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29-12-13, 16:16
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If you want to know the horrors of Japanese atrocity, and have a strong stomach...google - --- Unit 731 ---
hard to imagine, but worse than anything Mengele could dream up. And the Japanese govt and court systems have continually stymied attempts to bring more evidence of these atrocities to light.. requiring in fact, discovered evidence be destroyed I vaguely recall an incident a few years ago where researchers had discovered bones etc from a 731 site but were refused permission to continue and instead allow development over the site to hide/destroy it permanently The Japanese PM raised ire again for visiting the Yakusuni war dead shrine where hundreds of war criminals are buried including several A class war criminals. He said it was a visit to denounce war, but everyone knows the real political implications of visiting the shrine, and he broke an agreement with China that no sitting PM should visit. This is also the PM who denies that Japan forced women into sexual slavery http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/wo...?ref=shinzoabe He has also ordered a rewriting of school history books to reflect a more nationalistic view of Japan wartime record. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/wo...?ref=shinzoabe
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29-12-13, 23:16
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One Fourteenth of an Elephant doesn't attempt to document Japan's overtly criminal behaviour and doesn't mention such activity. Japanese attitudes and actions permeate the story, they are not particularly focused on but woven in and through the narrative. The most unsettling aspect was the total indifference to suffering that was so casually demonstrated and universal. The lack of humanity is so alien to (modern) western culture it's difficult to get your head around.
The activities of the infamous Unit 731 are an entirely separate issue and the horrors carried out by them difficult to approach without stirring up deep emotions crowned by an overwhelming repugnance. The full story of the unit will probably never be known as I understand that members were made immune from prosecution in return for handing over all their experimental data to the allies. I find it a bitter pill to swallow that when he was Prime Minister Bob Hawke made funds available for the prosecution of Nazi war criminals who did not carry out crimes against Australians and nary a word is said about our buddies to the north who did so 'Bigtime'. Sandakan, Tol Plantation, Banka Beach. We Will Remember Them David
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Hell no! I'm not that old! Last edited by motto (RIP); 31-12-13 at 01:42.
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30-12-13, 00:36
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I too find it unimaginable that the head of this horror ended up, not only safe from prosecution, but free comfortable, and running a lab in the US
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30-01-14, 13:20
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For any fans of german ww2 tanks, this auction should be on your list. It's not a book but a series of VHS tapes. DIE DEUTSCHEN PANZER. Complete series of eight tapes for $49.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Die-Deuts...item338a46e263 Great footage and info to go along with it. These are not your normal run of the mil docos on tanks made for stupid people that think everything with a gun on it is a tank. I have the series too, bought many years ago when they were $35 a tape.
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