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Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII

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Japanese soldiers take aim at Indian PoWs.

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Indian Army PoWs made live targets for new Japanese infantry recruits


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An emaciated Indian PoW from Hong Kong onboard the medical ship Oxfordshire (Getty Images)


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Jemadar Abdul Latif of 4/9 Jat Regiment who was among the first to allege that the Japanese killed Indians and fed on them

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Soldiers who didn't die in the firing being bayoneted to death

If you want to read more..Please refer below link...

Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII - The Times of India
 
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unfortunate as it may seem- they sacrificed their lives for nothing- a waste
 
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NEW DELHI: On April 2, 1946, the Reuters correspondent in Melbourne, Australia, cabled a short message, which was carried by all newspapers a day later, including The Times of India. It read: “The Japanese Lieutenant Hisata Tomiyasu found guilty of the murder of 14 Indian soldiers and of cannibalism at Wewak (New Guinea) in 1944 has been sentenced to death by hanging, it is learned from Rabaul.”

The nationalist narrative has long projected the Second World War as a clash between the patriots of the Indian National Army (INA), supported by the Japanese Empire, and the evil British Empire. The soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for the British are immediately dismissed as stooges of the Raj. But the refusal of many who were taken prisoner to renege on their oaths of loyalty in the face of extreme torture also showed remarkable bravery.

After the fall of Singapore on February 15, 1942, 40,000 men of the Indian Army became prisoners of war (PoWs). Some 30,000 of them joined the INA. But those who refused were destined for torture in the Japanese concentration camps. They were first sent to transit camps in Batavia (now Djakarta) and Surabaya from where they were packed off to New Guinea, New Britain, and Bougainvillea.

At the camps, they made no distinction between Indian officers and men. Officers would be slapped across the face or beaten up with sticks for the slightest error made by their men —error in this case being a tired soldier taking a moment’s rest while on double fatigue duty, or a sick soldier failing to salute a Japanese officer. Very often, work parties of haggard men would be taken away from the camps to the shooting range where they would be used as live targets for new Japanese infantry recruits to improve their marksmanship. Soldiers who were not killed in the firing but wounded were bayoneted to death.

Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII - The Times of India

Hmm..:bad:.
 
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Well war turns humans into monsters. Kinda reminds me of the incident that happened in Chichi-jima.
 
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According to Australian historian Professor Peter Stanley, the Indian officers gave a written petition in English to Takano in July, 1943. The Japanese colonel was so angry to see it that he paraded all of them before him and told them that they had no rights as they had surrendered unconditionally. He also called them "traitors of Asia and India".
He was right.
 
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These pictures are sickening yet the levity of the posts here is just bad taste. These pictures convey just the needle tip of the tip of a massive iceberg. Millions died in the most cruel manner, whether Indian, Chinese or Phillipinos.

Dont joke around here please.
 
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