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2020-09-03 08:20
In order to commemorate the 75th anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, the eight-episode documentary series "Asia-Pacific War Trial", a major project of the Central Propaganda Department, produced by the Documentary Center of Shanghai Radio and Television Station, landed on Oriental Satellite TV on August 31.
"Asia-Pacific War Trials" is the world's first large-scale documentary focusing on the trial of Japanese BC (B C) war criminals by allied countries after World War II, showing the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in the Pacific Theater and the history of the post-war international community punishing war crimes in a legal spirit, filling the film and television gap in this field.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Army began to invade the Philippines and engage the United States and the joint defenders of the Philippines. The U.S.-Philippine defenders on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines fought fiercely with the Japanese for four months, and finally surrendered to the Japanese on April 9, 1942 due to lack of support and proximity, with about 78,000 surrenders. These men experienced a hellish death march, as Japanese Army Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma was tried in Manila as a result of the Bataan Death March, the earliest public trial of war criminals against Japan in Asia.
Among the video materials kept by the National Archives, we can also find the complete video material of the trial of Masaharu Honma. In the Manila courtroom, James Valdesa, a survivor of bataan's death march, appeared in court to confirm the inhuman mistreatment of prisoners of war by Japanese soldiers.
"The Japanese didn't allow us to cook, but some Filipinos still wanted to cook rice, and two Filipinos wanted to try their luck, and they were caught and buried alive."
In addition to witnessing Filipino prisoners of war buried alive for cooking rice, James told the court about the murder of his friend Colonel McKennaugh by a disabled Japanese soldier because he could no longer walk.
(Video source: Documentary "Asia-Pacific War Trial")