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Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951. During the late Meiji Era, Japan tried to put on a facade as a 'civilized imperial power of sorts. It was noted that they treated Russian prisoners exceptionally well in 1905. But by all accounts, their treatment of Chinese and Korean prisoners and civilians during the Sino Japanese War of 1895 were nothing short of barbaric. In fairness, that's not at al inconsistent with the other "civilised imperial powers" of the time. In generalthey tended to extend much better treatment towards one another in war than they did to unruly colonial subjects. During apartheid in South Africa, the Japanese were officially considered white while Chinese were considered black. Japan is roughly the size of Montana with virtually no natural resources. Their strength was their people and their fanatical devotion to their country. Japan never had the potential fo...

A US soldier offers his hand to a woman leaving a cave where she had hidden with her child, Saipan; ca. 1944. She isn’t only scared by the war, but also by the Japanese propaganda. The Japanese told everyone that Americans would rape and murder them if captured. According to the PBS Nova documentary, the Japanese government told the citizens that in order to become a United States Marine, you had to murder your parents. American loudspeaker units and American marines offered food and safe passage. But many of the civilians were not interested or were too frightened to listen. Some waded into the sea, some used knives, some borrowed grenades from Japanese soldiers… Most though seem to have used a nearby suicide cliff, where whole families walked off into eternity. More Information: According to Wikipeida, 22,000 or the 25,000 civilian inhabitants of Saipan committed suicide at the request of the emperor: Emperor Hirohito personally found the threat of defection of Japanese civilians dis...

John Barrow saw Japanese women at Saipan throw babies off cliff then jump themselves by  DON MOORE John Henry Barrow II of Royal Palm Retirement Centre in Port Charlotte, Fla. served aboard a destroyer and a sub chaser in the Pacific during World War II. He took part in some of the major battles—Saipan, Iwo Jima and Okinawa to name three. Saipan is the one the 90-year-old former local sailor remembers best. “At Saipan Adm. Nimitz ordered our sub chasers close to shore. We were to fire at Japanese position and when they fired back at us it was our job to report their locations,” Barrow said. “Then we’d knock out the enemy with the 16-inch guns from our battleships off shore. “We could see the shells from our big guns coming right over us and hit the enemy’s positions. We could watch the whole side of a hill come apart when one of our 16-inch shells hit it. “Being that close to shore we could see those Japanese civilian ladies throw their children off the nearby cliffs and then jump ...

This is Roza Shanina.She was one of the female Soviet Snipers who killed Nazis during World War II. She killed 59 Germans before she herself was killed in East Prussia on January 28th, 1945. By that point, Nazi Germany had already lost the war - her death and the deaths and suffering of countless other people on both sides were the result of the inability of Hitler and his minions to face reality. She killed soldiers of the German Wehrmacht. And subsequently died by their hand. We can take some solace knowing those Wehrmacht soldiers probably themselves died with a dumb look on their face as the Red Army poured into Germany. She injured the soldier and then medics, trying to help them. She shot the medic. She ignored the Genfer agreement at all. To roam the path is to become one with it. We exist as superpositions of possibilities. We heal, we believe, we are reborn. It can be difficult to know where to begin. Visitor, look within and recreate yourself. How should you navigate this int...

Female Kurdish fighter from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (ygs Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, PKK) captured by Turkish Army soldiers. Gassed and poisoned by Saddam. Shot and blown up by Turks. Betrayed by America. Kurds remain a rock of stability in a sea of violence and mistrust. A brave and stubborn people, wanting a home to call their OWn. I support Kurdish independence and freedom. Very hard to say any administration has done well in this region of the world. I agree, it was tragic when the Obama administration set a hard and fast withdrawal date from Irag. Resulted in part to the rise of ISIL. But compared to uncle Joe, the guy seems like Churchill. There are different Kurdish groups, though all want their own nation carved out of other countries, so that is going to be a violent struggle for the ages. Not really that easy to pick good guy over bad guy here. But the Kurds were one of the fevw to effectively fight ISIL. The Turks, well, the Ottomans didn't seem to have an issue...