The Salt Lake Tribune NATION/WORLD Bones RouseStories of Wartime Rape in Okinawa February ‘THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Okinawa’s pie When pushed, three villagers admitted hearing the story of the Marines and the cave when growing up, but none would permit his nameto be used. leaders for July’'s Group of Eight summit, a profoundly disturbing story has surfaced, that the Marines regularly brutalized local villagers and were killed in retribution — then thrown inside the caveto rot. The villagers’ accounts were echoed in the official History of Katsuyama Village, published in 1978 bya local historical society. The U.S. military says the cause of death cannot be determined. In Ohio, the widow of one man an- It was July 1945, a month before atomic bombs would fall on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and on)ne war. The men were listed deserters, then missing in oe More than five decades later, the discovery ofthe bones — inside a cave up a steep jungle slope — seemed to solve the wartime mystery. The skeletons belonged to the grily rejects the sordid allegations. “Three black American sol- “T just don’t believe this,” Mar- diers came into the village each Saturday, and it is said they raped the village women,” the history guerite Smith Headen said. “He was notthat kind of person.” Villagers still don’t like talking aboutthose times. Japan was losing the war and Okinawa was in long-missing Marines. The Americans came home, and little more was heard of the cave andits grim contents. Now, as Nago prepares to host President Clinton and other world incident.” Thevillagers say no witnesses or residents ofthe 1940s are alive to More than 200,000 people were killed, including one-third of ferenttruth. tie Great Ideas for pies ot 9 D er 8 OR oH itt tit oe ay: 73 ie Ht Spend the afternoon with us! i +e ite itr ii ; : ( with wonderfulgifts for Mom. ne py ta ot] Sunday, May 14th * 9 am-3 pm eee SF: Yutoku Toguchi, are Japanese police are not investigating. 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