The Law of War

Chaplain–
Medic
massacre
Bloody
Gulch
massacre
Hill 303
massacre
Sunchon
Tunnel
Massacre
War crimes
(Murder of
wounded
military
personnel
and a
chaplain)
War crimes
(Murder of
prisoners of
war)
War crimes
(Murder of
prisoners of
war)
June 18, 1950, of 700 to 900 doctors, nurses,
inpatient civilians and wounded soldiers at the Seoul
National University Hospital, Seouldistrict of South
Korea. [123][124][125] During the First Battle of Seoul, the
North Korean Army wiped out one platoon which
guarded Seoul National University Hospital on June
28, 1950. They massacred medical personnel,
inpatients and wounded soldiers. The North Korean
Army shot or buried people alive. The victims
amounted to 900. According to the South Korean
Ministry of National Defense, the victims included 100
South Korean wounded soldiers.
North Korea On July 16, 1950, 30 unarmed, critically
wounded U.S. Army soldiers and an
unarmed chaplain were killed by members of
the North Korean People's Armyduring the Battle of
Taejon.
North Korea On August 12, 1950, 75 captured U.S.
Army prisoners of war were executed by members of
the North Korean People's Army on a mountain above
the village of Tunam, South Korea, during one of the
smaller engagements of the Battle of Pusan
Perimeter.
North Korea On August 17, 1950, following a UN airstrike on Hill
131 which was already occupied by the North Korean
Army from the Americans, a North Korean officer said
that the American soldiers were closing in on them
and they could not continue to hold the captured
American prisoners. The officer ordered the men
shot, and the North Koreans then fired into the
kneeling Americans as they rested in the gully, killing
41.
North Korea 180 American prisoners of war, survivors of the
Seoul-Pyongyang death march, were loaded onto a
railroad car and brought to the Sunchon tunnel on
October 30, 1950. Prisoners, who were already
suffering from lack of food, water, and medical
supplies were brought in groups of approximately 40
ostensibly to receive food and were shot by North
Korean soldiers. 138 Americans in total died; 68 were
murdered, 7 died of malnutrition, and the remainder
died in the tunnel of pneumonia, dysentery, and
malnutrition on the trip from Pyongyang.
Rudolph Rummel estimated that the North Korean Army executed at least
500,000 civilians during the Korean War with many dying in North Korea's drive
to conscript South Koreans to their war effort. Throughout the conflict, North
Korean and Chinese forces routinely mistreated U.S. and UN prisoners of war.
Mass starvation and diseases swept through the Chinese-run POW
camps during the winter of 1950–51. About 43 percent of all U.S. POWs died
during this period. In violation of the Geneva Conventions which explicitly stated
that captor states must repatriate prisoners of war to their homeland as quickly
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