Forced Labour: Geneva 3rd convention concerning POWs
Unit 731: Geneva 3rd convention concerning POWs
Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese army used for lethal human experiments used from 1939-1945 located in Pingping.
The subjects were mostly Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian POWs (Kristof). Between 3,000 and 250,000 died as subjects of experiments (Kristof).
The experiments included vivisection without anesthesia after infecting subjects with diseases like typhus and cholera (Kristof) locking up to diseased prisoners with healthy ones to see how fast the disease would spread locking others inside pressure chambers to test the level of pressure needed to pop the eyes from the socket (Kristof).
Prisoners would often be dissected for practice rather than …show more content…
Chiang Kai-shek shortage is illustrated by the fact that in 1941 there were only 800 artillery pieces in the entire Chinese Army. (“Chinese Nationalist Army”)
Rape of Nanking: The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.
Rape of Nanking (December 1937)
Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, fell to Japan’s military on December 13, 1937 (Chang, 4).
Commander Asaka Yasuhiko ordered the Japanese soldiers “to kill all captives” in a duration of a month long program (Lynch, 22).
“300,000 Chinese people were slaughtered through methods
Unit 731: Geneva 3rd convention concerning POWs
Unit 731 was a unit of the Japanese army used for lethal human experiments used from 1939-1945 located in Pingping.
The subjects were mostly Chinese, Korean, and Mongolian POWs (Kristof). Between 3,000 and 250,000 died as subjects of experiments (Kristof).
The experiments included vivisection without anesthesia after infecting subjects with diseases like typhus and cholera (Kristof) locking up to diseased prisoners with healthy ones to see how fast the disease would spread locking others inside pressure chambers to test the level of pressure needed to pop the eyes from the socket (Kristof).
Prisoners would often be dissected for practice rather than …show more content…
Chiang Kai-shek shortage is illustrated by the fact that in 1941 there were only 800 artillery pieces in the entire Chinese Army. (“Chinese Nationalist Army”)
Rape of Nanking: The weapons used in war must discriminate between combatants and non-combatants. Civilians are never permissible targets of war, and every effort must be taken to avoid killing civilians. The deaths of civilians are justified only if they are unavoidable victims of a deliberate attack on a military target.
Rape of Nanking (December 1937)
Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, fell to Japan’s military on December 13, 1937 (Chang, 4).
Commander Asaka Yasuhiko ordered the Japanese soldiers “to kill all captives” in a duration of a month long program (Lynch, 22).
“300,000 Chinese people were slaughtered through methods