Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spite of the talk of changes in com mand and improvements, things were still disgracefully out of hand on Koje...
...control. Kangaroo courts in many of the compounds tried, sentenced and executed opponents of the controlling faction, leaving bodies neatly laid out next morning for the U.N. guards to inspect. The struggle went on in the hospital camp on the mainland, near Pusan as well as on bloody Koje Island. Under such conditions, no fair or complete balloting on political preference was possible. Washington apparently did not realize this. Washington knew only that "voluntary repatriation" was morally impeccable, and also politically shrewd and foresighted...
...Koje's new boss, Brigadier General Haydon ("The Bull") Boatner, got orders to "obtain uncontested control" of the Red-controlled stockades. He ringed the compounds with tanks, machine guns and infantry, began building smaller, more manageable stockades (500 men to each), into which the prisoners will be dispersed. Two rifle companies of British Commonwealth troops were shipped to Koje, to spread the onus of disciplining the prisoners among as many nations as possible. Koje's 80,000 P.W.s were pinning down a six-nation tank and infantry force almost a division strong...
...Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet, on Koje to inspect the new precautions, everything looked fine & dandy, as it has all along to him. "I don't think there will be any more trouble," Soldier Van Fleet announced optimistically. "Bull" Boatner thought otherwise. "We can't get into those compounds," he fretted. "We can't take a roll-call. We don't know what they're plotting." But plotting they were...
...Communist doctors and medical orderlies at Koje hospital staged a sitdown strike for better food, the right to take regular sunbaths, and the removal of South Korean guards. "Damned absurd!" roared General Boatner. He ordered the strikers to report to him; when they balked, he clapped them behind bars...