Attending it were members of at least 150 civic and public organizations.

Speakers at the rally bitterly condemned the GIs for committing such hair-raising atrocity as driving an armored car over the two schoolgirls on the roadside, killing them nine years ago.

It has been recently disclosed that the U.S. forces buried defoliant and other toxic materials in south Korea without hesitation, greatly shocking the people, they noted.

After the murder of the two schoolgirls occurred, the U.S. forces arrogantly handled it under the pretext of the south Korea-U.S. SOFA and this time, too, they are undisguisedly blocking the probe into the truth about the environment pollution, the speakers charged.

They declared that the organizations would launch an all-people action to probe the truth about the U.S. forces' environment pollution with the start of the rally that day.