Unit 731
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Disease Prevention and Water Supply Unit 731 was a Japanese biological warfare team, that experimented on Chinese civilians during World War 2. The unit performed vivisections without anesthetic and conducted experiments in the field of biological warfare on their unfortunate victims. After the war ended they were given immunity by the United States in return for their data.[1] An estimated 3,000 prisoners of war were killed during the experiments which left no prisoner alive. [2]
“”From then on, a curtain of secrecy was lowered. Unit 731 was not part of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal. One reference to "poisonous serums" being used on the Chinese was allowed to slip by for lack of evidence.
Lawyers for the International Prosecution Section gathered evidence which was sent directly to President Truman. No more was heard of it. The Americans took the view that all this valuable research data could end up in the hands of the Soviets if they did not act fast. This was, after all, the kind of information that no other nation would have had the ruthlessness to collect. |
| —Daily mail |
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Gold, Hal. Unit 731 Testimony, Charles E Tuttle Co., 1996. ISBN 4-900737-39-9.
- ↑ http://www.unit731.org/Experiments.html