2023-06-11 02:49:26
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human trials“Horror bunker” of the cruel Japanese unit 731 discovered
During World War II, Japanese special forces used civilians in China for inhumane medical experiments. Now one of their places of work has been discovered.
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Unit 731 was a secret biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that conducted lethal human experiments during the occupation of China.
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The aerial view shows the newly discovered test site near the city of Anda. According to the archaeologists, this is one of the facilities of Unit 731.
Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology
Unit 731: That’s the point
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Archaeologists have discovered a bunker belonging to the notorious Japanese Unit 731 in China.
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Unit 731 conducted gruesome human experiments during the Japanese occupation.
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After World War II, leaders received immunity from the US in exchange for information.
Researchers have uncovered a secret underground bunker operated by the notorious Japanese Unit 731 during China’s occupation. The bunker is located near the city of Anda in the province of Heilongjiang in the far northeast of China. According to the archaeologists, the Japanese used the bunker from 1941 to 1945.
That was unit 731
Unit 731 was a secret arm of the Japanese occupying army in China, founded in 1931, known as the Kwantung Army. Its official name was “Kwantung Army Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Department Headquarters,” but its real mission was the research and development of chemical and biological warfare agents. Unit 731 was headed by Lieutenant General and doctor Ishii Shirō. He is dubbed the Japanese Josef Mengele for his cruelty, in reference to the sadistic Nazi doctor.
Those were the crimes of Unit 731
Members of Unit 731 conducted experiments on men, women, and children. To dehumanize them, the Japanese spoke of marutas, in German “wooden blocks”. They have been abused for experiments with grenades, flamethrowers, chemical and biological weapons, and deadly pathogens. A former commander of Unit 731, during a war crimes tribunal in China, described seeing people tied to stakes and bombs filled with anthrax being dropped from planes over them, according to the Southern China Morning Post. Other Unit 731 victims were dissected alive without anesthesia to study the effects of agents and pathogens, or left to die of thirst or freeze to death.
That’s how many people Unit 731 killed
Around 12,000 people died an agonizing death directly as a result of the experiments or in captivity. However, many more people died from weapons developed by Unit 731. Fleas infected with the plague were bred on millions of rats, which were then dropped on Chinese cities from airplanes in specially designed clay bombs. There they triggered outbreaks that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
Archaeologists found this
The underground facility consists of several rooms connected by tunnels, as the researchers report in the journal “Northern Cultural Relics”. They partially uncovered a U-shaped structure that was 1.5 meters below ground. It is around 33 meters long and 21 meters wide. The researchers assume that the rooms were laboratories, observation and dissection rooms, prison cells and rooms for the soldiers and medics.
That’s why the fund is important
According to researchers from the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the discovery might lead to new insights into Japan’s war crimes. “It also highlights the ongoing impact of the atrocities committed by Unit 731 and their impact on global efforts to prevent biological warfare.”
That happened with Unit 731
When the Red Army advanced into Manchuria in August 1945, the above-ground facilities at Anda were destroyed to destroy evidence of the atrocities. Those prisoners who were still alive were murdered. After the surrender of Japan in September 1945, the crimes of Unit 731 were covered up by the USA. Many leaders, including Shirō Ishii, were granted immunity by the US once morest the will of the Soviet Union, which protected them from prosecution for war crimes. In return, the Japanese shared their findings with the United States. The information later ended up at Fort Detrick, Maryland, where the US officially operated its biological weapons program until 1969. The Fort Detrick chief described the information as invaluable because Unit 731’s experiments “might never have been conducted in the United States because of the scruples associated with human experimentation.”
What are biological weapons?
Biological weapons are weapons of mass destruction that use pathogens or natural toxins as weapons. They can be directed once morest both organisms and materials. About 200 possible pathogens that might be used as biological weapons are currently known. The Biological Weapons Convention has banned the development, manufacture and use of biological weapons since 1972.
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