Posted on 07/03/2005 4:40:56 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Japan's wartime gas plant found in N. China
www.chinaview.cn 2005-07-03 07:39:53
HOHHOT, July 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese experts have discovered new evidence of the Japanese wartime atrocity in China -- a toxic gas experiment plant in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The plant, known to the locals as "Bayanhan", is located on the grassland of the Ewenki Autonomous Banner in Hulun Buir city, said Xu Zhanjiang, a researcher on the history of Japanese biological war with the Harbin Municipal Academy of Social Sciences in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
"The site covers more than 110 square kilometers, extending nine kilometers from east to west and 13 kilometers from north to south," said Xu. "Pits big and small are seen on the grassland even today."
The Inner Mongolia-based researcher said the Japanese soldiers used to conduct biological tests here during the World War II, by blasting gas bombs in pits buried with live human beings and animals.
He said a veteran Japanese soldier also gave a vivid account of his army's biological tests in Inner Mongolia in a biography about the Japanese chemical warfare in China.
Abide, a native Mongolian born in 1920, said a friend of his witnessed such tests in 1940. "In the spring of 1941, local herders still smelt a suffocating smell at the site. Many men and cattle were later infected with pestilence."
Xu said the Japanese had set up the toxic gas plant here because the outlying grassland was sparsely populated and therefore other people were unlikely to find out about their atrocity.
"On the other hand, the Japanese army was planning to attack the former USSR from here, because Hulun Buir resembles Russia very much in terms of climate and other natural conditions."
Cultural heritage authorities in Hulun Buir city say they plan to include the plant as a heritage site for better preservation. Enditem
Ping!
When will the AP Wire service file a FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT to China to have all this information released so as to EXPOSE all past possible THREATS AND OUTRAGES TO HUMANITY....LIKE THEY DID AT GITMO.
GOOD LUCK WITH CHINA!! AHAHAHA
And the REST of you out there better start learning how to speak CHINESE!!
"And the REST of you out there better start learning how to speak CHINESE!"
Yea, right.
No kidding. Just as China is beginning to feel internal unrest, the anti-Japanese propaganda is coming out of the woodwork. Next, it will be atrocities by American troops against Chinese soldiers during the Korean War.
No kidding. Nice timing. Just as China is beginning to experience political unrest, the anti-Japanese stuff comes out of the woodwork. Next it will be alleged atrocities by American troops against Chinese soldiers during the Korean War.
I suppose that the Japanese government could simply claim that it was a "baby milk factory". The press would lap it up...
It has always bothered me that the United States cut a deal with those who ran the Japanese chemical warfare program after the war. The United States government agreed not to prosecute in return for getting information on the program. Those people were allowed to walk free, even though they had murdered thousands during their tests. Some American prisoners of war might have been used as guinea pigs. Once we had the information we should have said, "We lied," and then prosecuted them like we did Tojo and all the rest.
Right.
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