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The No Gun Ri massacre (Korean: 노근리 양민 학살 사건) was a mass killing of South Korean refugees by U.S. military air and ground fire near the village of Nogeun-ri (노근리) in central South Korea between July 26 and 29, 1950, early in the Korean War.
Along with the My Lai atrocity 20 years later in Vietnam, the killings discovered at No Gun Ri mark one of the largest single massacres of civilians by American forces in the 20th century.
Massacre at Nogun-ri. At the beginning of the Korean War, US Army ground troops of the 7th Cavalry executed civilian refugees over the course of four days. Fifty years after the fact, the world is learning about the massacre and trying to understand how crimes against humanity could occur, even during times of war.
Members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment dug in near No Gun Ri and only three days into their time at the war front opened fire on the civilians. One veteran recalls being instructed “fire on everything, kill ’em all.”
The Bridge at No Gun Ri is a non-fiction book about the killing of South Korean civilians by the U.S. military in July 1950, early in the Korean War.
In the summer of 1950, in the first weeks of the Korean War, U.S. military forces opened fire on a group of South Korean civilian refugees at a railroad trestle in a place called No Gun Ri. Survivors estimate that up to four hundred died, mostly women and children.
The No Gun Ri Massacre occurred over several days, from July 26 to July 29, 1950, near a double railroad bridge in the village of No Gun Ri in central South Korea. As the North Korean army advanced southward, thousands of South Korean civilians fled their homes, hoping to escape the violence.
For nearly fifty years, the No Gun Ri in-cident languished in the backwaters of military history. Despite understand-able Korean interest, few American re-searchers delved into this difficult period until early 1999, when AP corre-spondents Charles Hanley and Martha Mendoza uncovered a “smoking gun,” a confessed U.S. Army massacre
The No Gun Ri archives is a place where No Gun Ri discussions are shared and materials about No Gun Ri are brought together. This is not a typical archival collection that provides historical documents, but a space for all to builde the collective memory of No Gun Ri.
The No Gun Ri incident happened between July 25 and 29, 1950 during the Korean War in the vicinity of No Gun Ri. The My Lai incident occurred between March 16 and 17, 1968, in Vietnam. In all three cases, the U.S. forces were involved in killing a large number of noncombatants.