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...regime of Syngman Rhee, during which many an outrage was perpetrated in the name of "anti-Communism," built a long legacy of hatred. Last week the dammed-up hatred was discharged in an ugly incident at Shinwon. 160 miles southeast of Seoul...
Route to Ambush. Even when peace came, the Rhee authorities refused the villagers redress. In fact, no Shinwon survivors dared visit the mass grave because those who went were immediately put on the government's list of suspected Communist sympathizers. When Democratic Party Assemblyman Suh Min Ho called for an investigation, the government soon hustled him off to jail on hastily trumped-up charges. When the Assembly persisted and dispatched an investigating committee to Shinwon, the legislators were ambushed en route and forced to flee for their lives. Posing as an expert, Colonel Kim blandly identified the ambushers...
...Promotion. Kim was cashiered, but was quickly promoted to greater power. With his marked talent for seeing the critics of the government through Red-colored glasses, the Rhee government named him chief of all the national police...
...caretaker government. Everywhere, officials of the old regime were being accused, scorned or arrested. The Ministry of Finance set up screening committees charged with first identifying corrupt tax officials, then ferreting them out. The head of the Bank of Korea revealed that his institution had been used by Rhee officials to get kickbacks on loan applications. The police haul included Kang Hak Lee, chief of all Korea's police, who was charged with embezzling $120,000 from police funds and with printing fake Communist leaflets to stuff in the pockets of dead student rioters. To show its loyalty...
...tear gas, but ordered his troops to avoid strong-arm tactics. "The army will stay aloof from politics," declared the government. As for the hated Assembly, it was willing to bring charges against five of its Liberal Party members and expel them. But the legislators, pro and anti Rhee alike, seemed in no hurry to vote themselves out of office before the new elections expected in July...