War Crimes In Japan Occupied Indonesia

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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called. While many romusha disappeared from the record, nine hundred were known victims of a brutal and immoral medical experiment perpetuated by an increasingly desperate Imperial Japan. In anticipation of a land assault, the Japanese needed a means to protect their troops from tetanus, and they used these nine hundred men as human guinea pigs to test an insufficiently vetted vaccine. Within days, all nine hundred suffered the protracted, agonizing death of acute tetanus. With the Allied forces poised for victory, the Japanese needed a scapegoat for this well-documented incident if they were to avoid war-crimes prosecution. They brutally tortured Achmad Mochtar, a native Indonesian and renowned scientist, along with his colleagues at the Eijkman Institute in Batavia (now Jakarta), until Mochtar signed a confession to the murders in exchange for the liberty of his fellow scientists. The Japanese beheaded Mochtar weeks before the war ended. War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia unravels the deceit of the Japanese Army, the reasons for the mass murder of the romusha, and Mochtar’s heroic role in these tragic events. The end result finds justice for Mochtar and reveals the true extent of one of the least recognized war crimes of World War II.

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Genre : History
Author : J. Kevin Baird
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Release : 2015-05-15
File : 325 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781612346458


War Crimes In Japan Occupied Indonesia

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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called. While many romusha disappeared from the record, nine hundred were known victims of a brutal and immoral medical experiment perpetuated by an increasingly desperate Imperial Japan. In anticipation of a land assault, the Japanese needed a means to protect their troops from tetanus, and they used these nine hundred men as human guinea pigs to test an insufficiently vetted vaccine. Within days, all nine hundred suffered the protracted, agonizing death of acute tetanus. With the Allied forces poised for victory, the Japanese needed a scapegoat for this well-documented incident if they were to avoid war-crimes prosecution. They brutally tortured Achmad Mochtar, a native Indonesian and renowned scientist, along with his colleagues at the Eijkman Institute in Batavia (now Jakarta), until Mochtar signed a confession to the murders in exchange for the liberty of his fellow scientists. The Japanese beheaded Mochtar weeks before the war ended. War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia unravels the deceit of the Japanese Army, the reasons for the mass murder of the romusha, and Mochtar’s heroic role in these tragic events. The end result finds justice for Mochtar and reveals the true extent of one of the least recognized war crimes of World War II.

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Genre : History
Author : J. Kevin Baird
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Release : 2015
File : 0 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1612347347


Japanese Morning Press Highlights

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Genre : Japanese newspapers
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Release : 2007
File : 260 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822035822931


Prosecuting War Crimes And Genocide

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Combining history, politics, and critical analysis, he revisits the killing fields of Cambodia, documents the three-month Hutu "machete genocide" of about 800,000 Tutsi villagers in Rwanda, and casts recent headlines from Kosovo in the light of these other conflicts."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre : Law
Author : Howard Ball
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Release : 1999
File : 312 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015048740214


Representing The Japanese Occupation Of Indonesia

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Rather than a history of the war and occupation of Indonesia during the years 1942-1945, Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia offers a survey of the way in which Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands have shaped the memory of that episode. Comparison of the memories in the three countries brings out the national patterns of memory. This volume gives an impression of the layered and pluriform nature of memory, and of the different forms of expression of memory, from the most personal level of oral testimony to the most public representation in monuments and films.

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Genre : History
Author : Remco Raben
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Release : 1999
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015047732337


Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Handbook

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Genre : Indonesia
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Release : 1996
File : 1350 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105011895112


1995 Indonesia Malaysia Singapore Handbook

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Genre : Indonesia
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Release : 1994
File : 1174 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0900751576


The Tokyo War Crimes Trial

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Genre : Japan
Author : Yuma Totani
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Release : 2005
File : 490 Pages
ISBN-13 : UCSD:31822035932508


World Almanac And Book Of Facts 86

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Genre : Almanacs
Author : Hana Umlauf Lane
Publisher : World Almanac Books
Release : 1985-11
File : 927 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0345326598


World Almanac And Book Of Facts 1987

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Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive reference encompasses thousands of facts and trivia about the worlds of geography, world history, the arts, sports, politics, agriculture, and economics

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Genre : Social Science
Author : Hana Umlauf Lane
Publisher : Pharos Books
Release : 1986-12
File : 928 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0345340612