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06/23/11(Thu)13:38 No.51019279R.
J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of
Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military
murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely
6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese,
among others, including Western prisoners of war. "This democide was due
to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military
expediency and custom, and national culture."[36] According to Rummel,
in China alone, during 1937-45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were
killed, mostly civilians, as a direct result of the Japanese operations
and 10.2 millions in the course of the war.[37] The most infamous
incident during this period was the Nanking Massacre of 1937-38, when,
according to the findings of the International Military Tribunal for the
Far East, the Japanese Army massacred as many as 300,000 civilians and
prisoners of war, although the accepted figure[by whom?] is somewhere in
the hundreds of thousands.[38] In Southeast Asia, the Manila massacre,
resulted in the death of 100,000 civilians in the Philippines. It is
estimated that at least one out of every 20 Filipinos died at the hand
of the Japanese during the occupation.[39][40] In the Sook Ching
massacre, Lee Kuan Yew, the ex-Prime Minister of Singapore, said during
an interview on with National Geographic that there were between 50,000
and 90,000 casualties[41] while according to Major General Kawamura
Saburo, there were 5000 casualties in total.[42] There were other
massacres of civilians e.g. the Kalagong massacre.
Historian
Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was
implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible
for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This
scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed
Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All." |