Ex-Commandos Destroy Gravesite
As much as I don’t like pro-North Korean sympathisers, I do have to say that this is taking things to far:
About 10 former South Korean commandos used sledgehammers on Monday to smash up the tombstones of political prisoners buried in the South, who they said were North Korean sympathisers.
The commandos have sporadically staged flamboyant and often violent protests in recent years, including slaughtering a pig with the Japanese prime minister’s name on it over historical disputes between the Asian neighbours.
The former commandos issued a statement saying the description of six former political prisoners as “unification patriots” on their tombstones was “inappropriate and unacceptable”.
The graves are in a Buddhist cemetery 50 km (30 miles) north of Seoul.
The former soldiers, who were trained to infiltrate the communist North, were eventually removed by police from the cemetery, but some took away a few earthenware jars containing the cremated remains of political prisoners.
No matter what you political leanings maybe, it is just not acceptable to desecrate someone’s grave. Especially running off with the dead guy’s cremated remains. This is just weird and hopefully the South Korean legal system delivers harsh punishment on these people, but I have my doubts they will.
