The bodies of some 400 Taejon residents, bound and slain by the retreating North Koreans before leaving Taejon, lie in and around trenches in the city’s prison yard Witnesses told American troops who recaptured the city that the victims had been forced to dig their own graves before the slaughter.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 7
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50The bodies of some 400 Taejon residents, bound and slain by the retreating North Koreans before leaving Taejon, lie in and around trenches in the city’s prison yard Witnesses told American troops who recaptured the city that the victims had been forced to dig their own graves before the slaughter. Otago Daily Times, Issue 27518, 12 October 1950, Page 7
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