Posted on 07/03/2021 8:48:52 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1945, Japanese forces occupying Indonesia cut off Dr. Achmad Mochtar’s head for a medical experiment gone horribly awry.
Officially, Dr. Mochtar had been responsible for a supposed vaccine whose administration killed hundreds of Indonesian forced laborers.
Latter-day research, however, indicates that it was the Japanese military who administered the vaccine (Indonesian link), an experimental tetanus-cholera-typhoid-dysentery combination shot, getting a trial run before it was administered to Japan’s own soldiers. When this drug proved lethal to most of its recipients, Mochtar and his staff at the Eijkman Institute were arrested in 1944 and subjected to harrowing torture.
According to Jakarta-based British researcher Kevin Baird, Mochtar agreed to take the fall for the experiment in exchange for the release of his colleagues....
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
Regrettably, nothing is mentioned about post-war adjudication of the Japanese involved in this atrocity.
Also on this date (1941), 3,500 Jewish men were executed by the invading Germans (Operation Barbarossa) in the Soviet-occupied half of Poland at the Khotyn Castle, Zloczow, Poland. Part of the ‘Final Solution’ planning, the Einsatzgruppe SS units accompanied 2nd wave troops for the explicit purpose of killing all Jews within their individual areas of operations. By fall of 1941, it became obvious to the Germans that these tactics were problematical and were soon switched to a general roundup and transporting to the various kill areas.
A good point...
Japanese scientists did some terrible experiments, on humans, in Manchuria during the World War 2...After the war, US did not prosecute most of them because they handed over the data to Americans...
Without a single doubt, too many of the Japanese War Criminals escaped justice after the War. However to me, the more over-riding reasons had more to do with the contemporary geopolitical situation. Manchuria was quickly occupied by the Soviet Union and then handed over to Mao's forces. Getting on-site inspections was not on the table. Add to that the very real danger from the Japanese Communist Party grabbing these issues as unfair prosecutions while the American Occupation (MacArthur) was trying to disarm Japan. Not saying you are wrong but just pulling in another justification for this injustice!
... Japanese War Criminals escaped justice after the War.
They WILL face justice, if not in this life, then in the next.
Eijkman Institute?
That is a creepy coincidence.
*cough* Fauci *cough* is not so noble.
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