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About the Camp:
The Unit 731 functioned as an experimental labour for military medical research during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War 2 in Manchuria, China. The aim was to research the perfect biological weapon with the capibility to kill thousands of people.
Numbers tortured and killed:
3000 to 200000 (Estimation) Chinese, Korean, Mongolians, Allied civilians and prisoners of war were killed in the Japanese experiments.
The Other Units:
Unit 516 -Qiqihar, Unit 543-Hailar, Unit 773-Songo unit, Unit 100-Changchun, Unit 1644-Nanjing, Unit 1855-Beijing, Unit 8604-Guangzhou, Unit 200-Manchuria, Unit 9420-Singapore.
People of Unit 731:
The head of Unit 731 was Shiro Ishii (Lieutenant-General), other members: Lieutenant Colonel Ryoichi Naito, Dr. Masaji Kitano, Yoshio Shinozuka. The scientists that were involved in these crimes were given amnesty by the USA in exchange for the experimental data.
Brutalities:
Among the prisoners were women and children. They were used to test the effects of grenades from different positions. Pregnant victims had their babies removed without anesthetics. Smomachs, limbs were removed, and blood loss has been studied. Parts of brain, lungs, liver were cut off. |
