkim@arirangtv.com

 

Hmm, so the Japanese government has to give them pardons or simply acknowledge this detail so they can be granted by another nation?

 

Not suprising. Ex POWs memiors are filled with stories of the brutality of the Korean guards, often exceeding those of the Japanese guards