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To: Pokey78

"The 30-day battle for Manila had begun.

The devastation that followed was not on the scale of the Rape of Nanking in China. But at least 50,000 Filipinos died, many in acts of deliberate atrocity by the Japanese.

Of the 20 million people living in the Philippines at the start of the war, an estimated 1 million were killed during the Japanese occupation. "

http://www.iht.com/articles/1995/02/03/edwarn.php


31 posted on 05/27/2006 7:39:18 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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To: atomicpossum
Of the 20 million people living in the Philippines at the start of the war, an estimated 1 million were killed during the Japanese occupation.

We killed 1.2 million Philipinnes after the Spanish-American War.

153 posted on 05/28/2006 1:10:06 AM PDT by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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