DIE IN for the "Comfort Women" of WWII at the University of Miami 5/12/07

The University of Miami's annual DIE IN, sponsored by UM's Amnesty International gathers all groups who support those who have suffered violations of human rights. Among the groups this day, were the women and men of Friends of Lolas, a group standing in solidarity with the 200,000 surviving "Comfort Women" of WWII, especially the grandmothers of Liga Ng Mga Lolang Piliipina -- M. Evelina Galang's beautiful Lolas of the Philippines. Here Galang sets up the women's stories, as students stand by to read testimonies from survivors. For more go to http://labanforthelolas.blogspot.com

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Widespread looting in occupied territories (valuable goods from banks, depositories, temples, churches, mosques, museums, businesses, private homes, etc.) was organized on a massive scale by official secret organization called Kin no yuri (Golden Lily) headed by Chichibu, Hirohito’s brother.

Mass raped by Japanese soldiers in Magelang, Central Java, Indonesia, where some victims were pre-menstruating girls.

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Live burial of POWs and civilians.

8,000 Australian and Dutch POWs died in Tarsau, Thailand.

After March 20, 1943, the Japanese Navy was under orders to execute all POWs taken at sea.

A tacit order from Hirohito to execute all Chinese POWs before the surrender of Japan, out of thousands of Chinese POWs, only 56 survived; and to eliminate evidences, all surviving human test subjects in Japanese Army’s chemical and biological research units were executed before the surrender of Japan.

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Thousands of POWs and captured civilians were transported to Japan, Taiwan, Indochina, Manchuria, or Korea to be used as forced labor perished in Hell ships such as Oryoku Maru, Junyo Maru, Dainichi Maru, Arisan Maru, and many more.

More than 100,000 civilians and POWs died in the construction of the Death Railway (or Thailand-Burma Railway).

Only 52,000 of the 270,000 Javanese forced laborers being sent to other Japanese held areas survived after WWII, a death rate of 80%.

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Most victims of the human experimentations were Chinese, also American, British, Australian and Russian POWs.

At least six different chemical and biological attacks were conducted in China, such as Changde chemical and biological weapon attack in Hunan, and twice Kaimingjie germ weapon attacks in Zhejiang, chemical weapons attack in Battle of Wuhan and Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang.

Cyanide gas was tested on Australian and Dutch POWs on Kai Islands of Indonesia.

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Various Japanese Army Units (100, 200, 516, 543, 731, 773, 1644, 1855, 2646, 8604, 9420) researched and developed chemical (potassium cyanide, phosgene, chlorine, hydrogen cyanide, arsenic trichloride, sulfer mustard, lewisite etc.) and biological (anthrax, glanders, rusts, bubonic plague, typhoid, typhus, cholera, smallpox, botulism, tuberculosis, malaria, etc.) weapons, and conducted lethal human experimentations on the general population in Japanese occupied territories.

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The Three Alls Policy (Kill all, Burn all, Loot all) sanctioned by Hirohito was to massacre an entire village if they suspected an enemy hiding in the village, such as the Panjiayu Massacre in Hebei, China.

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The followings are all well documented massacres and war crimes committed by the Japanese Army during WWII:

• Alexandra hospital Massacre in Singapore.

• Bangka Island Massacre in Duch East Indies (now Indonesia).

• Bataan Death March in Philippines.

• Benxihu Colliery in Liaoning, China.

• Bombing of Darwin and Broome, Australia.

• Changjiao Massacre in Hunan, China.

• Double Tenth Incident in Singapore.

• Kalagong Massacre in Burma.