These photographs were found among Japanese records when British troops retook Singapore
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These photographs were found among Japanese records when British troops retook Singapore
A firing squad usually has a half-dozen or more shooters per condemned, to guarantee a pretty instant death.
In this case, shooters are assigned one per victim. Moreover, in a military execution, victims don’t get bayoneted at the end. If any are still alive, the officer in charge should administer a coup de grace with a pistol
The
most severe treatment was directed at the Chinese who were killed in
large numbers by a variety of brutal means. The killings were conducted
in many ways including shooting, burying alive, bayoneting, beheading,
medical experimentation, and other methods. American, Australian, and
British PoWs were starved, brutalized, and used for forced labor.
The
construction of the Burma-Thai railroad was a particularly horrendous
project in which malnourished British and Australian PoWs were forced to
do hard labor under the most extreme conditions.
Some
were even used for medical experiments, including live vivisections and
assessments of biological weapons. Some PoWs were shot at the end of
the war in an effort to prevent accounts of their mistreatment to become
public.
The Nazis were methodical in their genocide but the Japanese
(who killed twice as many Chinese as Nazis killed Jews) did it with
pure barbarity. And while Nazi crimes were committed mostly by the SS
and generally hidden from regular troops, Japanese war crimes were
committed by regular infantrymen
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