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Russia calls for military tribunal on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
United Press International ^ | August 6, 2015 | Jared M. Feldschreiber

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.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Japan; Russia
KEYWORDS: hiroshima; nagasaki; russia; truman
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Right after the tribunal on Soviet Communism and Japanese imperialism. How many victims were there of those two systems?
1 posted on 08/07/2015 12:22:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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If it weren’t for the atomic bombing of these two cities, the USSR would have actually had to fight Japan, and many lives would have been lost on all sides. Suck it up.


2 posted on 08/07/2015 12:23:39 PM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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Maybe Putin can talk about his heroe’s policy of mass gang rape of civilians. Oh wait, Putin has actually complimented rapists on their “manliness.”


3 posted on 08/07/2015 12:23:53 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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Yeah, how about a “tribunal” on the Kulaks, about twenty million of whom were intentionally starved to death.


4 posted on 08/07/2015 12:24:05 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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Russia calls for military tribunal on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

NO! They've suffered too much already!
5 posted on 08/07/2015 12:24:08 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Jealousy and Bomb Envy are SO unbecoming!


6 posted on 08/07/2015 12:24:15 PM PDT by Tigerized (Your Personal Safety is Yours, and Yours Alone. Aim Small, Miss Small.)
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To: Resettozero

Hahahahaha!


7 posted on 08/07/2015 12:24:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (TED CRUZ. You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: Steely Tom

Stalin’s purges? 50 Million at least


8 posted on 08/07/2015 12:25:21 PM PDT by scooby321
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Okay Putin lovers, lets see you explain this away.


9 posted on 08/07/2015 12:26:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If the fetus at one minute old is not alive, what is it?)
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Russia calls for military tribunal on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

When predators (even weak predators) smell fear and weakness; they attack.

Obama has turned America into a weak, lame gazelle, and the diseased and decrepit lion is hungry.

10 posted on 08/07/2015 12:28:06 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
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Sure thing. And while we're at it, let's form a tribunal to investigate how cars from the 40s have contributed to this alleged thing called global warming.

It would be about as effective.

11 posted on 08/07/2015 12:28:35 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism. It is incompatible with real freedom.)
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The Katyn Forest massacre. They even spent nearly 50 years blaming it on the Germans.


12 posted on 08/07/2015 12:28:58 PM PDT by LT Brass Bancroft
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He must do this stuff just to poke our Dear Reader in the eye...

Because he can...

13 posted on 08/07/2015 12:29:24 PM PDT by Popman (Christ Alone: My Cornerstone...)
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Who do I tell in Moscow to go pound sand?

5.56mm

14 posted on 08/07/2015 12:30:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Genoa

Something tells me that had any of the major war players besides the USA had got the bomb first they would not have hesitated to use it.


15 posted on 08/07/2015 12:30:15 PM PDT by shotgun
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3-8 million Ukrainians alone in the Holodomor. Add in the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33 caused by Stalin, and you have well over 10 million there alone.


16 posted on 08/07/2015 12:30:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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Putin knows that if America did not administer the cleansing power of the atom, the Russians would have done so. He’s just butthurt that we beat his ancestors to the punch.


17 posted on 08/07/2015 12:31:00 PM PDT by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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Russia calls for military tribunal on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Damn..Truman is going to have to get an attorney..he could ask what is the definition of atomic bombs..


18 posted on 08/07/2015 12:31:29 PM PDT by BerniesFriend (Sarah Palin-"Lord knows she's attractive" says bitter Andrea Mitchell and the rest of the MSM)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let’s have a tribunal on the Red Army’s behavior in Europe and Asia at the end of WW2.


19 posted on 08/07/2015 12:31:41 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Popman

Why not kick sand in the eyes of the scrawny 90 pound weakling on the beach?


20 posted on 08/07/2015 12:31:48 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not, no explanation is possible)
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