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Across the ten-foot barbed wire, the 5,500 Indian guards watched keenly for the first signs of the mass breakout they dreaded. Korean veterans called the Indians one of the best outfits they had seen -cracker-crisp Rajputana Rifles in bottle-green turbans and berets, Dogras. Jats. Mahrattas, disciplined so they could take P.W. spittle in the face without a murmur, which they often...
...P.W.s to listen for five or ten minutes." Would P.W.s have to take more than one explanation? He did not think it possible. Would the 90-day explanation period be lengthened, as the Communists demanded? Not unless both sides agreed. (The U.N. does not.) Could his men stop a breakout? Yes, but "with terrible slaughter." Would he stop...
...Order That Man." At India's request, the U.S. warned Syngman Rhee against breaking the peace at Indian Village, as South Korea had threatened. The U.N. command pulled back South Korean marines from positions where they could have helped a breakout, and replaced them with U.S. marines...
...There was considerable doubt, however, that the Indians would prove equally competent to handle the skulduggery sure to take place when the Communists get their chance to "explain" to each prisoner why he should change his mind and accept repatriation. And they were not prepared for a possible mass breakout attempt by the thousands who plainly feared the arrival of the Red "explainers." "If one or two P.W.s try to escape, we will shoot them," explained one Indian officer. "If there is a mass breakout attempt, we will do the best we can to stop...
...Free the remaining 8,000 anti-Communist North Korean prisoners. Clark has already taken some precautions by moving the 8,000 into two camps under U.S. Army and Marine guards. If a breakout is attempted anyway, Clark (with Washington's backing) has ordered the camp commanders not to shoot to kill or wound, but to fire into the air or the ground and to use non-lethal gases. If most or all of the 8,000 escape in spite of these measures, Clark considers this a lesser evil. Reason: the Communists have already shown that they care much less...