Japan tested biological weapons on humans in Harbin, China during World War II.
Japan tested biological weapons on humans in Harbin, China during World War II.
Expert assessment of the Academy of Geopolitics.
We continue to study the classified materials of the Second World War, the beginning of the article is here; - "Historical facts about the Second World War: Germany finally surrendered at the request of the Soviet Union." -https: //nt.am/ru/news/283632 and here -https: //bit.ly/3yPc63D.
First, let's recall how the war between the USSR and Japan began on August 8, 1945.
1945 at 17.00 Molotov received the Japanese ambassador Sato and handed over an application for joining the war with Japan from the next day.
“The demand of the three powers - the USA, Great Britain and China for surrender was rejected by Japan, - Molotov read to the ambassador. "The allies turned to the USSR with a proposal to join the war in order to reduce its duration and the number of victims ..." Preparing for a war against the Union and other states, the Japanese ruling circles and national special services pinned great hopes on the use of bacteriological weapons in combat conditions. It was seen as a means capable of playing an almost decisive role in the fight against enemy troops. Development and testing, including on living people, were carried out by special detachments 731 and 100 of the Kwantung Army: dktalno in an interview with academician Araik Sargsyan zles - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4TUw9xAAQg&t=123s.
They set up experiments on infecting people with the bacteria of plague, anthrax, cholera, typhoid and other microbes. Most of the infected died in terrible agony. Those who recovered were retested and eventually killed too. Internal organs were cut out from living people to see how the infection spreads throughout the body. The Japanese military conducted other inhuman experiments as well.
According to the recollections of the staff of Detachment 731, during its existence, about three thousand people died within the walls of the laboratories. According to other estimates, the number of victims reaches ten thousand.
On September 2, 1945, the Japanese government signed the Act of Surrender, which marked the end of World War II.
The last point was the Khabarovsk trial: on December 25-30, 1949, the military tribunal of the Primorsky Military District considered the case on the accusation of the Japanese military in the preparation and use of bacteriological weapons. The main defendant Yamada then received 25 years in the camps - the capital punishment in the USSR at that time.
Sei Yamamoto in June 1950 was sentenced by the Military Tribunal of the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Far Eastern Military District also to 25 years in the camps.
The head of Detachment 731, Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii, escaped punishment. In 1945, the Americans took refuge in him, and later he worked both in Japan and in the United States. He died in 1959 at home.
To be continued.
Araik P. Sargsyan, Academician, President of the Academy of Geopolitics, former Honorary Consul of Macedonia in Armenia, Member of the ROIS.