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Cave of the Negroes incident
The Cave of the Negroes incident (in Japan: Kurombo Gama incident) was a killing of three African American Marines by Okinawans from the Katsuyama village near Nago, Okinawa after the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, shortly before the end of the war in the Pacific. Many years later some of the villagers confessed that every weekend three black United States Marines had allegedly been visiting the village around that time and every time they violently took the village women into the hills with them and raped them. When the Marines started to confidently carry out their weekly ritual unarmed, the villagers reportedly overwhelmed the men one time and killed all three. Their bodies were hidden in the nearby cave out of fear for retaliation against the village, a village secret until 1997. Since the killings, the cave has been known as ''Kurombo Gama,'' which literally translates to ''Cave of the Negroes'' in English.〔(Okinawa legend leaves unsettling questions about Marines' deaths ), ''Locals call it ''Kurombo Gama.'' Gama means cave. Kurombo is a Japanese word for blacks so derogatory it is banned from publication or public discourse.''〕
==The attack==
Villagers revealed long after the attack that the Marines were so confident that the villagers were powerless that they came to the village without weapons. Taking advantage of this, the villagers ambushed the African Americans with the help of two armed Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the nearby jungle.〔 Shinsei Higa, who was sixteen at the time, remembers that "I didn't see the actual killing because I was hiding in the mountains above, but I heard five or six gunshots and then a lot of footsteps and commotion. By late afternoon, we came down from the mountains and then everyone knew what had happened."〔
To cover up the African American deaths, the bodies were dumped in a local cave that had a 50-foot (15 m) drop off close to its entrance. Ever since the bodies were dumped in the cave, it has been known as ''Kurombo Gama'', which translated means ''Cave of the Negroes''.〔〔
When the men did not return to their Marine Corps posts, they were listed as possible deserters in the summer of 1945. After a year with still no evidence of what happened to them, they were declared missing in action.〔
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