Do you feel what I feel
Mar 23, 2014 5:35:33 GMT -5
Post by douglaslam on Mar 23, 2014 5:35:33 GMT -5
The following are two reports on Japan's attempt to glorify its war machinery which brought untold suffering to China alone, for almost eight years. And Japanese treatment of POWs was particularly well documented.
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-18/kamikaze/5328942
www.economist.com/news/asia/21597946-film-about-kamikaze-pilots-gives-worrying-boost-nationalists-mission-accomplished
Now, the right wing government of Shinzo Abe is behind the push to have the kamikaze pilots' personal effects as World Heritage listing items. What a preposterous, odious proposition which no sane person should entertain. It is offensive to the extreme.
The kamikaze pilots were a part of the most brutal, sadistic and beastly invading force known in history. To honour them is like giving legitimacy to the 9/11 bombers; making heroes out of a spate of suicide bombing perpetrators in many trouble spots. Hitler's SS, Gestapo, concentration camp commandants and guards should be elevated to humanitarian status, no doubt.
While the world sympathises with the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, did Japan ever own up to its atrocities inflicted on other people ? Nanking Massacre in 1937 by the Japanese troops, was a particularly heinous crime against humanity. Only the Japanese could think of a beheading contest of the civilians rounded up for slaughter. Only the Japanese could bayonet heavily pregnant women. Only the Japanese could seize a young child from the mother, toss the child in the air only to fall on the blade of a bayonet. And there were thousands and thousands of people subjected to unspeakable medical experiments in occupied China.
Kamikaze pilots are being romanticised. The were part and parcel of the Japanese killing machine, a ruthless, merciless lot.
The current Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a right-wing individual who exploits nationalism for his political gain. He stirred up border disputes with China, denied his country's enslaving of the so-called comfort women for its troops which hurt and riled Korea deeply. Abe is now stacking the national broadcaster NHK with his appointees to espouse his extremist right wing views. He made a high profile appearance at the Yasukuni Shrine to honour the worst war criminals of World War ll, and managed to enrage China and Korea, which suffered the most under the Japanese.
And now, the kamikaze pilots are going to get world heritage recognition if the Japanese had their own way. I have no problems if the Japanese want to honour them in their own way. To foist that onto us? It is beyond a joke.
Do I sound angry? You bet.
Kamikaze pilots want UN to immortalise letters and photos
www.abc.net.au
Photos and letters from Japan's kamikaze pilots could be...
www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-18/kamikaze/5328942
www.economist.com/news/asia/21597946-film-about-kamikaze-pilots-gives-worrying-boost-nationalists-mission-accomplished
Now, the right wing government of Shinzo Abe is behind the push to have the kamikaze pilots' personal effects as World Heritage listing items. What a preposterous, odious proposition which no sane person should entertain. It is offensive to the extreme.
The kamikaze pilots were a part of the most brutal, sadistic and beastly invading force known in history. To honour them is like giving legitimacy to the 9/11 bombers; making heroes out of a spate of suicide bombing perpetrators in many trouble spots. Hitler's SS, Gestapo, concentration camp commandants and guards should be elevated to humanitarian status, no doubt.
While the world sympathises with the atomic bomb victims in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, did Japan ever own up to its atrocities inflicted on other people ? Nanking Massacre in 1937 by the Japanese troops, was a particularly heinous crime against humanity. Only the Japanese could think of a beheading contest of the civilians rounded up for slaughter. Only the Japanese could bayonet heavily pregnant women. Only the Japanese could seize a young child from the mother, toss the child in the air only to fall on the blade of a bayonet. And there were thousands and thousands of people subjected to unspeakable medical experiments in occupied China.
Kamikaze pilots are being romanticised. The were part and parcel of the Japanese killing machine, a ruthless, merciless lot.
The current Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe is a right-wing individual who exploits nationalism for his political gain. He stirred up border disputes with China, denied his country's enslaving of the so-called comfort women for its troops which hurt and riled Korea deeply. Abe is now stacking the national broadcaster NHK with his appointees to espouse his extremist right wing views. He made a high profile appearance at the Yasukuni Shrine to honour the worst war criminals of World War ll, and managed to enrage China and Korea, which suffered the most under the Japanese.
And now, the kamikaze pilots are going to get world heritage recognition if the Japanese had their own way. I have no problems if the Japanese want to honour them in their own way. To foist that onto us? It is beyond a joke.
Do I sound angry? You bet.
Kamikaze pilots want UN to immortalise letters and photos
www.abc.net.au
Photos and letters from Japan's kamikaze pilots could be...