Chinese State Run Media reveals Japanese Armymans killing of 831 Chinese. - Polidicks

[url]http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140713/japanese-war-criminal-confesses-killing-831-chinese[/url] [QUOTE]BEIJING, July 13 (Xinhua) -- Keiji Saganaka, a Japanese armyman, confessed he had killed 831 Chinese people, including 434 civilians, during Japan's aggression war against China in the late 1930s, according to archives. China's State Archives Administration (SAA) on Sunday shows the confession of the war criminal, born in Fukushima Prefecture of Japan in 1916 and stationed in Sanjiang County of the "Manchukuo" in April 1937. According to the written confession, Keiji killed a total of 831 Chinese people, including 420 male inhabitants, 14 female inhabitants, 98 militiamen, 252 soldiers of the Eighth Route Army, 38 anti-Japanese soldiers of other armies and nine prisoners of war. Keiji said his methods of killing include shooting, bayoneting, beheading, burning, smashing, starving and imprisoning. Through methods such as shooting, slashing, exploding with landmines and bayoneting, Keiji said he wounded 519 people. He also "raped 34 Chinese women" and "used poison gas" once in the battlefield. [/QUOTE]

It's not like Japan is going to say sorry, they'll just ignore it like they do every war-crime.

this is such blatant propaganda though

The fact that barely anyone was held responsible for the atrocities inflicted on the Chinese during the second world war gets on my nerves. We're talking about some of the worst actions of WW2, and stupid realpolitik bullshit took over and shielded war criminals.

[QUOTE=DeveloperConsol;45454720]this is such blatant propaganda though[/QUOTE] Propaganda or not, that's one terrifying list of crimes to be attached to any person or persons.

[QUOTE=Keiji Saganaka]We killed a severely sick soldier through vivisection[/QUOTE] You're leaving some of the worst parts out. He also used them as human landmine detectors. Also, this is only the 11th set of 45 confessions. So there are about 34 more of these gruesome stories that haven't been released to the public yet.

Wait, so he didn't actually confess just now, this is an old confession that was sitting in the SAA (State Archives) for all these years and they've decided to publish them now? Edit: Hell, is he even alive? For him to have confessed something that the Chinese recorded, wouldn't he have been in Chinese custody?

[QUOTE=chumchum;45454921]Wait, so he didn't actually confess just now, this is an old confession that was sitting in the SAA (State Archives) for all these years and they've decided to publish them now? Edit: Hell, is he even alive? For him to have confessed something that the Chinese recorded, wouldn't he have been in Chinese custody?[/QUOTE] I imagine they would have tortured and executed the guy... Seems like the Chinese justice system is all about retribution, control and winning popularity.

[QUOTE=jonu67;45454544]It's not like Japan is going to say sorry, they'll just ignore it like they do every war-crime.[/QUOTE] It's not like other countries don't do that. The US burned Korean villages including the inhabitants to the ground. The Dutch massacred Indians on Java. Nearly every country has done it.

[QUOTE=joost1120;45457955]It's not like other countries don't do that. The US burned Korean villages including the inhabitants to the ground. The Dutch massacred Indians on Java. Nearly every country has done it.[/QUOTE] How does that make it any better?

[QUOTE=joost1120;45457955]It's not like other countries don't do that. The US burned Korean villages including the inhabitants to the ground. The Dutch massacred Indians on Java. Nearly every country has done it.[/QUOTE] A single event is being talked about, why are you trying to skirt the issue and make it seems like "eh, no big deal, other countries have committed atrocities". No shit.

[QUOTE=joost1120;45457955]It's not like other countries don't do that. The US burned Korean villages including the inhabitants to the ground. The Dutch massacred Indians on Java. Nearly every country has done it.[/QUOTE] The British literally set up camps to slaughter thousands of people during the Boer wars, for the express purpose of extermination and breaking enemy moral. That doesn't mean that German concentration camps are OK, or that US internment camps are OK, or that Japanese Unit 731 is OK. Our world's history is fucked up, filled with mass murder and brutality for the sake of brutality, but that doesn't mean any of it's justified just because someone did it before.

[QUOTE=Trunk Monkay;45462535]Our world's history is fucked up, filled with mass murder and brutality for the sake of brutality, but [B]that doesn't mean any of it's justified just because someone did it before.[/B][/QUOTE] if that were the case then, going back far enough, you could basically justify almost anything

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;45462599]if that were the case then, going back far enough, you could basically justify almost anything[/QUOTE] thats basically my point.