PRISONERS ON ISLAND
Soviet Accounts Of
Treatment
MOfecGW, May 50. Ifi Moscow last night a mass meeting of citizens protested at what was called the, “butchery 1 ' of Korean prisoners en Kbje island. . . All the 2 principal afi newspapers to-day Carried a fuii-page report of the meeting with such banner headlines as “Angry Protest Against Bloody Crimes of American Aggressors meeting, called by the Peace Cbmmittee, the Red Cross Society and the trade unions, Kbje .was described as a death caitup wofsfe than Auschwitz of Buchenwald., , The Communist Parte newspaper, and alsb "Red Star ahd “Ned Fleet,” space to a condemnation bi the American commanders in Korea for violation of The Hague ahd Geheva CbhVfentiohS. Their editorials referred to “attotitteS, murders and bfutautles.” “Pravda” said: “Raek torture and mass murder of war prisoners are usual in Kbje Island. Prisoners of war are tormented with red-hot irons, ahd hung head dbwhWatds white. Water is poured Tn thfeir, nbstrik They,, are gdrma."
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26746, 2 June 1952, Page 7
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160PRISONERS ON ISLAND Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26746, 2 June 1952, Page 7
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