What the records say
- When
- 28 Jun 1950 – 16 Jul 1950
- Kind
- Massacre
- Deaths
- 7,000
- Coordinates
- 36.35° N, 127.39° E
- Description
- US-ROK war crime during the Korean War
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Bodo League massacre
1950 anti-communist massacre in South Korea
The Bodo League massacre was the mass killing of alleged communists and communist sympathizers by South Korean forces in the summer of 1950, during the Korean War. Many victims were civilians who had no connection to communism or communists. Estimates of the death toll vary, with historians estimating that between 60,000 and 200,000 people were killed.
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