Japan/China atrocities

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), March 10, 2001

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Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), March 10, 2001.

How about exposing the Japanese war crimes against American (and other) POW's?

The United States Government ALLOWED evidence of the atrocities committed by the japanese to be destroyed in return for our occupation of Japan after the war. I know these medical experiments happened, my Father was subjected to some of the experiments, some which almost killed him.

Few members of the unit have faced consequences for their actions. Some officers became pillars in the Japanese medical establishment after the war. Lower-ranking unit members lived out quiet lives, chastened by the vows they took upon entering the unit never to discuss its activities, on pain of death.

Their silence was aided by the complicity of the United States, according to scholars. In 1948, the United States secretly agreed to spare unit members from prosecution during the Tokyo Tribunal in exchange for access to the discoveries made through their grim experiments.

The Soviet Union put 12 captured Unit 731 members on trial in December 1949, but the gruesome accounts that came out of the trial were dismissed by the United States as Cold War propaganda.

The unit's actions remained secret until 1981, when an American journalist revealed the agreement between Japan and the United States not to prosecute Unit 731 members. In 1982, Japanese author Seiichi Morimura published a bestseller, "The Devil's Gluttony," which described the medical experimentation carried on by the unit.

Slowly, more information came to light.

If the truth came out about what the japanese did during the war, people wouldn't be so quick to whine about the two bombs we were forced to drop to end the carnage they perpetrated not only on their enemies, but their own population. This is an example of a mass propaganda campaign that has managed to change "history" in the eyes of the world.

-- Cherri (jessam5@home.com), March 11, 2001.