War Crimes in Malaya and Singapore
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On 11th December 1948, a unit of the 2nd Battalion of the Scots Guards entered Batang Kali, a small hamlet in the Selangor area of Malaya. The soldiers then rounded up and massacred 25 Chinese villagers and burnt many of the dwellings. When word leaked out, the authorities attempted to justify the killings by saying that the victims had been detainees who had tried to escape:
There matters rested until, 20 years later, The People, a London newspaper, challenged a statement by George Brown, a leading Labour Party politician, discussing revelations of the My Lai massacre [by Americans in Vietnam], that ... “there are an awful lot of spectres in our cupboard too...”
... Among those who read this challenge was a Scots Guardsman who had been a member of the patrol. Eventually, he and three other members of the patrol swore statements on oath to the effect that the 25 Chinese had been massacred and that they were not trying to escape. The victims, moreover, were all civilians, and “this is just one of the many British My Lai’s in Malaya”.[27]
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in war, everything and anything goes. the victor will claim the loser committed war crimes and those similar acts done by them are justified. its just how this world is.
Do we see any US soldiers / leaders being prosecuted for napalm bombing vietnam ? Do we see any war crime actions against their mass killing of villages? No. How about in Iraq where their so called smart bombs mistakenly bomb innocent villages - isn't that considered war crimes? -
Japanese monk Iwada Ryuzo confesses crimes of war in front of the list of martyrs in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, April 25, 2006. This is the second time for the 70-year-old Japanese monk went to China in order to do confession for crimes that japanese invaders committed during World War II........at least this monk tried to atone for what his country did.......not like the japanese Prime Minister who denies the sins of his country....... -
Nazi Concentration Camp Nurses hanged by victorious allies after World War 2
Japanese nurses of Unit 731 Biological Warfare Unit should be hanged too........but justice was not done..... -
First of all, he never said anything about their sins as i recall.Originally posted by Dr Who:
...not like the japanese Prime Minister who denies the sins of his country.......
The Prime Minister made those visits not to pay respects to war dead. He can't be that stupid and anger China for nothing.
IMO he has another motive entirely for these well-publicised visits to the shrine:
It is a gesture meant for Japanese society. Not to anger foreigners etc.
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Why?
In Japan there is a quiet underground surge of Nationalism and a quest for return to the old ways and a strong Japan.
This is not something started by the young generation but by the old and dying generation - some of whom are the real powerful people in Japanese society.
(The young generation don't give a shxt - and therein lies the problem.)
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I suspect the Prime Minister's power backers are from this lot of old-fashioned ultra right-wing nationalists.
And his annual trips is required of him by these backers. He is going there not to mourn the dead but to demonstrate to Janese society that he, a young leader - values the old ways and is there to pay respects to a past generation who embodied the true smaurai "Bushido" spirit.
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These nationalists mourn the death of the Bushido spirit that made Japan mighty.
They want Japan to stand proud and not be a lackey of US any more as this is rotting Japanese society core values.
They want to see Japan re-arm. They don't necessarily want to be militarily adventurous. But they want Japan to be a proper country again without the restrictions set upon them after WW2.
These nationalists hate the weakness of Japanese young generation. Instead of being honourable and ready to sacrifice for Japanese society, today's Jap youth are weak and direction-less.
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Though this is just my theory, I have read articles here and there that pointed to a re-emergence of nationalism in Japan. And also the fact is before our eyes that Japan IS re-arming. Though it is my theory that besides military reasons, they are doing it for national pride and to give nationhood a kick start again.
Somehow, it is inescapable that a strong sense of nationhood needs a strong military. Countries that do not have a strong military have only a country, not a nation. And they might lose even that...
I don't like the idea of a re-emergence of nationalism in Japan but they are doing what is best for their society.
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Foreign soldiers in your country is bad news, as these revelations about British atrocities reveals. We all thought they were great chums but see what they are capable of. Racially, they still think of us as somehow inferior.
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Note that the code the Japanese military was under was not classic samurai Bushido, but a corrupted version of it that is better called "Bullshi-tdo".
And his annual trips is required of him by these backers. He is going there not to mourn the dead but to demonstrate to Janese society that he, a young leader - values the old ways and is there to pay respects to a past generation who embodied the true smaurai "Bushido" spirit.
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These nationalists mourn the death of the Bushido spirit that made Japan mighty.
They want Japan to stand proud and not be a lackey of US any more as this is rotting Japanese society core values.
Japan needs to relearn how to be a nation again, but certainly not go back to the past... though I think that's unlikely. However the way to do it is not to look back upon the dark days and deeds of the past as if they were glory days and need to be relived, but instead focus on creating a Japan that was "what it should have been" and avoided all those mistakes. -
Be wary that one day, if we have to fight a war, our boys may have their own My Lai as well.
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Look like photoshopped
Does that look like fair skinned mediterranean Cypriots? Look more like Indians (along with their dressess) to me -
more likely Aden or Yemen..........
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I didn't know they wear sarongs in cyprus ......
and I always had the impression that the people in cyprus are of ang moh stock ....
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It is 'Photoshopped'. The roof of the huts are make out of leafs, meaning the huts are in some tropical country .... and the guys is wearing a winter coat to stay 'warm'Originally posted by *=Optimus=*:
Look like photoshopped
Does that look like fair skinned mediterranean Cypriots? Look more like Indians (along with their dressess) to me
And not forget the white Outline around the man...... 
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Personnel from Unit 731 lives were probably saved by the experiment they conducted on Chinese, Russian and different nationality of POWs. Unit 731 had many branches spread all over the Japanese empire with one in Singapore (tropical diseases and Malaria Branch), one in Manchukuo (present day Dong Bei). However, the HQ of Unit 731 was in Ping Fan in Harbin where a complex of more than a 100 buildings were build.Originally posted by Dr Who:
Nazi Concentration Camp Nurses hanged by victorious allies after World War 2
Japanese nurses of Unit 731 Biological Warfare Unit should be hanged too........but justice was not done.....
After the war, the American wanted to prevent the biological research data from falling into the hands of the Soivet granted immunity in exchange for the blood knowledge. General Ishii, the head of Unit 731, forced his staff to swore secrecy to what happend in Ping Fan during the War. Ishii was never prosecuted and he died of throat cancer in his home living into his 60s. Since then, other members of Unit 731 have come up to acknowledge their actions during their service in the Unit, some repentant and some proud of what they have done. Other personnel of the unit became well known medical professional in a Japan after the war. Not one member of Unit 731 was ever put on trial and convicted for their crimes and only one statement was ever mentioned bout biological research in the Far East Military Tribunal Trial held in Tokyo.
Compared to Nazi doctors such as Karl Brandt (who was executed), Josef Mengele (Auschwitz doctor known as the Angel of Death but escaped trial), the extent and crime of the Japanese biological research is hardly known by people. -
cruelty..
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Again it's the Americans
they are the most humane, yet they are the ones who let off the guilty.
they are the ones who give the most international aid, yet they are the ones that caused the most wars.......