Japanese Unit 731 of
World War II
[i]Mr Makino was
stationed there during the war. What he never told anybody,
including his wife, was that during the four months before Japan's
defeat in March 1945, he dissected ten Filipino prisoners of war,
including two teenage girls. He cut out their livers, kidneys and
wombs while they were still alive. Only when he cut open their
hearts did they finally perish.
These barbaric acts
were, he said this week, "educational", to improve his knowledge of
anatomy. "We removed some of the organs and amputated legs and
arms. Two of the victims were young women, 18 or 19 years old. I
hesitate to say it but we opened up their wombs while they were
still alive to show the younger soldiers. They knew very little
about women - it was sex education."
The secret government
department which organised such experiments in Japanese-occupied
China took delight in experimenting on their subjects while they
were still alive.
A jovial old Japanese
farmer who in the war had been a medical assistant in a Japanese
army unit in China described to a U.S. reporter recently what it
was like to dissect a Chinese prisoner who was still
alive.
Munching rice cakes, he
reminisced: "The fellow knew it was over for him, and so he didn't
struggle when they led him into the room and tied him down. But
when I picked up the scalpel, that's when he began screaming. I cut
him open from the chest to the stomach and he screamed terribly,
and his face was all twisted in agony.
"He made this
unimaginable sound, he was screaming so horribly. But then finally
he stopped.
"This was all in a
day's work for the surgeons, but it really left an impression on me
because it was my first time." The man could not be sedated, added
the farmer, because it might have distorted the
experiment.
The place where these
atrocities occurred was an undercover medical experimentation unit
of the Imperial Japanese Army. It was known officially as the
Anti-Epidemic Water Supply and Purification Bureau - but all the
Japanese who worked there knew it simply as Unit
731.[/i]
Above quoted from
:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-439776/Doctors-Depravity.html
Wikipedia on Unit
731
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731
Unit 731 dramatized on
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdH7VQ3lzVk
