The crimes of "Unit 731" .. Japan almost wiped out humanity with dozens of deadly viruses

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The Russian Federal Security Service declassified documents related to the Khabarovsk trials, or as it is called "Khabarovsk-Nuremberg", on the basis of which the evidence base for the crimes committed by Japan in World War II was formed to hold the trials, as Japan's development of lethal weapons continued until the end of World War II Japan surrenders.

Tens of thousands of civilians of different nationalities were victims of inhumane Japanese experiments.

Turning the old typewritten pages of the endless volumes of trials, which until recently were classified as secret, you realize that the world was on the verge of a terrible catastrophe, as documents reveal that Japan almost wiped out humanity with dozens of deadly viruses , as reported by Russian news agencies.

According to these documents, the entire planet was likely to be affected by dozens of deadly viruses, and the number of civilian casualties would have been much greater than what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, if the Japanese military empire had succeeded in implementing its plans.

The former commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, General Yatozo Yamada, spoke about this at the Khabarovsk trial in 1949.

"We had no doubts, we had an order, and we were going to enforce it," he said. "There was enough of this killer bacteria to cover the whole world with it."

Despite international documents signed by Japan regarding the non-use of bacteriological weapons, its development continued from the early 1940s until the end of World War II, when tens of thousands of Chinese, Koreans, and Mongols fell victim to human testing of bacteriological weapons.

For this purpose, two highly secret divisions of the Kwantung Army were created: Unit 731 and Unit 100.

The Kwantung Army was formed in 1906 as a security force for the Leased Territory of Kwantung and Manchuria Southern Railway District after the Russo-Japanese War, then the Kwantung Army became the most famous entity in the Imperial Japanese Army, and many of its members were promoted to senior positions in the Japanese military and civil government and its leaders took control of the political and economic decision in the country.

In August 1945, Soviet forces engaged the Kwantung Army during Operation Manchurian Strategic Offensive.

The Kwantung Army surrendered to the Soviets the day after Japan's surrender and was later disbanded.

The Kwantung Army was responsible for many of Japan's worst war crimes during World War II, including sponsoring Unit 731, which administered biological warfare and human experimentation on civilians and prisoners of war.

The revealed documents say that Japan not only developed bacteriological weapons, but also used them during World War II.

Elements of Units 731 and 100 targeted rivers in China to spread infection and viruses, where the infection could reach through the rivers to the territory of the Soviet Union, later becoming more than 10,000 Chinese victims of the inhuman experiments conducted by the Japanese.

I also had the 731 operatives with a particular passion for experimenting with pregnant women.

About these experiences, the writer and historian, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Alexander Zvyagintsev says: “When I read these documents, I realized that they are the torturers of hell with human faces and the spirit of the devil.

The wombs of pregnant women were removed to extract the fetuses from their mothers alive, and they were dissected live, and thus a bacteriological weapon was tested.”

In fact, these are unique documents, including the interrogation protocol of a military commander, who talks about Unit 731, the same unit that carried out bacteriological weapons tests, the victims of which were Chinese and Soviet citizens, including the Red Army, who were sent to the unit to be killed with bacteriological weapons.

The data obtained during the "Khabarovsk Trial" was published in English in the early 1950s by the Soviet Union, but it went unheeded, as it was considered "Soviet propaganda".

But this was well-documented evidence of some of the "most horrific experiments in history," says Peter Kuznik, professor in the history department and director of the Institute for Nuclear Research at American University in Washington, and author.

The documents say that in the Tokyo trial, which was conducted by the Americans after the surrender of Japan, the question of preparation for bacteriological war against the Soviets was never raised.

Moreover, some of the war criminals, the developers of this deadly weapon, immigrated to the United States and continued to operate there.

Some of the crimes of Unit 731

Unit 731's crimes began when Shiro Ishii, a Japanese physician and microbiologist, assumed the position of commanding general in the infamous unit.

Ishii's military medical career began in 1932 when he was chosen to lead the Biological Warfare Department.

His mission was to conduct secret experiments on human subjects in a secret concentration camp. Funded by the Japanese government, Ishii had more than 150 buildings constructed in a massive complex covering more than 2 square miles and holding 400 prisoners.

This camp was known as Unit 731 and its operations were carried out under the guise of "Department of Epidemic Prevention and Water Purification" of the Kwantung Army.

From 1942 to 1945, Dr. Ishi released his cruel experiments that were committed on Chinese humans while they were alive, he considered the Chinese to be second-class humans and created for experiments in order to save first-class humans.

All his crimes were under the name of "medical research" aimed at defeating Japan's wartime enemies.

He decided to engage in shady activities, involving men, women, pregnant women, the elderly, children and even infants.

Unit 731 had a freezer that could be set to minus 50 degrees Fahrenheit.

He froze hands and arms to create frostbite, some frozen limbs were thawed to study rotting human flesh, and other victims were dried to death.

In addition to shooting prisoners in the stomach so that Japanese surgeons could practice removing bullets, he conducted other experiments such as removing the stomach and connecting the esophagus directly to the intestine.

He also amputated legs and arms without anesthesia, and injected people with seawater to determine if it could be used as a substitute for saline.

In addition, it removes parts of the liver to determine how long a person can survive before they die.

He also exposed prisoners to phosphorous or chloride gas, and injected some with animal blood, and some were buried alive.

They were in Unit 731 injecting prisoners with deadly viruses and bacteria such as plague, cholera, anthrax, typhoid, tuberculosis, and syphilis.

This notorious unit tested bombs containing bacteria and viruses for the aforementioned diseases, as they tied up innocent people and threw bombs on them.

In addition, Unit 731 nursed plague fleas in their laboratories and devised "flea bombs" and other devices designed to spread germs and parasites, which were dropped on Chinese military personnel and civilians during World War II.

In addition, Ishi poisoned food and sweets and distributed them to the captive victims who were suffering from starvation, they were only greeted with what they believed to be the kindness of Japanese soldiers. After consumption, the victims were examined, and estimates of deaths from these fatal diseases ranged from 200,000 to 580,000 were mostly Chinese men, women and babies.

After the Emperor surrendered and the war ended, Ishii realized that he would be tried for his war crimes, so he faked his death and went into hiding to escape justice.

Found in 1946 and handed over to US occupation forces for interrogation, the US was careful that information from Ishii's biological weapons experiments, including the results of his numerous medical experiments on humans, did not pass to the Soviets.

The United States also wanted to supplement the base of its germ warfare program with the results of biological warfare experiments conducted at Unit 731.

After his arrest, Dr. Ishii offered to reveal details of the experiments conducted in Unit 731 in exchange for immunity from all war crimes he had committed.

The United States agreed and struck a deal that included immunity for high-level members of his medical research team, as well as promises that he and his team would not be prosecuted for war crimes, luring these researchers with money and other gifts from the United States to share what they learned in Unit 731. Thus, Ishii He was not punished for his crimes, and in 1960 he succumbed to throat cancer at the age of 67.

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