State Duma chief suggests trying US for WWII nuke attacks

[atatwolf]

Published time: December 26, 2014 11:59
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Hiroshima after the US atomic bombing. WWII (1938-1945).(RIA Novosti)

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The Russian Lower House speaker wants to instigate an international investigation into the 1945 nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US military – a possible crime against humanity with no statute of limitation.

“Next year we will have the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trial and also the same anniversary of the first and only nuclear bombings of two civilian cities – Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It is not incidental that I mention these events together. I think we should discuss this topic together with lawyers and specialists in international law – for crimes against humanity have no statute of limitation,” Sergey Naryshkin told the presidium of the Russian History Society.

The Russian parliamentary chief recalled that the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hardly justifiable from the pure military position, as the defeat of Japan was practically decided after the Soviet Army’s victories in Manchuria.

“The nuclear bombing of two peaceful cities was a pure act of intimidation resulting in the deaths of several thousand Japanese civilians. Let us get back to this issue within the next year,” Naryshkin said.

Russian State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin.(RIA Novosti / Mihail Mokrushin)

The nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki took place in early August, 1945, and resulted in the deaths of between 150,000 and 250,000 people, most of them civilians. The US authorities said the demonstration of force sped up Japan’s capitulation and prevented a land operation on the island that could have inflicted heavy casualties to the US military. At the same time, the two attacks, especially the Hiroshima bombing, have been repeatedly denounced by the international rights community as fundamentally immoral and violating the spirit of conventions that banned the use of weapons of mass destruction against the enemy’s civilian population.

Japanese officials and international rights activists raise the issue of the bombings to this day, noting that the radioactive fallout damaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s children, causing various illnesses in some, and costly medical checks and constant fears for the health of the rest.

 

[jhungary]

nothing i can say except

LOL.......

 

[C130]

yawn, this is still being debated?? was it wrong to nuke two imperial Japan cities??

meanwhile we firebombed dozens if not hundreds of Japanese cities causing more and loss of life than Hiroshima/Nagasaki

we could of not nuked Japan and extended the war in the Pacific well into 1946 or longer
or
we could of went with the plan to starve Imperial Japan??
or Operation Overlord that no doubt would of cost Japan millions of lives and the U.S atleast a 100,000 more G.I deaths.

Russia is trying too hard especially given there track record

send them to the gulags in Siberia or the purges.

 

[SipahSalar]

LOL.......

What's funny? The Axis forces faced warcrimes trials for killing civilians, so why shouldn't the allied forces? Oh, is it because they are the good guys?

 

[jhungary]

What's funny? The Axis forces faced warcrimes trials for killing civilians, so why shouldn't the allied forces? Oh, is it because they are the good guys?

i laughed not because of warcrime or whatever US and allied did or did not do in WW2. I laught because if that guy have any sense at all, he wouls have go after fire bombing of tokyo and rest of japan. It was on the lowest estimate that the fire bombing have kill 500,000 in the lower limits.

He want to rand about something yet he rant about thw wrong thing. By the way he claim Japan woukd have surrendered once Russian conquered manchuia yet the bombing predate the russian invasion of Manchuria. (6 Aug 1945 Hiroshima and 9 Aug 1945 for Nagasaki with the Russian invasion also on 9th) So how can you claim Liberation of manchuria would make the Japanes3 surrender and hence the bombing is obsolete? when both bombing predate the invasion?

This is what i am laughing about.

yawn, this is still being debated?? was it wrong to nuke two imperial Japan cities??

meanwhile we firebombed dozens if not hundreds of Japanese cities causing more and loss of life than Hiroshima/Nagasaki

we could of not nuked Japan and extended the war in the Pacific well into 1946 or longer
or
we could of went with the plan to starve Imperial Japan??
or Operation Overlord that no doubt would of cost Japan millions of lives and the U.S atleast a 100,000 more G.I deaths.

Russia is trying too hard especially given there track record

send them to the gulags in Siberia or the purges.

maybe they are on a quota or they too will be send to siberia gulag if they did not made enough outragous claim...

 

[mike2000]

yawn, this is still being debated?? was it wrong to nuke two imperial Japan cities??

meanwhile we firebombed dozens if not hundreds of Japanese cities causing more and lost of life than Hiroshima/Nagasaki

we could of not nuked Japan and extended the war in the Pacific well into 1946 or longer
or
we could of went with the plan to starve Imperial Japan??
or Operation Overlord that no doubt would of cost Japan millions of lives and the U.S atleast a 100,000 more G.I deaths.

Russia is trying too hard especially given there track record

send them to the gulags in Siberia or the purges.

I agree completely. As I said, don't take Moscow seriously again, our sanctions is really making them paranoid, what I'm hearing coming out from them lately is rather funny/laughable. Sometimes I feel bad/sorry for them to be honest . we should loosen the sanctions a little bit to give them some air. Because at this rate they will not only call our allies Japan ( who hasn't talked anything about taking the u.s to court because of the nuclear bomb. Lol) to prosecute the U.S over something that doesn't concerns them, but also Vietnam to prosecute the U.S about the Vietnam war. Desperate times for Moscow I must say.

 

[atatwolf]

yawn, this is still being debated?? was it wrong to nuke two imperial Japan cities??

meanwhile we firebombed dozens if not hundreds of Japanese cities causing more and loss of life than Hiroshima/Nagasaki

we could of not nuked Japan and extended the war in the Pacific well into 1946 or longer
or
we could of went with the plan to starve Imperial Japan??
or Operation Overlord that no doubt would of cost Japan millions of lives and the U.S atleast a 100,000 more G.I deaths.

Russia is trying too hard especially given there track record

send them to the gulags in Siberia or the purges.

There is something called rule of war idiot.

 

[mike2000]

There is something called rule of war idiot.

Lool don't call people idiot bro. Nobody made personal attacks on here, so why you just come out of nowhere to start insulting someone for no good reason?lool

Moreover as you might already be aware, I'm a Nippon admirer as well. But bro since when have u become a Japanese die hard fan yo the point of being anti U.S? Thats rather new, Im yet to see a member as puzzling as you on here Bros.

 

[C130]

There is something called rule of war idiot.

rule of war??? hmm, like that surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was rule of war or Unit 731??? come on I don't wanna sugarcoat it, but wars are hell buddy.

they'd been like hell since the dawn of man and they will continue to be hell well into the future.


let's just be thankful nukes have only been used twice and no more.

 

[atatwolf]

rule of war??? hmm, like that surprise attack on Pearl Harbor was rule of war or Unit 731??? come on I don't wanna sugarcoat it, but wars are hell buddy.

they'd been like hell since the dawn of man and they will continue to be hell well into the future.


let's just be thankful nukes have only been used twice and no more.

Typical American. Suprise attack on MlLITARY targets is not the same as throwing nukes on an industrial cities to wipe out thousands of civilian lives including women and children. You only threw a nuke on them because you knew they didn't have nukes to throw on new York city as retaliation.

 

[C130]

Typical American. Suprise attack on MlLITARY targets is not the same as throwing nukes on an industrial cities to wipe out thousands of civilian lives including women and children. You only threw a nuke on them because you knew they didn't have nukes to throw on new York city as retaliation.

that's pretty easy to say if you didn't have the nuke first.

i wonder what Imperial Japan would of did if they had the nuke??? Nazi Germany, the USSR??? just be glad it was the U.S fucking A that got the bomb first.

I do feel bad for the innocents that got killed/maimed, but it had to be done.

just look at how fanatical the Japanese fught on Okinawa and now scale that up by 1,000 if you had to invade the Japanese homeland.

but for real Russia has no right lol.

they basically raped and pillaged Germany. while the U.S helped/paid for the rebuilding of Japan and Western Europe while Russia erected a Iron Curtain.

 

[atatwolf]

that's pretty easy to say if you didn't have the nuke first.

i wonder what Imperial Japan would of did if they had the nuke??? Nazi Germany, the USSR??? just be glad it was the U.S fucking A that got the bomb first.

I do feel bad for the innocents that got killed/maimed, but it had to be done.

just look at how fanatical the Japanese fught on Okinawa and now scale that up by 1,000 if you had to invade the Japanese homeland.

but for real Russia has no right lol.

they basically raped and pillaged Germany. while the U.S helped/paid for the rebuilding of Japan and Western Europe while Russia erected a Iron Curtain.

I see that but it is still a war crime and it should be recognized as that.

 

[mike2000]

that's pretty easy to say if you didn't have the nuke first.

i wonder what Imperial Japan would of did if they had the nuke??? Nazi Germany, the USSR??? just be glad it was the U.S fucking A that got the bomb first.

I do feel bad for the innocents that got killed/maimed, but it had to be done.

just look at how fanatical the Japanese fught on Okinawa and now scale that up by 1,000 if you had to invade the Japanese homeland.

but for real Russia has no right lol.

they basically raped and pillaged Germany. while the U.S helped/paid for the rebuilding of Japan and Western Europe while Russia erected a Iron Curtain.

Not just that bro. II don't know if he's indeed joking or being serious. Does he even know the amount of crimes Japan committed during world war II? Lol in fact, I didn't want to say this, but he leaves me no choice, Japan was indeed the most brutal power during world war II. They made the Nazis look like saints. Does he even know about unit 731 ? Japan's policy of sexual slavery in China, south Korea and Asia? Bayonnette of babies/civilians/pregnant women? Etc? Was all these also 'rule if wars'?

He should ask Chinese, Koreans, Vietnamese, Filipinos members and other asian countries who suffered under imperial japan occupation on here if Japan was a saint as he tries to paint them. In fact Japan even had it easy, had the U.S notnot used nuclear bomb to end this folly quickly (and mind you its Japan who started the war in Asia with their brutal occupation of Korea and later invasion of coastal China and almost all of Asia) Japan would have suffered even more, and the whole country would have been decimated/destroyed and starved to death by the millions, that's if the U.S had to invade mainland Japan inch by inch. So he should be thankful the atomic bomb put and end to this quickly.

@Nihonjin1051 , please talk some sense to this guy, before he makes us expose all Japans dry laundry about world war II on here.

 

[terranMarine]

Rule of Law?

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[mike2000]

Rule of Law?

Hamidian massacres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Armenian Genocide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

What's this one about? Lol