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A previous documentart on British TV showed sequences
of GI's leading Japanese children past furious
officers and field guns loaded with phosphorous shell
on Saipan and Tinian, where most of the civilian
settler population were wiped out. Many had hidden in
caves and phosporous shell was to be fired into the
cave mouths, the gun crews refusing to fire.
The "official history" states that for inexplicable
rerasons the civilian poulation committed suicide by
jumping over cliffs.
> >
> > And yet... And yet!... they have the gall to strut
> > around
> > the world as if they
> > owned it - laying down the law and lecturing
> > everyone else
> > about "humanitarian"
> > principles. Even stirring up trouble, engineering
> > wars,
> > bombing and/or depriving
> > others of life-preserving essentials most
> Americans
> > couldn't
> > endure a single day
> > without themselves, just to drive the point
> home...!
> >
> > Washington's is not a New World Order - certainly
> > it's no
> > model for the future...
> > In principle it's as old as the hills and very,
> very
> > primitive.
> >
> > Essentially, modern technological methods of
> > inflicting pain
> > and making money...
> > are all that distinguish present-day tyrants like
> > Clinton,
> > Bush and Bliar from cruel
> > excesses ancient Assyria's Sargon and Sennacherib
> > employed -
> > toward the same ends !
> >
> > John Jay
> >
> > ----------
> > From: "Pedja Zoric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] We don't know if there
> > were women
> > and children, we just blew them up
> > Date: Mon, Jun 4, 2001, 6:45 pm
> >
> >
> >
> > 'We just blew it all up. We don't know if there
> were
> > women
> > and children or
> > whatever, we just blew them up,'
> >
> > 'The truth is that war is an occasion when
> god-awful
> > things
> > happen,'
> >
> > [The ultimate war crime is to start the war.]
> >
> > Pedja Zoric
> >
> >
> >
>
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,500631,
> > 00.html
> >
> >
> > Film exposes Allies' Pacific war atrocities
> >
> > Horrific footage shot during battle with Japanese
> > shows
> > execution of wounded
> > and bayoneting of corpses.
> >
> > Jason Burke
> > Sunday June 3, 2001
> > The Observer
> >
> > For more than half a century they have been
> > portrayed as
> > wholesome heroes who
> > fought in terrible conditions to save the Western
> > way of
> > life from Japanese
> > aggression. But now the savage acts that Allied
> > soldiers
> > were driven to
> > commit in the Pacific theatre are about to be
> > exposed.
> > Researchers for a TV series to be broadcast on
> > Channel 4
> > this month have
> > unearthed disturbing and previously unseen footage
> > from the
> > Second World War
> > which had languished forgotten in archives for 57
> > years.The
> > images are so
> > horrific senior television executives had to be
> > consulted
> > before they were
> > considered fit for broadcast.
> >
> > The film, shot in colour, was taken by an unknown
> > combat
> > cameraman in 1944
> > during fighting on the Pacific Island of Peleliu.
> It
> > includes scenes of
> > American soldiers shooting Japanese wounded as
> they
> > lie
> > prone on the ground.
> >
> > In another scene on the Japanese island of Okinawa
> a
> > year
> > later, a US soldier
> > is filmed dragging a wounded enemy from a hiding
> > place.
> > Although the man has
> > his ankles tied together, two bullets are fired
> into
> > his
> > knees and then,
> > while he is still moving, shots are fired into his
> > chest and
> > head.
> >
> > Other footage from Hell in the Pacific shows
> > American
> > soldiers using bayonets
> > to hack at Japanese corpses while looting them.
> > Former
> > servicemen interviewed
> > by researchers spoke of the widespread practice of
> > looting
> > gold teeth from
> > the dead - and sometimes from the living.
> >
> > Others spoke of units throwing away their bayonets
> > to avoid
> > being ordered by
> > 'over-enthusiastic' officers to charge, and of
> > machine-gunning villages full
> > of civilians and clubbing wounded Japanese
> soldiers
> > to death
> > as they tried to
> > surrender.
> >
> > In an incident related by a former marine,
> soldiers
> > killed a
> > shell-shocked
> > comrade with a shovel for fear his screaming would
> > give away
> > their position.
> >
> > The revelations will shock many accustomed to the
> > heroic
> > image of American
> > soldiers, particularly given the romantic myth
> > boosted by
> > blockbuster films
> > such as Pearl Harbor, which goes on general
> release
> > this
> > weekend.
> >
> > Many cherished British military myths are
> > overturned.
> > Researchers found -
> > contrary to the image of solidarity projected by
> > films such
>
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