Word: koje
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Koje, the bleak and bloody island where the U.N. holds 130,000-odd Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war, strife between Communist and anti-Communist factions is constant, relentless and apparently uncontrollable. Recently, among the North Koreans in Compound 93, the anti-Reds got the upper hand, and the enclosure was suddenly converted to freedom. Work parties from 93 began to sing South Korean songs and wave homemade R.O.K. flags as they were marched to & from their jobs...
...struck him in the face and knocked him down. When he regained his senses, the South Korean guards were shooting through the wire. It was soon over; but twelve of Compound 92's Communists were killed, 26 wounded. Said the U.S. Second Logistical Command, which is responsible for Koje: "Quiet has been restored, and all prisoners are complying fully with the orders of the authorities...
...Battle of Compound 62 Compound 62 is one of the toughest in the prison camp on Korea's Koje Island. Communist leaders among the 5,900 civilian internees hold mass demonstrations, sing Communist songs, refuse to work, and intimidate the other prisoners with beatings and occasional murders...
Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...discussed." Communist truce mechanics, equipped with monkey wrenches, seemed determined to keep the truck stalled. Last week they: 1) threatened to make a truce issue of Peking's charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted as one of the six "neutral" nations on the truce commission...