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Mar. 11th, 2010 01:36 pmTHINGS THEY DON'T TEACH US IN OUR HISTORY BOOKS:
The actual anniversary was yesterday.
65 years ago the United States committed a war crime against Japan by firebombing ordinary citizens in Tokyo.
100,000 civilians died by explosion and fire, the largest number from any attack during the entirety of the war.
I wish I could be surprised that war crimes like this were ignored during/after the the hostilities ended, not to mention that as part of an agreement signed by Japan in 1951, nobody in that country could sue over it being a war crime. But I'm not surprised.
100,000 civilians dead, simply for the crime of being citizens in a country at war. Save for the usual warmonger cries of "they should have stopped their government" or "destabilizing a population is part of war," there was little-to-no significant military reasons for the attack.
This article is from five years ago, but it tell you what you NEED to know.
MARCH 10, 1945: The Firebombing of Tokyo
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The actual anniversary was yesterday.
65 years ago the United States committed a war crime against Japan by firebombing ordinary citizens in Tokyo.
100,000 civilians died by explosion and fire, the largest number from any attack during the entirety of the war.
I wish I could be surprised that war crimes like this were ignored during/after the the hostilities ended, not to mention that as part of an agreement signed by Japan in 1951, nobody in that country could sue over it being a war crime. But I'm not surprised.
100,000 civilians dead, simply for the crime of being citizens in a country at war. Save for the usual warmonger cries of "they should have stopped their government" or "destabilizing a population is part of war," there was little-to-no significant military reasons for the attack.
This article is from five years ago, but it tell you what you NEED to know.
MARCH 10, 1945: The Firebombing of Tokyo
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