In 1997, the famous American writer John F. Kennedy. Tolan, speaking at a university in Maryland, said of the massacre of volunteer prisoners of war on Geoje Island during the Korean War: "No matter how much the US military made from the perspective of justice in World War II, the behavior of the massacre of Chinese volunteer prisoners of war on Geoje Island has completely destroyed the beacon of democracy preached by the US government; and the democracy preached by the Americans is as smelly as Brigadier Dodd, who was captured by Chinese volunteer prisoners of war with dung and water!"
Well, by John. What cruel acts did Tolan call the stinking Brigadier General Dooder do to the Volunteer prisoners of war? And how did a volunteer prisoner of war capture an American general in a bucket of dung?
From the tribal period of primitive society, war has always accompanied the development of mankind. And as long as there is war, prisoners of war will inevitably appear. For the management of prisoners of war, how to treat prisoners of war and manage prisoners of war is also a touchstone of whether a country is hypocritical.
Obviously, in the treatment of prisoners of war, as a U.S. military that is causing trouble everywhere, whether it is in the Korean War or the Vietnam War, or later the Iraq War and the Afghan War, or even in Guantanamo Prison, the U.S. military has always played a disgraceful role.
During the Korean War, volunteer prisoners of war held on Geoje Island by the U.S. Military were severely beaten and tortured in the U.S. Prisoner of War camp. In order to resist the atrocities of the US military and expose the false propaganda of the United States in front of the world, the 602nd and 76th POW camps of the Volunteer Army secretly formed resistance groups to fight together with the captured Korean People's Army.
In the face of heavily armed U.S. troops, the 602nd Prisoner of War Camp first held a hunger strike. At the beginning of the hunger strike, the United States did not pay attention to it, but with the continuation of the volunteer prisoners of war hunger strike, the United States began to send people to negotiate with the representatives of the volunteer prisoners of war in order to calm international public opinion.
In order to paralyze the other side, the Volunteer 602nd Prisoner of War Camp made a request to the United States that it refuse to negotiate with anyone except Brigadier General Dud, the Supreme Commander of the Prisoner of War Camp on Geoje Island. After receiving the report, Brigadier General Dood was then escorted by a large number of armed guards to the 602nd prisoner-of-war camp, and after a brief intimidation, the arrogant Brigadier General Dodd believed that in the face of the strong armed pressure of the American army, the resistance of the volunteer prisoners of war had been psychologically destroyed, and a paralyzing psychology of arrogance was also generated.
After a period of observation, the 76th Prisoner of War Camp also began a hunger strike. After the experience of the last armed intimidation, the arrogant Brigadier General Dooder led only a dozen American troops to the 76th Prisoner of War Camp to negotiate with volunteer prisoners of war. In the course of the negotiations, in the face of a series of demands from the volunteer prisoners, the arrogant Dooder cut his nails loosely and responded to the requests of the volunteer prisoners of war perfunctorily.
At 3:20 p.m. on May 7, 1952, while negotiations were under way between the two sides, a group of volunteer prisoners of war carrying large buckets of dung passed by Dood. Faced with the pungent smell, the U.S. troops in charge of the guards ducked to the side. While the U.S. military was slackening its vigilance, the volunteer prisoners of war spilled a bucket of dung water on the American troops hiding nearby. Then, taking advantage of the chaos, the volunteer prisoners of war rushed to carry the stunned Brigadier General Dood into the camp. He immediately said: If the US side is willing to negotiate, it will ensure the personal safety of Dood; if the US military has other abnormal behavior, it will not be responsible for all the consequences caused by it.
In the face of the heroic acts of the volunteer prisoners of war, Dodd, who was captured alive, immediately issued an order: the American troops who rushed to reinforcements should be immediately withdrawn to a relatively safe distance from the 76 prisoner of war camp, and it was strictly forbidden to open the robbery.
On May 8, 1952, representatives of 17 prisoner-of-war camps on Geoje Island began negotiations with the U.S. Military. Dodd, who was captured by the volunteer prisoners of war, had no objection to the Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war's allegation that the US military used prisoners of war to conduct live experiments, forced the captured prisoners to betray the motherland, and inflicted inhumane abuse on the prisoners of war. At the same time, a foreign statement was issued, acknowledging the various atrocities committed in the US prisoner-of-war camp and apologizing to all Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war.
As the struggle between Chinese and DprK prisoners of war continued, and in the face of the pressure of world public opinion, Dodd instructed the Geoje Island Prisoner of War Administration and the volunteer prisoners of war representatives to sign the "Confession of Guilt of the US Prisoner of War Administration" and the "Complaint to the People of the World by the China-DPRK Prisoner of War Conference", on which Dodd signed as a representative of the Prisoner of War Administration.
After the incident, the disgraced U.S. government and the U.S. military were laughed at in front of the world. Brigadier General Dood, who was captured by volunteer prisoners of war with a bucket of dung, was called "General Dung" by the British "Renault News".
In order to save face, Clarke, the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Army at the time, issued a statement to the outside world saying that the reason for agreeing to the prisoners' requests at that time was to ensure the safety of General Doodd. Therefore, the commitment of the US military will also be interpreted accordingly according to the situation at that time. The implication is that any agreements signed with Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war at that time do not count.
In order to clean up the camp, on May 13, 1952, Clark issued a direct order to Bonath, deputy commander of the U.S. Second Division, who was responsible for guarding the camp.
On June 10, 1952, the Geoje Island Prisoner of War Administration guarded the U.S. army, and with the cooperation of the ELITE Composite Regiment of the U.S. Army airlifted from Tokyo, used tanks to open the way to launch a frenzied retaliation against Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war. In the face of the atrocities committed by the US military, the Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war in the prisoner-of-war camp on Geoje Island used a small number of indigenous weapons to launch a counterattack against the US troops.
In the face of the resistance of the prisoners of war, the angry and corrupt US troops actually used poison gas bombs and flamethrowers to carry out a crazy massacre of Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war. Subsequently, he used bayonets to mend the fallen Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war one by one. More than 400 Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war were killed or wounded within two hours, and the 76th prisoner of war camp was completely destroyed.
At the same time, in order to continue the deterrent effect, not only did they force Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war to carve reactionary slogans on their bodies, but they also took brutal acts of eye-piercing, open-bore, and heart-digging for more than 40 Chinese-North Korean prisoners of war who were inclined to repatriate.
With the passage of time, the smoke of gunfire 70 years ago has dissipated, and today's China is no longer the China of bullying, and the comprehensive national strength is thriving, but we should still remember the words of the teachers: Imperialism will not die! We should not forget the bloody struggle of our ancestors!