Subhajit Makhal: Whenever the word ‘World War II’ comes into our mind the primary images that clicks in our minds are nuclear bombs, blood bath across Europe and Asia. In the Western part of the world as Nazi Germans beside engaging in war against Allied forces, they were also engaged in ethnic cleansing of the Jews where Jews were tortured and medical experiments were done on humans.
But there was another nation in eastern part of the world which surpassed Nazis in inhumae brutality. The nation was Imperial Japan . Japanese imperial soldiers were engaged in death games in a unit called Unit 731. Unit 731 was Japanese Army’s secret biological and chemical experimental unit whose primary target was to engage in deadly experiments on humans and create biological weapons. Unit 731 was created in 1939. According to Geneva Convention held in 1925 the manafacture of biological weapons and its use was totally forbidden. Despite these restrictions Japan established Unit 731. During World War ll after Japan conquered Manchuria in mainland China. There was a motive behind establishment of Unit 731 in China and not in Japan because Manchuria was isolated from Japanese island . Hence the Japanese soldiers can easily take Chinese people and perform deadly experiments on them. There were 300 members in Unit 731 out of which there were doctors and researchers. The head of Unit 731 was Lieutenant General Shiro Ishii a medical Army officer of Japanese Army.
The Japanese viewed the Chinese people as inferior lab objects and also inferior race. They believed that by performing these inhumane experiments on people they would lead Japan in world as biological weapons expert. Not only Chinese but Australians, Europeans, Koreans even Indians nationals were used as experimental objects. In Unit 731 Japanese doctors performed Vivisection upon a person without giving any anesthesia. Thousands of men, women, children even pregnant women upon whom forcefully vivisection were performed. Thousands of thousands people died during this. In some cases people were tied and dangerous virus or bacteria were injected into their body and then body parts were cut one by one to see how much the infection had spread inside. Often people were tied to a bed and one by leg and arms would be cut off to study how much blood loss occurs. Not a single people were given anesthesia.There were reports that a man was tied and his stomach was cut off then his esophagus(food pipe) were tied to his intestines just to see if a person can live normally without certain organs. Brain, liver and lungs were removed from a person who was alive and was in complete in his/her sense.
According to reports more than 4,00,000 people died during these experiments. These horrific tortures were conducted in medical section. There was a separate section where soldiers shot the prisoners or the people , threw grenades at them. During the August of 1945 , when Soviet Army were advancing towards Manchuria the members of Unit 731 killed the rest of people with firearms and gas chamber. The Japanese Army officers gave the Japanese guards Pottasium Cyanide in case they get caught by the Soviets or Americans. The officers strictly instructed them not to reveal their identity. When the Americans arrived into Manchuria they were stunned to see what demonic works had been done in Unit 731.The Americans cleverly hatched a plan and made a deal.They captured the Japanese officers and asked them to give each and every medical results and reports done in Unit 731 in return the Americans will cover up the whole issue and not expose it to the world. The Americans planned to use this advanced medical results and reports to advance it’s own biological warfare. The Japanese did what Americans asked them to do. But the Soviets took few Japanese doctors of Unit 731 to Russia where they held a trial, convicted them of war crime and prepared a report upon interrogating the Japanese. The Americans despite knowing the truth declared the report as Soviet propaganda. In case of Nazi Germans many people survived to tell the story but in this case of Unit 731 not a single person was alive to tell the story. Through dark politics the people who suffered terrible death never received proper trial and judgement.
২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এ সবার আগে পড়ুন ব্রেকিং নিউজ। থাকছে দৈনিক টাটকা খবর, খবরের লাইভ আপডেট। সবচেয়ে ভরসাযোগ্য বাংলা এবং ইংলিশ খবর পড়ুন ২৪X৭ নিউজ বেঙ্গল এর ওয়েবসাইটে। নিয়মিত খবরে থাকতে লাইক করুন ফেসবুকে ও ফলো করুন টুইটারে।
‘রঙ’ ছাড়া সংবাদ খুঁজে পাওয়া কঠিন। কোন খবরটা ‘খাচ্ছে’? সেটাই কি শেষ কথা? নাকি আসল সত্যিটার নাম ‘সংবাদ’! ‘ব্রেকিং’ আর প্রাইম টাইমের পিছনে দৌড়তে গিয়ে দেওয়ালে পিঠ ঠেকেছে সত্যিকারের সাংবাদিকতার। অর্থ আর চোখ রাঙানিতে হাত বাঁধা সাংবাদিকদের। কিন্তু, গণতন্ত্রের চতুর্থ স্তম্ভে ‘রঙ’ লাগানোয় বিশ্বাসী নই আমরা। আর মৃত্যুশয্যা থেকে ফিরিয়ে আনতে পারেন আপনারাই। সোশ্যালের ওয়াল জুড়ে বিনামূল্যে পাওয়া খবরে ‘ফেক’ তকমা জুড়ে যাচ্ছে না তো? আসলে পৃথিবীতে কোনও কিছুই ‘ফ্রি’ নয়। তাই, আপনার দেওয়া একটি টাকাও অক্সিজেন জোগাতে পারে। স্বতন্ত্র সাংবাদিকতার স্বার্থে আপনার স্বল্প অনুদানও মূল্যবান। পাশে থাকুন।
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