During World War II, almost every corner of the world was shrouded in the smoke of war. In that catastrophe, countless lives were ravaged and the dark side of humanity was fully revealed. However, even so, what the Japanese army did was appalling and chilling.
In Chinese mainland and the Asia-Pacific region, the atrocities committed by the Japanese army can be described as inhumane and appalling. Their treatment of captives and civilians is heinous and simply challenges the basic bottom line of humanity.
Let's lift the veil of the cruelty of these crimes:
Cannibal Record:
Due to the scarcity of supplies caused by the war, some Japanese soldiers began to solve the problem of food and clothing by eating prisoners. Even while the captives were still alive, they cut off pieces of meat from them and ate them alive. Moreover, even if supplies were not scarce, some Japanese troops used them to intimidate prisoners or increase internal cohesion.
Women's Suffering:
The Japanese forced female captives to become pregnant, and then used their bodies to carry out all sorts of horrific experiments. They deliberately infected pregnant women with syphilis in an attempt to study whether it would be passed from mother to child. Pregnant women are vivisected, and other women are subjected to all sorts of horrific sexual experiments.
Organ harvesting in vivistate:
In the notorious Unit 731, Japanese scientists committed heinous acts against Chinese prisoners. Their removal of organs or limbs from living people without any anesthesia or pain relief is the pinnacle of human evil. Some prisoners were removed from the stomach, and the esophagus and small intestine were directly connected; Some limbs were cut off and then re-stitched to other parts of the body, which was a completely useless and cruel experiment; What's more, important organs such as the brain and liver were removed before death, which is simply impossible to look at.
Bamboo Cruelty:
Using fast-growing bamboo, the Japanese invented a slow and brutal way to kill people. They would tie the captives to the bamboo shoot beds and let the sharp bamboo shoots pierce their flesh little by little, day after day, until the captives were completely penetrated and died. This torture lasted for days and was chilling.
Centrifuges and hyperbaric chambers:
The Japanese were interested in the limits of the human body, and they put their captives in centrifuges and spun them until the internal organs could no longer bear them; Or put the captives in a high-pressure chamber and increase the pressure to see how far they can withstand. For these people, scientific experiments are far more important than human life.
Frostbite and peeling:
"To study the effects of frostbite," the Japanese soldiers would freeze the limbs of the captives and soak them in hot water to observe the level of pain. To make matters worse, they sometimes stripped the captives of their flesh off to their bare bones, and then cut off the next limb and tortured the next limb, as if the captive were just a living specimen.
Chemical and Biological Weapons:
The Japanese army used diseases such as plague as biological weapons. They deliberately transmitted syphilis, gonorrhoea and other diseases to captives while throwing germs loaded on Chinese towns, killing at least 30,000 people and engulfing the entire town with more than a dozen germs, including devastating diseases such as cholera and anthrax.
Injection of heterogeneous blood:
In order to find a way to replace human blood, the Japanese injected horse blood and seawater into the prisoners, and the result was death. Their disregard for life is outrageous.
Waterboarding and Burning at the Stake:
During the interrogation, the Japanese soldiers poured water into the throats of the captives until the water overflowed from their nostrils, and the pain of drowning was unimaginable. In addition, the Japanese army also exposed the prisoners to extremely high temperatures and burned them alive as a way to "study" the effects of heat and burns on the human body.
The prisoners were burned alive
Every crime is chilling, and it is hard to imagine that human nature can be distorted to such an extent. However, all of this was actually played out in that cruel era.
It is incumbent upon us to remember this history and to guard against arrogance and rashness so that the same crimes are not repeated.