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American mutilation of Japanese war dead Brutality is common place in a war of attrition. The miX of Japanese war crimes and the extreme hatred of the Japanese in America led to things like this as a coping measure for soldiers. The pacific war is so incredibly fucked and not nearly enough people know about it and the wide range of atrocities that happened in it. People always talk about the horrible cost of human life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki but know nothing about the Tokyo firebombings or the millions of murdered Chinese civilians. During World War II, some members of the United States military mutilated dead Japanese service personnel in the Pacific theater. The mutilation of Japanese service personnel included the taking of body parts as "war souvenirs" and "war trophies". Teeth and skulls were the most commonly taken "trophies", although other body parts were also collected. The phenomenon of "trophy-taking" was widespread enough that disc...

12 Jaw-Droppingly Evil Torture Devices Used Throughout History 1 OF 26 CRIME & PUNISHMENT NEXT LIST WARNING: DISTURBING DESCRIPTIONS BELOW Humans are  incredibly creative  when it comes to torture and humiliation, as surviving artifacts of ancient cruelty attest. One of the most illustrious and creative civilizations of all time, the Greeks, produced one of the most famous ancient torture devices, the  brazen bull . The Egyptians were similarly adept at brutal ancient torture, and the Romans used pain during interrogation in extremely effective ways.  During  medieval times,  a wide range of people, from common criminals to the mentally ill, from those accused of witchcraft to political adversaries, were tortured to death, in many cases unfairly. The bloody, shameful legacy of that dark period is revealed in the following list of surviving artifacts of cruelty displayed in  various museums  aro...

Commonwealth soldiers in a British military base pose with the severed head of an MNLA guerrilla killed during Malayan Emergency, 1951. This photograph was first published on the 28 April 1952 by the British communist newspaper the Daily Worker (Morning Star), causing a political scandal throughout the British government, exposing the widespread practice of Iban headhunters fighting for the British decapitating the corpses of anti-colonial guerrillas. On 28 April 1952 a photograph of a British soldier exhibiting the head of an alleged communist insurgent was published on the front page of the  Daily Worker   newspaper under the heading ‘THIS IS THE WAR IN MALAYA’. At the time of publication, four years had passed since Britain’s decision to declare an official state of ‘Emergency’ in Malaya – then a group of colonial protectorate states in South-East Asia, which later became the states of Malaysia and Singapore. British efforts to suppress an independence struggle led by the c...

19-year old Norwegian high school girl strips naked in front of the school in bid to become student president Context: "Antics by Norway's 'russ', reveling high-school students who celebrate impending final exams with often unbridled debauchery, have caused a new controversy after a stripping stunt was filmed and publicized via the Internet. The traditional jumpsuit of the red russ, even more provocative when removed. A 19-year-old girl promoted her campaign to be the local russ president by stripping naked at a student assembly at Atlanten High School in Kristiansund two weeks ago. This received a new wave of publicity when someone posted a video of the performance online and Norwegian news site TV 2 Nettavisen made the controversial decision to provide a link to the video on their site.  TV 2 Nettavisen's editor Gunnar Stavrum backed the decision to point readers to the video. "The story has already been made public. The performance took place in public. The...

Fidel Castro slept with 35,000 women and smoked his first cigar aged 14 According to an Ex-Castro official, Fidel Castro slept with over 35000 women a day for than four decades. One for lunch and one for supper, sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast  The dictator had a rapacious sexual appetite, according to a former Castro insider. The New York Post reported that Castro had sex with at least two women a day; at lunch, dinner and sometimes at breakfast. His guards would prowl the beaches of Havana to recruit women. A Vanity Fair reporter in 2008 revealed that he loved to flirt and littered his speech with crude sexual innuendos. When asked how many children he had, he said, laughing, "Well, I don't have a tribe. Not that much, fewer than a dozen." Fidel Castro smoked his first cigar aged 14 “It was my own father who gave me my first cigar, back in Birán. I must have been 14 or 15… I smoked that first puro, and I didn’t know how it was done. Fortunately, I didn’t inh...