Japanese War Crimes

[Joe McCarthy]

Read this and you'll never forget the unbelievable savagery of the 'Sons of Heaven'.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan...s_pacific.html

[Joe McCarthy]

Hong Kong...

HONG KONG ATROCITIES? (December 25, 1941)

The lush island of Hong Kong, thirty-two square miles in area, was formally ceded to Great Britain by the Treaty of Nanking in 1842. Around Christmas, 1941, the peace and tranquillity of this island paradise was shattered when the troops of General Ito Takeo defeated the gallant soldiers of Britain, Canada, and India, and detachments of various other nationalities. Intoxicated with the spirit of victory, the Japanese troops showed no mercy to their victims. At Eucliff, fifty-three prisoners were shot, bayoneted, some beheaded and their bodies rolled down the cliff. On Christmas morning, around 200 drunken Japanese approached St. Stephen's College, now a sanctuary for ninety-six wounded soldiers. Barring the front door was the head medic, Dr. George Black. 'You can't come in here' he called out, 'this is a hospital'. With deliberate aim, one of the soldiers raised his rifle and shot the doctor through the head. As the drunken mob surged into the hospital ward, the body of Dr Black was repeatedly bayoneted as he lay at the door. In the wards, a massacre of unprecedented ferocity took place. The Japanese ripped the bandages off the wounded patients and plunged their bayonets into the amputated arms and legs before finishing them off with a bullet. In half an hour fifty-six wounded soldiers had been massacred while the nursing staff looked on helplessly. The female nurses were then led away, to a fate one can only imagine. The patients and staff who had survived the slaughter were then forced to carry the bodies and bloodied mattresses to the grounds outside where a huge funeral pyre was prepared and lit from the college desks and cupboards which had been smashed up for firewood. Similar atrocities was enacted at the Jockey Club in Happy Valley and at the Salesian Mission at Shau Kei Wan. Atrocities were committed at various locations throughout the colony including the rape of thousands of women and young girls. On this day, any misconceptions the world had that Japan was a civilized nation, disappeared into thin air.

[Joe McCarthy]

This one was particularly shocking for its cruelty...

LOA KULU MASSACRE? (July 30, 1945)

After surrendering to overwhelming numbers of Japanese troops, around one hundred members of the Netherlands East Indies Army were disarmed and for a while permitted restricted freedom in the town of Samarinda, in Borneo, where most of the soldiers lived with their families. Early on the morning of July 30, all prisoners, including their families, were rounded up and taken before a Japanese officer who summarily sentenced them all to death. No reason was given as they were bundled into lorries and taken to Loa Kulu just outside the town. There they had their hands tied behind their backs and as the men and children watched, the women were systematically cut to pieces with swords and bayonets until they all died. The screaming children were then seized and hurled alive down a 600 foot deep mine shaft. The men captives, forced to kneel and witness the butchery of their wives and children, and suffering the most indescribable mental torture, were then lined up for execution by beheading. When the grisly ritual was over, the bloodied corpses and severed heads of the 144 men were then thrown down the mine shaft on top of their murdered wives and children. The horror of Loa Kulu was discovered by Australian troops who had earlier started a search for the missing Dutch soldiers.

[Aces High]

Dropping two atom bombs on Japanese civilians though was ok.

[Supreme American]

Dropping two atom bombs on Japanese civilians though was ok.

Absofuckinlutely. Don't forget the glorious firebombs!

[Aces High]

This one was particularly shocking for its cruelty...

So was this one....oooops.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

[Flintlocke]

War crimes? Isn't war supposed to be a crime?

[Supreme American]

So was this one....oooops.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

As true to liberals, they think exceptions are a response to the rule. They aren't.

[The Lawspeaker]

No.. the shit that we Dutch pulled in Rawagede. We are supposed to be better people then that. Not that the other side was much better but c'est une raison ne pas un excuse.

[StonyArabia]

The Japanese crimes are sicking and shows a twisted mindset.Europeans were the most humane to their subjected populations especially compared to Asiatics