 The 1999 No Gun Ri articles prompted hundreds of South Koreans to come forward to report other alleged incidents of large @-@ scale civilian killings by the U.S. military in 1950 – 1951 , mostly in the form of air attacks . In 2005 , the National Assembly created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of the Republic of Korea to investigate these allegations , as well as other human rights violations in southern Korea during the 20th century . The commission 's docket eventually held more than 200 cases of what it described as " civilian massacre committed by U.S. soldiers " . 
