Memorial commemorating the Manseongri Massacre, Yeosu, South Korea, in November 1948. [photograph © Jessica Gienow-Hecht]

Memorial commemorating the Manseongri Massacre, Yeosu, South Korea, in November 1948. [photograph © Jessica Gienow-Hecht]

Memorial commemorating the Manseongri Massacre, Yeosu, South Korea, in November 1948. ROK police forces operating under U.S. occupation, slaughtered hundreds of civilians presumed to be communist collaborators, then tossed their bodies into a glen by a highway and covered them with soil, sand, and rocks. [photograph © Jessica Gienow-Hecht].