Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week Brigadier General Francis T. Dodd, commander of the U.N. prison camp on bloody Koje Island, was standing at the gate of Compound 76, talking to a group of prisoners inside, most of them hard-core Communist North Koreans. With him was one of his staff, Lieut. Colonel Wilbur Raven. As they talked, the compound gate was opened to let a work detail out. Suddenly a group of prisoners darted out, seized the two U.S. officers, and started to drag them into the barbed-wire enclosure. Raven saved himself by clinging to the gatepost until U.S. guards rushed...
Thus began the most bizarre and humiliating (to the U.S.) of the innumerable Communist rebellions on the prisoners' island of Koje...
Prisoner Rule. General Dodd is a candid, friendly man who has admitted openly that he does not understand Communists. A 52-year-old, Indiana-born West Pointer, he is a former deputy chief of staff of James Van Fleet's Eighth Army. After Koje's most violent riot last February, he was sent to the island to take over command from Colonel Maurice Fitzgerald. He found a bad situation. U.S. personnel were reluctant to enter some of the fanatical Communist compounds. The Communists elected their own leaders and councils, ran their enclosures like self-contained Red fortresses, organized...
...this time, Generals Ridgway, Van Fleet and Mark Clark (who took over the U.N. command during the trouble) were thoroughly indignant. Washington had been consulted, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff immediately started directing the strategy on Koje. Twenty tanks were sent to the island, prepared for trouble. General Colson sent another and much firmer message to the Red rebels...
...Peking radio charged that, with the knowledge and tacit consent of the Red Cross, U.N. doctors had been performing Nazi-style medical experiments on Red prisoners of war both on Koje Island and on an LST set up as a "special floating laboratory." Therefore, the Peking radio insisted, the Red Cross is tarnished with U.N. crimes and unfit to investigate anything...