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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Two U.S. soldiers have been accused of raping teenage girls in South Korea in separate incidents, prompting U.S. military officials to apologize Saturday as they tried to ease growing public anger.
Army Brig. Gen. David Conboy, who supervises the U.S. garrison in Seoul, issued a statement apologizing for "pain" caused by allegations that a U.S. soldier raped a girl in her rented room in Seoul on Sept. 17. That solider — a private in his early 20s — is being questioned by police but has not been arrested.
Another U.S. private has been arrested on suspicion of raping a teenage girl on Sept. 24 in a city north of Seoul.
The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, apologized Friday for what he called a "tragic and inexcusable rape that took place about a week ago." It was not clear which of the two incidents he was referring to.
The alleged assaults have prompted small protests near the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, while the Internet has been abuzz with Koreans expressing their anger. On Saturday, a minor labor party called for restricting the movement of American soldiers outside their bases.
The U.S. has 28,500 troops stationed in South Korea, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War.
Gen. James Thurman, America's top commander in South Korea, said Friday that he has instated a curfew following "the incidents over the last several months." He did not clarify his comments, but said the curfew would last 30 days.
U.S. officials are wary of an anti-American sentiment that could be rekindled in countries where their troops are stationed.
In 2002, the acquittals of two American soldiers whose armored vehicle ran over and killed two South Korean schoolgirls during training prompted nationwide protests against the U.S. military presence in the country.
In 1995, the rape of a 12-year-old Japanese girl by U.S. service members in Okinawa sparked one of the biggest anti-U.S. protests in Japan. About 50,000 U.S. troops are stationed in Japan in a post-World War II security pact.
http://news.yahoo.com/2-us-soldiers-accused-raping-teenagers-korea-081158624.html
Whether the allegations are true or not, this certainly puts a dent in Korean-American relations, even amid the free trade talks. I'm curious if any TLers in Korea have been seeing this on the news there. And if so, if there are any anti-American or anti-armed forces sentiments.
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Terrible to see someone that is meant to protect you, hurt you.
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heard a rumor that south korea will react to this by taking a fast gold and do a +2 timing push
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Watch this explode into a huge argument
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On October 09 2011 05:23 jANii_ wrote:
heard a rumor that south korea will react to this by taking a fast gold and do a +2 timing push
Shut up.
Absolutely awful, these 2 soldiers will pay for their actions however. Stupid people like this don't help the United States military's image.
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On October 09 2011 05:23 jANii_ wrote:
heard a rumor that south korea will react to this by taking a fast gold and do a +2 timing push
Honestly, fuck off. If this were your sister being raped I'm sure you wouldn't make a "+2 timing push" joke.
Best wishes to both parties, and I hope that justice is served.
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Always sad to hear rape stories. Hopefully both of them gets proper punishment.
On October 09 2011 05:22 sinistrorsey2 wrote:
Terrible to see someone that is meant to protect you, hurt you.
Well said.
On October 09 2011 05:23 jANii_ wrote:
heard a rumor that south korea will react to this by taking a fast gold and do a +2 timing push
Funny how you were so "humane" in the suicide thread day or two ago, and now this. Sigh people make me sad sometimes.
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heard this on the news =\ just awful
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Do soldiers rape more often than the average person or is it just that Hess cases are way more publicized? Because I feel like every place soldiers are stationed for extended periods of time, you hear about someone raping a local. And I know that this doesn't apply to every soldier, or even rhe majority of them and there is probably a strong attraction of military careers to people who maybe have social problems.
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Wow, there are still 50.000 soldiers in Japan. I guess once US enters somewhere they don't ever go back.
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There have been anti-American sentiments in Korea, always, during the times that I lived in Korea. There was the widely publicized incident long ago where American soldiers killed some students in a traffic accident which generated a lot of public anger, the debacle not too long ago about the importing of American beef (or was it pork?), etc. etc. etc. But in general, there has been anti-American sentiment for as long as I can remember (20 years+), and since these kind of incidents always seem to happen periodically over the years, this kind of sentiment will remain indefinitely until the presence of American military personnel disappears completely (which will not happen as long as North Korea in its present form exists, and as long as America wishes to maintain her influence over the highly strategic Korean peninsula and the Japanese islands).
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Whenever I'm out around Seoul in places that US soldiers frequent you can always tell that people just flat out dislike them and shit like this is not going to help.
Completely unforgivable and I hope they get what's coming to them
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its shit like this that makes our military look bad...
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On October 09 2011 05:30 Bleak wrote:
Wow, there are still 50.000 soldiers in Japan. I guess once US enters somewhere they don't ever go back.
Japan isn't really the typical case. Look into what was decided after WW2 regarding the role of Japan in the world.
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On October 09 2011 05:29 Emporio wrote:
Do soldiers rape more often than the average person or is it just that Hess cases are way more publicized? Because I feel like every place soldiers are stationed for extended periods of time, you hear about someone raping a local. And I know that this doesn't apply to every soldier, or even rhe majority of them and there is probably a strong attraction of military careers to people who maybe have social problems.
I assume it's more publicized - and "worse" too, especially politically. The military represents the country after all.
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Soldier or not, people do stupid, horrible things.
Being part of the armed forces has no effect on my opinion of this situation.
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It's so stupid for people to get angry about this. 2 Americans does not represent the entire country.
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On October 09 2011 05:30 Bleak wrote:
Wow, there are still 50.000 soldiers in Japan. I guess once US enters somewhere they don't ever go back.
Well originally US trops were sent into japan after the war to rebuild and supplement them from creating their own military. ie avoid repeats of WW1, where germany was just left alone to rot and what happens? a dictator arises on the platform of war. Korea is a bit different not necessarily to supplement korean troops but to make sure the mix of CCCP, north korean troops kept to their own side of the 38th after WWII.
Anyone found a more in detail story, the words teenager and ages like 20. The word rape is quite board and i noticed it didn't say forceful rape(which is what most people think), i do not know rape laws of korea etc. Just to make sure it's proper outrage
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Woha, suprised at the ammount of soldiers the US got stuffed all over, for over 60 year old conflicts. You'd think they would start to trickle it down abit over such a long time..
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