South Korean (ROK) soldiers were heavily involved in the US-Vietnam war and had a reputation for being effective but brutal. Maybe this is related to that?
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zzzz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can you please elaborate? I’m curious to know.
Polarsailor@kbin.social 6 months ago
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
In total, between 1965 and 1973, 312,853 South Korean soldiers fought in Vietnam; Vietnam’s Ministry of Culture and Communications in an unofficial investigation[6] estimated they killed 41,400 enemy fighters and 5,000 civilians.[7] After the Vietnam war, there were thousands of children of mixed Korean and Vietnamese descent, called Lai Dai Han, born of Korean workers or soldiers and local Vietnamese.[8] Reportedly, many resulted from widespread “My Lai-style massacres” that[9] involved the rape of Vietnamese Women by South Korean soldiers.[8] Various civil society groups continue to hope for a formal investigation and apology into these events.[10]
yamanii@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Wait they also never apologized but still pester Japan about it?
curiousPJ@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yikes so they literally did onto others what others have done to them.
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 6 months ago
We really start needing to draft into combat roles the families of leaders. There would have been no Vietnam war if John John was deployed