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家园 美国《国际先驱论坛报》今年3月20日关于坡州敌军公墓的报道

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/20/asia/cemetery.php

Dead Communist soldiers in South Korea still await repatriation

PAJU, South Korea: The hillside cemetery here is unlike any other in South Korea. The graves have no headstones. Instead they have identical, meter-long, white wooden stakes, most of them reading "Anonymous" and revealing little else about those lying beneath.

And, in contrast to the Korean tradition of aligning graves toward the south, those here, arranged in neat rows, all face north. In other words, they all look homeward.

Decades after they fell in combat during the 1950-53 Korean War or their postwar espionage missions ended in gunfights with South Korean troops, the Communist warriors buried here still await a trip home. Their remains are unclaimed by their government, which denies sending armed infiltrators into the South.

"We don't come to this place," said Choi Jae Hyun, a 73-year-old farmer living near the cemetery. "We still resent North Korea. We find this place uncomfortable to visit."

What is familiarly known here as the "enemy cemetery," located just below the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea, opened in 1996 as a burial ground for the remains of 96 North Koreans and Chinese whose bodies were once buried in plots scattered throughout the South. Since South Korea began systematically excavating the war's major battle sites in 2000, the number of bodies has grown to 391.

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