Beginning of Ganghwa Massacre

Date: January 6, 1951 • Location: Moscow, Russia

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1950–1953.

Korean War: Beginning of the Ganghwa massacre, in the course of which an estimated 200–1,300 South Korean communist sympathizers are slaughtered.

The Korean War was an armed conflict fought on the Korean Peninsula between North Korea and South Korea and their allies. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea was supported by the United Nations led by the United States under the auspices of the United Nations Command (UNC).