Japanese atrocities - 21+
I present to your attention the photos that were taken by Japanese soldiers during the Second World War. Only thanks to quick and tough measures, the Red Army managed to tear out the Japanese army very painfully on Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River, where the Japanese decided to test our strength
Only thanks to a serious defeat, they put their ears back and postponed the invasion of the USSR until the moment the Germans took Moscow. Only the failure of the Typhoon operation did not allow our dear Japanese friends to arrange a second front for the USSR.
Trophies of the Red Army
Everyone has somehow forgotten about the atrocities of the Germans and their lackeys on our territory. Unfortunately.
I want an example Japanese photos to show what kind of joy it was - the imperial Japanese army. It was a powerful and well-equipped force. And its composition was well prepared, drilled, fanatically devoted to the idea of domination of their country over all other monkeys. They were yellow-skinned Aryans, which was reluctantly recognized by other long-nosed and round-eyed superior people from the Third Reich. Together they were destined to divide the world for the benefit of the smallest.
In the photo - a Japanese officer and soldier. I pay special attention - all the officers in the army had swords in without fail. The old samurai clans have katanas, the new ones, without traditions, have an army sword of the 1935 model. Without a sword - not an officer.
In general, the cult of edged weapons among the Japanese was at its best. As the officers were proud of their swords, so the soldiers were proud of their long bayonets and used them where possible.
In the photo - practicing bayonet fighting on prisoners:
It was a good tradition, so it was applied everywhere.
(well, by the way, it also happened in Europe - the brave Poles practiced saber felling and bayonet techniques on captured Red Army soldiers in exactly the same way)
However, shooting was also practiced on prisoners. Training on captured Sikhs from the British Armed Forces:
Of course, the officers also flaunted the ability to use a sword. especially honing the ability to demolish human heads with one blow. Supreme chic.
In the photo - training in Chinese:
Of course, the Unter-Leshes had to know their place. In the photo - the Chinese greet their new masters as expected:
If they show disrespect - in Japan, a samurai could blow his head off any commoner who, as it seemed to the samurai, greeted him disrespectfully. In China it was even worse.
However, low-ranking soldiers also did not lag behind the samurai. In the photo - the soldiers admire the torment of a Chinese peasant flogged with their bayonets:
Of course, they chopped off their heads both for the sake of training and just for fun:
And for selfies:
Because it is beautiful and courageous:
The Japanese army especially developed after the storming of the Chinese capital - the city of Nanjing. Here the soul unfolded accordion. Well, in the Japanese sense, it's probably better to say like a cherry blossom fan. Three months after the assault, the Japanese slaughtered, shot, burned, and in various ways more than 300,000 people. Well, not a person, in their opinion, but the Chinese.
Indiscriminately - women, children or men.
Well, it’s true, it was customary to cut the men first, just in case, so as not to interfere.
And women - after. With violence and entertainment.
Well, children, of course.
The officers even started a competition - who will cut off more heads in a day. Purely like Gimli and Legolas - who will fill more orcs. Tokyo Nichi Nichi Shimbun, later renamed Mainichi Shimbun. On December 13, 1937, a photograph of Lieutenants Mukai and Noda appeared on the front page of the newspaper under the headline "Competition to be the first to cut off the heads of 100 Chinese with sabers is over: Mukai has already scored 106 points, and Noda - 105." One point in the "bounty race" meant one victim. But we can say that these Chinese are lucky.
As mentioned in the diary of an eyewitness of those events, the leader of the local Nazi party, John Rabe, "the Japanese military chased the Chinese throughout the city and stabbed them with bayonets or sabers." However, according to a veteran of the Japanese imperial army, who participated in the events in Nanjing, Hajime Kondo, for the most part, the Japanese "thought it was too noble for a Chinese to die from a saber, and therefore they often stoned them to death."
Japanese soldiers began to practice their popular "three clean" policy: "burn clean", "kill everyone clean", "rob clean".
More selfies. The warriors tried to document their bravery. Well, because of the prohibitions, I can’t post photos of more sophisticated fun, such as stuffing a cola into a raped Chinese woman. Because it's softer. The Japanese shows what kind of girl he has.
More selfies
One of the brave athletes with prey ^
And these are just the results of some outsider ^
Then the Chinese could not bury all the corpses for a long time.
The case was long. There are a lot of dead, but there is no one to bury. Everyone has heard about Tamerlane with the pyramids of skulls. Well, the Japanese are not far behind.
White got it too. The Japanese did not chime with the prisoners.
They were lucky - they survived:
But this Australian does not:
So if the brave Japanese crossed our border, one could imagine that they would be worthy comrades-in-arms of the Germans. In the photo - the result of the work of the German Einsatzkommando.
Because - just look at the photo
Bamboo is one of the most fast growing plants on the ground. Some of its Chinese varieties can grow as much as a meter in a day. Some historians believe that the deadly bamboo torture was used not only by the ancient Chinese, but also by the Japanese military during World War II.
How it works?
1) Live bamboo sprouts are sharpened with a knife to make sharp “spears”;
2) The victim is suspended horizontally, back or belly over a bed of young pointed bamboo;
3) Bamboo grows rapidly in height, pierce into the skin of the martyr and sprout through him abdominal cavity, a person dies very long and painfully.
2. Iron Maiden
Like bamboo torture, many researchers consider the "iron maiden" terrible legend. Perhaps these metal sarcophagi with sharp spikes inside only frightened the defendants, after which they confessed to anything. The "iron maiden" was invented at the end of the 18th century, i.e. already at the end of the Catholic Inquisition.
How it works?
1) The victim is stuffed into the sarcophagus and the door is closed;
2) Spikes driven into the inner walls " iron maiden» are rather short and do not pierce the victim through, but only cause pain. The investigator, as a rule, in a matter of minutes receives a confession, which the arrested person only has to sign;
3) If the prisoner shows fortitude and continues to be silent, long nails, knives and rapiers are pushed through special holes in the sarcophagus. The pain becomes simply unbearable;
4) The victim never confesses to his deed, then she was locked in a sarcophagus for long time where she died from blood loss;
5) In some models of the “iron maiden”, spikes were provided at eye level in order to quickly poke them out.
3. Skafism
The name of this torture comes from the Greek "skafium", which means "trough". Skafism was popular in ancient Persia. During the torture, the victim, most often a prisoner of war, was devoured alive by various insects and their larvae that were not indifferent to human flesh and blood.
How it works?
1) The prisoner is placed in a shallow trough and wrapped in chains.
2) He is force fed large quantities milk and honey, from which the victim begins to have copious diarrhea that attracts insects.
3) A prisoner, shabby, smeared with honey, is allowed to swim in a trough in a swamp, where there are many hungry creatures.
4) Insects immediately start the meal, as the main dish - the living flesh of the martyr.
4. Terrible pear 
“There is a pear - you can’t eat it,” it is said about the medieval European tool for “educating” blasphemers, liars, women who gave birth out of wedlock, and men gay. Depending on the crime, the tormentor put the pear into the sinner's mouth, anus or vagina.
How it works?
1) An instrument consisting of pointed, pear-shaped leaf-shaped segments is inserted into the client's desired hole in the body;
2) The executioner slowly turns the screw on the top of the pear, while the “leaves”-segments bloom inside the martyr, causing hellish pain;
3) After the pear is opened, the completely guilty person receives internal injuries incompatible with life and dies in terrible agony, if he has not already fallen into unconsciousness.
5. Copper bull 
The design of this death unit was developed by the ancient Greeks, or to be more precise, the coppersmith Perill, who sold his terrible bull to the Sicilian tyrant Falaris, who simply adored torturing and killing people in unusual ways.
Inside the copper statue, through a special door, they pushed a living person.
So
Falaris first tested the unit on its creator, the greedy Perilla. Subsequently, Falaris himself was roasted in a bull.
How it works?
1) The victim is closed in a hollow copper statue of a bull;
2) A fire is kindled under the belly of the bull;
3) The victim is roasted alive, like a ham in a frying pan;
4) The structure of the bull is such that the cries of the martyr come from the mouth of the statue, like a bull's roar;
5) Jewelry and amulets were made from the bones of the executed, which were sold in the bazaars and were in great demand ..
6. Torture by rats 
Rat torture was very popular in ancient China. However, we will look at the rat punishment technique developed by the leader of the 16th century Dutch Revolution, Didrik Sonoy.
How it works?
1) The naked martyr is laid on a table and tied;
2) Large, heavy cages with hungry rats are placed on the prisoner's stomach and chest. The bottom of the cells is opened with a special valve;
3) Hot coals are placed on top of the cages to stir up the rats;
4) Trying to escape from the heat of hot coals, rats gnaw their way through the flesh of the victim.
7. Cradle of Judas 
The Cradle of Judas was one of the most painful torture machines in the arsenal of the Suprema - the Spanish Inquisition. The victims usually died from the infection, due to the fact that the peaked seat of the torture machine was never disinfected. The cradle of Judas, as an instrument of torture, was considered "loyal", because it did not break bones and did not tear ligaments.
How it works?
1) The victim, whose hands and feet are tied, is seated on the top of a pointed pyramid;
2) The top of the pyramid pierces the anus or vagina;
3) With the help of ropes, the victim is gradually lowered lower and lower;
4) Torture continues for several hours or even days, until the victim dies from powerlessness and pain, or from blood loss due to rupture of soft tissues.
8. Elephant trampling 
For several centuries, this execution was practiced in India and Indochina. The elephant is very easy to train and to teach him to trample the guilty victim with his huge feet is a matter of several days.
How it works?
1. The victim is tied to the floor;
2. A trained elephant is brought into the hall to crush the head of the martyr;
3. Sometimes before the "control in the head" animals squeeze the victims' arms and legs in order to amuse the audience.
9. Rack 
Probably the most famous, and unsurpassed in its kind, death machine called "rack". It was first experienced around 300 AD. on the Christian martyr Vincent from Zaragoza.
Anyone who survived the rack could no longer use their muscles and turned into a helpless vegetable.
How it works?
1. This instrument of torture is a special bed with rollers at both ends, on which ropes were wound, holding the wrists and ankles of the victim. When the rollers rotated, the ropes stretched in opposite directions, stretching the body;
2. Ligaments in the hands and feet of the victim are stretched and torn, bones pop out of the joints.
3. Another version of the rack was also used, called strappado: it consisted of 2 pillars dug into the ground and connected by a crossbar. The interrogated person was tied with his hands behind his back and lifted by the rope tied to his hands. Sometimes a log or other weights were attached to his bound legs. At the same time, the hands of a person raised on a rack twisted back and often came out of their joints, so that the convict had to hang on twisted arms. They were on the rack from several minutes to an hour or more. This type of rack was used most often in Western Europe.
4. In Russia, a suspect raised on a rack was beaten with a whip on the back, and “applied to the fire”, that is, they drove burning brooms over the body.
5. In individual cases the executioner broke the ribs of a man hanging on a rack with red-hot tongs.
10. Paraffin in the bladder
A savage form of torture, the actual use of which has not been established.
How it works?
1. Candle paraffin was rolled out by hand into a thin sausage, which was injected through the urethra;
2. Paraffin slipped into bladder, where the precipitation of solid salts and other nasty things began on it.
3. Soon the victim began to have kidney problems and she died from an acute kidney failure. On average, death occurred in 3-4 days.
11. Shiri (camel cap)
A monstrous fate awaited those whom the Zhuanzhuans (the union of nomadic Turkic-speaking peoples) took into their slavery. They destroyed the memory of a slave terrible torture- putting Shiri on the victim's head. Usually this fate befell young guys captured in battles.
How it works?
1. First, the slaves shaved their heads, carefully scraping out every hair under the root.
2. The executioners slaughtered the camel and skinned its carcass, first of all, separating its heaviest, densest part.
3. Having divided the neck into pieces, it was immediately pulled in pairs over the shaved heads of the prisoners. These pieces, like a plaster, stuck around the heads of slaves. This meant putting on wide.
4. After putting on the width, the neck of the doomed was shackled in a special wooden block so that the subject could not touch his head to the ground. In this form, they were taken away from crowded places so that no one would hear their heartbreaking cries, and they were thrown there in an open field, with their hands and feet tied, in the sun, without water and without food.
5. The torture lasted 5 days.
6. Only a few remained alive, and the rest died not from hunger or even from thirst, but from unbearable, inhuman torments caused by drying out, shrinking rawhide camel skin on the head. Inexorably shrinking under the rays of the scorching sun, the width squeezed, squeezing the shaved head of a slave like an iron hoop. Already on the second day, the shaved hair of the martyrs began to sprout. Coarse and straight Asian hair sometimes grew into the rawhide, in most cases, finding no way out, the hair bent and again went into the scalp with its ends, causing even greater suffering. A day later, the man lost his mind. Only on the fifth day did the Zhuanzhuans come to check whether any of the prisoners had survived. If at least one of the tortured was caught alive, it was believed that the goal was achieved. .
7. The one who was subjected to such a procedure either died, unable to withstand the torture, or lost his memory for life, turned into a mankurt - a slave who does not remember his past.
8. The skin of one camel was enough for five or six widths.
12. Implantation of metals
A very strange means of torture-execution was used in the Middle Ages.
How it works?
1. A deep incision was made on a person’s legs, where a piece of metal (iron, lead, etc.) was placed, after which the wound was sutured.
2. Over time, the metal oxidized, poisoning the body and causing terrible pain.
3. Most often, the poor fellows tore the skin in the place where the metal was sewn up and died from blood loss.
13. Dividing a person into two parts
This terrible execution originated in Thailand. The most hardened criminals were subjected to it - mostly murderers.
How it works?
1. The accused is placed in a hoodie woven from lianas, and he is stabbed with sharp objects;
2. After that, his body is quickly cut into two parts, the upper half is immediately placed on a red-hot copper grate; this operation stops the blood and prolongs the life of the upper part of the person.
A small addition: This torture is described in the book of the Marquis de Sade "Justine, or the successes of vice." This is a small excerpt from a large piece of text where de Sade allegedly describes the torture of the peoples of the world. But why supposedly? According to many critics, the Marquis was very fond of lying. He had an extraordinary imagination and a couple of manias, so this torture, like some others, could be a figment of his imagination. But the field of this is not worth referring to Donatien Alphonse as Baron Munchausen. This torture, in my opinion, if it did not exist before, is quite realistic. If, of course, a person is drugged with painkillers before this (opiates, alcohol, etc.), so that he does not die before his body touches the bars.
14. Inflation with air through the anus
A terrible torture in which a person is pumped with air through the anus.
There is evidence that in Russia even Peter the Great himself sinned with this.
Most often, thieves were executed in this way.
How it works?
1. The victim was tied hand and foot.
2. Then they took cotton and stuffed the ears, nose and mouth of the poor fellow with it.
3. In anus it was inserted by bellows, with the help of which they pumped into a person great amount air, resulting in it becoming like a balloon.
3. After that, I plugged his anus with a piece of cotton.
4. Then they opened two veins above his eyebrows, from which all the blood flowed under great pressure.
5. Sometimes connected person they put him naked on the roof of the palace and shot him with arrows until he died.
6. Prior to 1970, this method was often used in Jordanian prisons.
15. Polledro
The Neapolitan executioners lovingly called this torture "polledro" - "colt" (polledro) and were proud that it was first used in their native city. Although history did not preserve the name of its inventor, they said that he was an expert in horse breeding and came up with an unusual device to pacify his horses.
Only a few decades later, lovers of mocking people turned the horse breeder's device into a real torture machine for people.
The machine was a wooden frame, similar to a ladder, the crossbeams of which were very sharp corners so that when a person is put on their back, they crash into the body from the back of the head to the heels. The staircase ended in a huge wooden spoon, in which, as if in a cap, they put their heads.
How it works?
1. Holes were drilled on both sides of the frame and in the “bonnet”, ropes were threaded into each of them. The first of them was tightened on the forehead of the tortured, the last tied thumbs legs. As a rule, there were thirteen ropes, but for especially stubborn ones, the number was increased.
2. Special fixtures the ropes were pulled tighter and tighter - it seemed to the victims that, having crushed the muscles, they dug into the bones.
16. Dead man's bed (modern China) 
The "dead man's bed" torture is used by the Chinese Communist Party mainly on those prisoners who try to protest their illegal imprisonment through a hunger strike. In most cases, these are prisoners of conscience who went to prison for their beliefs.
How it works?
1. The hands and feet of a naked prisoner are tied to the corners of the bed, on which, instead of a mattress, there is a wooden board with a hole cut out. A bucket for excrement is placed under the hole. Often, ropes are tightly tied to the bed and the body of a person so that he cannot move at all. In this position, a person is continuously from several days to weeks.
2. In some prisons, such as Shenyang City No. 2 Prison and Jilin City Prison, the police still place a hard object under the victim's back to increase the suffering.
3. It also happens that the bed is placed vertically and for 3-4 days a person hangs, stretched by the limbs.
4. Force-feeding is added to these torments, which is carried out with the help of a tube inserted through the nose into the esophagus, into which liquid food is poured.
5. This procedure is done mainly by prisoners on the orders of the guards, and not by health workers. They do it very rudely and unprofessionally, often causing more serious damage. internal organs person.
6. Those who have gone through this torture say that it causes displacement of the vertebrae, joints of the arms and legs, as well as numbness and blackening of the limbs, which often leads to disability.
17. Collar (Modern China) 
One of the medieval tortures used in modern Chinese prisons is the wearing of a wooden collar. It is put on a prisoner, which is why he cannot walk or stand normally.
The collar is a board from 50 to 80 cm long, from 30 to 50 cm wide and 10 - 15 cm thick. There are two holes for the legs in the middle of the collar.
The victim, on which the yoke is attached, is difficult to move, must crawl into the bed and usually must sit or lie down, as vertical position causes pain and injury to the legs. Without assistance, a person with a collar cannot go to eat or go to the toilet. When a person gets out of bed, the collar not only presses on the legs and heels, causing pain, but its edge clings to the bed and prevents the person from returning to it. At night, the prisoner is not able to turn around, and in winter time a short blanket does not cover the legs.
An even worse form of this torture is called "crawling with a wooden collar." The guards put a collar on the man and order him to crawl on the concrete floor. If he stops, he is hit on the back with a police baton. An hour later, fingers, toenails and knees bleed profusely, while the back is covered with wounds from blows.
18. Impaling 
Terrible wild execution that came from the East.
The essence of this execution was that a person was placed on his stomach, one sat on him to prevent him from moving, the other held him by the neck. A person was inserted into the anus with a stake, which was then driven in with a mallet; then they drove a stake into the ground. The weight of the body forced the stake to go deeper and deeper, and finally it came out under the armpit or between the ribs.
19. Spanish water torture 
In order to the best way to perform the procedure of this torture, the accused was placed on one of the varieties of the rack or on a special large table with a rising middle part. After the victim's hands and feet were tied to the edges of the table, the executioner went to work in one of several ways. One of these methods was that the victim was forced with the help of a funnel to swallow a large number of water, then beat on the inflated and arched stomach. Another form involved placing a rag tube down the victim's throat, through which water was slowly poured in, causing the victim to bloat and suffocate. If that wasn't enough, the tube was pulled out, causing internal damage, and then reinserted and the process repeated. Sometimes they used torture cold water. In this case, the defendant lay naked on the table for hours under a stream of water. ice water. It is interesting to note that this kind of torment was regarded as light, and confessions obtained in this way were accepted by the court as voluntary and given to the defendants without the use of torture. Most often, these tortures were used by the Spanish Inquisition in order to knock out confessions from heretics and witches.
20. Chinese water torture
The person was seated in a very cold room, they tied him so that he could not move his head, and in complete darkness cold water was very slowly dripping on his forehead. After a few days, the person froze or went crazy.
21. Spanish chair 
This instrument of torture was widely used by the executioners of the Spanish Inquisition and was a chair made of iron, on which the prisoner was seated, and his legs were enclosed in stocks attached to the legs of the chair. When he was in such a completely helpless position, a brazier was placed under his feet; with hot coals, so that the legs began to slowly roast, and in order to prolong the suffering of the poor fellow, the legs were poured with oil from time to time.
Another version of the Spanish chair was also often used, which was a metal throne, to which the victim was tied and a fire was made under the seat, roasting the buttocks. The well-known poisoner La Voisin was tortured on such an armchair during the famous Poisoning Case in France.
22. GRIDIRON (Grate for torture by fire) 
Torture of Saint Lawrence on the gridiron.
This type of torture is often mentioned in the lives of saints - real and fictional, but there is no evidence that the gridiron "survived" until the Middle Ages and had at least little circulation in Europe. It is usually described as a simple metal grate, 6 feet long and two and a half wide, set horizontally on legs so that a fire can be built under it.
Sometimes the gridiron was made in the form of a rack in order to be able to resort to combined torture.
Saint Lawrence was martyred on a similar grid.
This torture was rarely resorted to. Firstly, it was easy enough to kill the interrogated person, and secondly, there were a lot of simpler, but no less cruel tortures.
23. Pectoral 
Pectoral in ancient times was called a breast adornment for women in the form of a pair of carved gold or silver bowls, often strewn with precious stones. It was worn like a modern bra and fastened with chains.
By a mocking analogy with this decoration, the savage instrument of torture used by the Venetian Inquisition was named.
In 1985, the pectoral was red-hot and, taking it with tongs, put it on the chest of the tortured woman and held until she confessed. If the accused persisted, the executioners heated up the pectoral, cooled by the living body again, and continued the interrogation.
Very often, after this barbaric torture, charred, torn holes remained in place of the woman's breasts.
24. Tickle Torture 
This seemingly harmless influence was a terrible torture. With prolonged tickling, a person’s nerve conduction increased so much that even the lightest touch caused at first twitching, laughter, and then turned into terrible pain. If such torture was continued for a long time, then after a while spasms of the respiratory muscles arose and, in the end, the tortured person died from suffocation.
At the most simple version the interrogated were tortured by tickling sensitive places either simply with their hands or with hairbrushes and brushes. Tough were popular bird feathers. Usually tickled under the armpits, heels, nipples, inguinal folds, genitals, women also under the breasts.
In addition, torture was often used with the use of animals that licked some tasty substance from the heels of the interrogated. A goat was often used, because its very hard tongue, adapted for eating herbs, caused very strong irritation.
There was also a form of beetle tickling, most common in India. With her, a small bug was planted on the head of the penis of a man or on the nipple of a woman and covered with half a nut shell. After some time, the tickling caused by the movement of the legs of an insect over a living body became so unbearable that the interrogated person confessed to anything.
25. Crocodile 
These tubular metal tongs "Crocodile" were red-hot and used to tear the penis of the tortured. At first, with a few caressing movements (often performed by women), or with a tight bandage, they achieved a stable hard erection and then the torture began.
26. Serrated crusher 
These serrated iron tongs slowly crushed the testicles of the interrogated.
Something similar was widely used in Stalinist and fascist prisons.
27. A terrible tradition. 
Actually, this is not torture, but an African rite, but, in my opinion, it is very cruel. Girls from 3-6 years old without anesthesia were simply scraped out the external genitalia.
Thus, the girl did not lose the ability to have children, but was forever deprived of the opportunity to experience sexual desire and pleasure. This rite is done “for the good” of women so that they will never be tempted to cheat on their husband
28. Blood Eagle 
One of the most ancient tortures, during which the victim was tied face down and his back was opened, the ribs were broken off at the spine and spread apart like wings. IN Scandinavian legends it is alleged that during such an execution, salt was sprinkled on the wounds of the victim.
Many historians claim that this torture was used by pagans against Christians, others are sure that spouses convicted of treason were punished in this way, and still others claim that the bloody eagle is just a terrible legend. 
HMembers of the House are already aware that in Lately many postcards and letters from prisoners in the Far East arrived in Britain. The authors of almost all of these letters report that they are being treated well and that they are in good health. Judging by what we know about the situation of prisoners in certain areas Far East, it can be stated with certainty that at least, some of these letters were written under the dictation of the Japanese authorities.
I must regrettably inform the House that the information received by His Majesty's Government shows absolutely indisputably, in the case of the overwhelming majority of prisoners in Japanese hands, that the actual state of affairs is quite different.
The Chamber already knows that approximately 80 to 90 percent of Japanese interned civilians and military personnel are stationed in the southern region, which includes the Philippine Islands, the Dutch West Indies, Borneo, Malaya, Burma, Siam, and Indo-China. The Japanese government still does not allow representatives of neutral countries to visit the POW camps.
We could not get from the Japanese any information about the number of prisoners in various areas, nor their names.
His Majesty's Government have received information on the conditions of detention and work of prisoners of war in some parts of the area. This information was of such a gloomy nature that it could have thrown into dismay the relatives of prisoners and interned civilians in Japanese hands.
The Government considered it their duty to verify the accuracy of the information received before making it public.
Thousands of deaths
Now we are convinced of the reliability of the information received. It is my sad duty to inform the House that there are now many thousands of prisoners in Siam who hail from the British Commonwealth, and in particular from India.
The Japanese military forces them to live in a tropical jungle without good enough shelter, without clothes, food and medical care. The prisoners are forced to work on the laying of the railway and on the construction of roads in the jungle.
According to the information we have received, the prisoners' health is rapidly deteriorating. Many of them are seriously ill. Several thousand prisoners have already died. I can add to this that the Japanese informed us about the death of a little more than a hundred prisoners. Roads being built by prisoners go to Burma. The conditions I spoke about prevail throughout the construction.
Here is what one of the eyewitnesses says about the POW camp in Siam:
“I saw many prisoners, but they looked a little like people: skin and bones. The prisoners were half-naked, unshaven, long, regrown hair entangled in tatters.
The same witness said that the prisoners had neither hats nor shoes. I would like to remind the Chamber that this is taking place in an area with a tropical climate, in an almost deserted area where neither medical nor any other assistance from the population can be obtained.
We have information about the situation of prisoners in another part of this vast southern region. Information from Java indicates that prisoners held in unsanitary conditions in the camps are not protected from malaria. Food and clothing are not enough. This leads to a deterioration in the health of prisoners, who only sometimes manage to supplement their rations with something.
Information received from the northern region speaks of the complete exhaustion of most of the prisoners arriving from Java.
As for the conditions of detention in other parts of the southern region, I have no information that I could provide to the Chamber.
Before leaving the southern region, I must mention one exception. The information at our disposal suggests that conditions in the civilian internment camps are much better, at least bearable.
gross bullying
The refusal of the Japanese Government to grant neutral observers permission to inspect the camps in the southern region cannot be justified by plausible pretexts, since the Japanese Government allowed neutrals to inspect the camps in the northern region, which includes Hong Kong, Formosa, Shanghai, Korea and Japan. We believe, however, that this survey did not cover a sufficiently large number of camps.
His Majesty's Government have reason to believe that the conditions of prisoners in this area are generally tolerable, although the Minister of War has repeatedly pointed out that the food distributed is not enough to maintain health for a long time. I would like to add, however, that conditions in Hong Kong appear to be deteriorating.
If the trials experienced by the prisoners were limited only to what I have already told about, then this would be bad enough. But, unfortunately, the worst is yet to come.
We have a growing list of gross abuse and atrocities committed against individuals and groups. I would not like to burden the Chamber with a detailed account of the atrocities. But to give an idea of them, I unfortunately must give a few typical examples.
Let me first cite two cases of brutal treatment of civilians. An officer of the Shanghai Municipal Police, along with 300 other subjects of the allied countries, was sent by the Japanese to a camp for the so-called "politically unreliable" located on the Haifun road in Shanghai.
This officer aroused the displeasure of the Japanese gendarmerie against himself and was transferred to a station located in another part of the city. He returned from there distraught. Deep wounds on the arms and legs, left by the ropes, festered. He lost about 20 kilograms in weight. A day or two after his release, the officer died.
Execution of three prisoners
The second case occurred in the Philippine Islands. On January 11, 1942, three British subjects fled from a civilian internment camp in Santo Tomas (Manila).
They were caught and flogged.
On January 14, a military court sentenced them to death penalty, despite the fact that the international convention provides in this case only the imposition disciplinary punishment. The prisoners were shot with automatic weapons. They died in agony, because the first wounds were not fatal.
I turn now to cases of brutal treatment of soldiers. The Japanese, having captured a group of Indian soldiers in Burma, tied their hands behind their backs and put them on the road. Then the Japanese began to stab the prisoners one by one with bayonets. Apparently, three wounds were inflicted on each.
By some miracle, one of the soldiers managed to escape and make his way to our troops. From him we learned about this torture.
In another case, a British officer of a regiment known to us, who was taken prisoner in Burma, was subjected to torture. They beat him in the face with a saber, then they tied him to a post and tied a rope around his neck. In order not to suffocate, he had to reach up all the time. Then the officer was subjected to new torture.
Fortunately for him, at this time the soldiers of the allied army went on the offensive, the Japanese fled, and the officer was rescued by British tankers.
Ship of Terror
The third case concerns a ship called the Lisbon Maru, which was used by the Japanese to transport 1,800 British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.
The ship "Lisbon Maru".
In one hold, two prisoners died where they lay, and no attempt was made to remove their corpses.
On the morning of October 1, 1942, the Lisbon Maru was torpedoed by an Allied submarine. Japanese officers, soldiers and sailors left the prisoners locked in the holds and left the ship, although it sank only a day after the torpedoing.
The vessel had several life belts and other life-saving gear. Only a part of the prisoners managed to escape from the holds and swim to the shore under the fire of Japanese soldiers. The rest (at least 800 people) died.
Enough has been said to give an idea of the barbaric nature of our enemy, the Japanese. They violated not only the principles international law but also all norms of decent and civilized behavior.
His Majesty's Government has on many occasions, through the Swiss Government, made most vigorous representations to the Japanese Government.
The answers we have received are either evasive or cynical or simply unsatisfactory.
We had the right to expect that the Japanese government, having learned about these facts, would take measures to improve the conditions of the prisoners. The Japanese know well enough that a civilized power is obliged to protect the life and health of prisoners captured by its army. They showed this by their treatment of prisoners during Russo-Japanese War and the wars of 1914-1918.
Let the Japanese government consider that the behavior of the Japanese military authorities in the present war will not be forgotten.
It is with the deepest regret that I should have made this statement in the House of Commons. But after consultation with those Allies who are equally victims of these unspeakable atrocities, His Majesty's Government felt it their duty to make the facts public.
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Japan did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, and cruel jailers were free to do anything with prisoners: starve them, torture and mock them, turning people into emaciated half-corpses
When, after the surrender of Japan in September 1945, Allied forces began to free prisoners of war from Japanese concentration camps, a horrific sight met their eyes.
The Japanese, who did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, mocked the captured soldiers, turning them into living skeletons covered with leather.
The emaciated prisoners were constantly tortured and humiliated by the Japanese.
The inhabitants of the camps with horror pronounced the names of the guards, who became famous for their special sadism. Some of them were subsequently arrested and executed as war criminals.
prisoners in Japanese camps fed extremely poorly, they were constantly starving, most of the survivors by the time of liberation were in an extreme degree of exhaustion.
Tens of thousands of starving prisoners of war were constantly subjected to abuse and torture. The picture shows torture devices found in one of the prisoner of war camps by the Allied troops who liberated the camp.
The tortures were numerous and inventive. For example, “water torture” was very popular: the guards first poured a large volume of water into the prisoner’s stomach through a hose, and then jumped on his swollen stomach.
Some of the guards were especially notorious for their sadism. The picture shows Lieutenant Usuki, known among the prisoners as the "Black Prince".
He was an overseer at the construction of the railway, which the prisoners of war called the "road of death." Usuki beat people for the slightest offense or even without any guilt. And when one of the prisoners decided to run away, Usuki personally cut off his head in front of the rest of the prisoners.
Another brutal overseer - a Korean nicknamed "Mad Half-Blood" - also became famous for brutal beatings.
He literally beat people to death. He was subsequently arrested and executed as a war criminal.
Very many British prisoners of war in captivity underwent leg amputations - both because of cruel torture, and because of the numerous inflammations, the cause of which in a humid warm climate could be any wound, and in the absence of an adequate medical care inflammation quickly developed into gangrene.
On the picture - large group amputee prisoners after being released from the camp.
Many prisoners by the time of release literally turned into living skeletons and could no longer stand up on their own.
The horrifying pictures were taken by officers of the allied forces who liberated the death camps: they were supposed to be evidence of Japanese war crimes during World War II.
During the war, more than 140 thousand soldiers of the allied forces were captured by the Japanese, including representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, India and the United States.
The labor of prisoners was used by the Japanese in the construction of the highway, railways, airfields, for work in mines and factories. The working conditions were unbearable and the amount of food was minimal.
Particularly terrible fame was enjoyed by the "road of death" - a railway line built on the territory of modern Burma.
More than 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were involved in its construction, about 12,000 of them died during construction from starvation, disease and abuse.
The Japanese overseers abused the prisoners as best they could.
About 36,000 prisoners of war were transported to central Japan, where they worked in mines, shipyards, and munitions factories.
The captives ended up in the camp in the clothes in which they were captured. Japanese troops. They were not given other things: only sometimes, in some camps, they received work clothes, which were worn only during work.
The rest of the time the prisoners wore their own things. Therefore, by the time of liberation, most of the prisoners of war remained in perfect rags.
What were the Japanese "death camps" like?
A collection of photographs taken during the liberation of prisoners from the Japanese death camps has been published in Britain. These photographs are no less shocking than photographs from German concentration camps. Japan did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, and cruel jailers were free to do anything with prisoners: starve them, torture and mock them, turning people into emaciated half-corpses.
When, after the surrender of Japan in September 1945, Allied forces began to free prisoners of war from Japanese concentration camps, a horrific sight met their eyes. The Japanese, who did not support the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, mocked the captured soldiers, turning them into living skeletons covered with leather.
The emaciated prisoners were constantly tortured and humiliated by the Japanese. The inhabitants of the camps with horror pronounced the names of the guards, who became famous for their special sadism. Some of them were subsequently arrested and executed as war criminals.
The prisoners in the Japanese camps were fed extremely poorly, they were constantly starving, most of the survivors were in an extreme state of exhaustion by the time of liberation.
Tens of thousands of starving prisoners of war were constantly subjected to abuse and torture. The photo shows torture devices found in one of the prisoner of war camps by the Allied troops who liberated the camp. The tortures were numerous and inventive. For example, "water torture" was very popular: the guards first poured a large volume of water into the prisoner's stomach through a hose, and then jumped on his swollen stomach.
Some of the guards were especially notorious for their sadism. The picture shows Lieutenant Usuki, known among the prisoners as the "Black Prince". He was an overseer on the construction of the railway, which the prisoners of war called the "road of death." Usuki beat people for the slightest offense or even without any guilt. And when one of the prisoners decided to run away, Usuki personally cut off his head in front of the rest of the prisoners.
Another brutal overseer - a Korean nicknamed "Mad Half-Blood" - also became famous for brutal beatings. He literally beat people to death. He was subsequently arrested and executed as a war criminal.
Very many British prisoners of war in captivity were subjected to amputation of the legs - both because of cruel torture, and because of the numerous inflammations that could be caused by any wound in a humid warm climate, and in the absence of adequate medical care, the inflammation quickly developed into gangrene.
The picture shows a large group of amputee prisoners after being released from the camp.
Many prisoners by the time of release literally turned into living skeletons and could no longer stand up on their own.
The horrifying pictures were taken by officers of the allied forces who liberated the death camps: they were supposed to be evidence of Japanese war crimes during World War II.
During the war, more than 140 thousand soldiers of the allied forces were captured by the Japanese, including representatives from Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, the Netherlands, Great Britain, India and the United States.
The Japanese used the labor of prisoners in the construction of highways, railways, airfields, to work in mines and factories. The working conditions were unbearable and the amount of food was minimal.
Especially terrible fame was enjoyed by the "road of death" - a railway line built on the territory of modern Burma. More than 60,000 Allied prisoners of war were involved in its construction, about 12,000 of them died during construction from starvation, disease and abuse.
The Japanese overseers abused the prisoners as best they could. The captives were loaded with work that was clearly beyond the power of emaciated people, and severely punished for failing to comply with the norm.
In such wrecked huts, in constant dampness, crowding and crowding, prisoners of war lived in Japanese camps.
About 36,000 prisoners of war were transported to central Japan, where they worked in mines, shipyards, and munitions factories.
The captives ended up in the camp in the clothes in which they were captured by the Japanese troops. They were not given other things: only sometimes, in some camps, they received work clothes, which were worn only during work. The rest of the time the prisoners wore their own things. Therefore, by the time of liberation, most of the prisoners of war remained in perfect rags.
