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To: ALL

From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci
(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: Japanese Veterans Give Chilling Account of Atrocities

Date: October 04, 1998

Over fifty years have passed, and many of the men have passed, but the horrors committed during those black years will never pass from memory.

The continued vetting of information on Unit 731, by former members, is adding yet more to the tragedy that is called the Auschwitz of the East, with mass executions, torture, live vivesection and biological weapon testing to name a few. As a result of the efforts of the Simon Weisenthal Center, which has continued the study and awareness of genocide, the Tokyo veterans were questioned via satellite teleconference, viewers of the historic event using email to forward questions.

"We were able to kill them because we despised them," said former soldier Shiro Azuma, of the innocent victims who were slaughtered. The millions of Chinese who fell victim during Japan's occupation of China were called 'murata' - a piece of wood - and had no human qualities in the eyes of the brutal oppressors, especially in the Mukden and Pingfan camps of Unit 731 and Unit 100.

Kanetoshi Tsuruta, a former member of the notorious biological warfare Unit 731, said typhus, cholera, anthrax and plague bacteria ware released on Chinese and Russians. He said he personally poured a substance he believes was typhus into a river upstream from a Soviet base.