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| China releases US human rights record in 2002 （21） |
| CCTV.COM 2003-04-03 16:04:45 |
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Hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops are stationed overseas, and such troops have committed crimes and human rights abuses wherever they stay. Each year U.S. troops stationed in the Republic of Korea （ROK） are caught responsible for more than 400 traffic accidents, but only less than 10 cases would go for trial in ROK courts.
On June 13, 2002, two U.S. soldiers driving an armored vehicle crushed two 14－year－old South Korean girls to death, but both offenders were acquitted by a U.S. military tribunal in November. On Sept. 2, three other U.S. soldiers in Kyonggi－do, ROK, started a tussle on a road, and they deliberately smashed a taxi car parked on the roadside and beat up its Korean driver.
Earlier reports said six American soldiers stationed in the ROK were charged with sexual harassment, assault and scuffle after drinking.
The U.S. troops in Okinawa, Japan has long been notorious for its constant involvement in criminal cases such as arson and rape.Investigation shows that after World War II U.S. soldiers have committed more than 300 sex crimes in Okinawa, with over 130 rape cases reported since 1972.
In the wee hours of Jan. 7, 2002, Frederick Thompson, a U.S. Navy marine stationed in Okinawa, was arrested by local police on charges of trespassing on private property after he broke into the apartment of a 24－year－old woman. On Dec. 3 the same year, the against Major Michael Brown of the U.S. Marine Corps, who was accused of attempted rape and damaging of private articles, but the U.S. side refused to hand him over to the police department. （Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 15, 2002）
According to a news report in the Spanish newspaper El Mundo of April 1, 2002, there are more than 52,000 illegitimate children in the Philippines fathered by U.S. marines stationed in this Southeast Asian country before 1991. Recently tens of Filipino teenage girls, some of them not yet 13, were sent to Mindanao in southern Philippines, to entertain U.S. marines stationed there. （more）
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Editor: Wang Yin Source:Xinhua
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