Posted on 08/07/2015 12:22:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
MOSCOW, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- An international military tribunal should be formed to examine the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Russian officials suggested at a roundtable discussion at Moscow State University.
State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin said historians and military science specialists have long argued whether nuclear weapons should ever be allowed in war. A tribunal would examine international law as it relates to wartime practices.
In May, Naryshkin labeled the bombings in Japan at the end of World War II a "crime against humanity, which still has not been correctly assessed." At the time, he was speaking at the annual Russian-Japanese Forum in Tokyo.
"Many funeral and memorial events will be held in Japan in the beginning of August, which would be 70 years after these barbaric and inhumane bombings took place. We in Russia will grieve along with our Japanese friends," Naryshkin said then.
At Wednesday's discussion, the Russian Foreign Ministry distributed a copy of a special report from employees of the Soviet Embassy to Japan after visiting the two sites in 1945. Officials said the document is being published for the first time.
The report describes the scene: "It was raining heavily on the day the team arrived in Hiroshima. The train station and the town were obliterated with no cover against the rain."
Citing witnesses to the blast, the report said, "A huge explosion followed a flare-up, and many people were subsequently burned to death."
On the radioactive impact on people, the report, quoting a doctor named Fukuhara, said some saw their white blood cell count plummet and bled from the nose and eyes. Some died three to four days after exposure.
In Nagasaki, the Soviet team noted, there were no survivors around ground zero. A witness said a child who had climbed a tree and was covered by thick layers of leaves did not die, while a child nearby on the ground did.
"Society's interest in this issue is very keen. I would propose that this document be posted on the Russian Historical Society's web site in the near future, even today," Naryshkin said Wednesday.
"The Foreign Ministry leadership has decided to make a copy of this report, which has never been published before, even in Russian academic publications. In our view, it deserves to be published in the run-up to this anniversary," said Alexander Ilyshev-Vvedensky, head of the Japanese division within the Russian Foreign Ministry's Third Asia Department.
The atomic bombs dropped by the United States on the two Japanese cities killed at least 130,000 people. The bombings were the only time in the history of warfare that nuclear weapons were used.
Residents in Hiroshima were preparing to mark the somber 70-year anniversary of the bombings this week. Dozens of people also lit candles outside the Japanese Embassy in Moscow to commemorate the thousands of victims lost.
“He must do this stuff just to poke our Dear Reader in the eye...
Because he can...”
It has to kill Obama, because I’m willing to bet Obama agrees with Putin on this.
Expect a forthcoming offer of reparations to Japan and to Russia (and probably Iran too) as well for our actions there from Obama.
German women in the eastern sector could testify...
My thoughts.
lol!
University: The dumbest and most ignorant people are found at universities.
I’d urge everyone to read some of the late Robert Conquest’s books, really eye-opening indeed.
Also: http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-The-Hidden-Holocaust/dp/0393304167 , the author survived it as a young boy.
Doubt it...
There's no race angle here for Obama to exploit...
Now if we nuked Africa, that would have been a whole different story...
Killing all those Lions...
This UPI story is a bit of a nothing-burger, I didn’t know if they were talking about Moscow State University in Idaho or Russia at first.
Oh, I understand. Russia does not want anyone to have nuclear weapons.....except Russia!
These commie-pinkos sure have audacity and a complete disregard for history. Is this a distraction from their own history?
Two cities, some 120k killed, and countless American lives saved by not having to invade mainland Japan ... I like that trade. The two atomic bombs were perhaps even more humane than the repeated fire bombing of Tokyo that took place over months and killed even more.
Bottom line - it ended a war that we did not start.
Come and talk to us after all of the countries involved have repaid their WWII debts to Uncle Sam.
The pilot recited this:
Eenie, minie, virgin blushin'
Kill the goddxmn fxckin Russian
Button push
Let’s have a tribunal about the despicable attack on Pearl Harbor first.
“Doubt it...
There’s no race angle here for Obama to exploit...”
The only thing Obama likes more than race pimping is proving that America is evil.
70 years ago. Are today’s people to be held responsible for actions in 1945?
Russia, I am sure, felt equally sympathetic towards Japan after their navy was utterly wiped out by Japan in 1905.
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