 The No Gun Ri survivors ' committee called the U.S. Army report a " whitewash " of command responsibility . " This is not enough for the massacre of over 60 hours , of 400 innocent people who were hunted like animals , " said committee head Chung Eun @-@ yong . The survivors rejected the notion that the killings were " not deliberate , " pointing to accounts from veterans and to documents attesting to front @-@ line orders to shoot civilians . Lawmakers of both the ruling and opposition party in South Korea criticized the U.S. position . 
