Horrifying moment British POWs were used for target practice by Japanese WWII soldiers: Rare images show barbaric execution... before captives were bayoneted to ensure their deaths

I won't post the photos, as they're a bit grim.

When you buy a poppy do you ever buy it as a mark of respect for all those who've died in terrible wars?  I do.  When I wear it, I think not just of all the people who perished, but also all the poor animals who died.


[*]British Indian Army soldiers from Sikh Regiment can be seen sitting blindfolded with targets on their hearts
[*]After being savagely murdered by the Japanese soldiers, the British troops were then impaled with a bayonet
[*]Pictures were found among Japanese records when Allied troops returned Singapore to British rule in 1945
[*]Tens of thousands of British servicemen died in Japan's prisoner of war camps during the Second World War


[*]In the first image of the set, the Sikh prisoners of the British Indian Army are seen seated blindfolded with target marks om their hearts and stakes placed in the ground in front of them bearing the butt numbers of each 'target'. They sit with dignity awaiting their end. The vast majority of Indian soldiers captured when Singapore fell to Japan in February 1921 were Sikhs. In the photograph, all of them sit in traditional cross-legged position - reciting their final prayers. The Japanese treatment of prisoners in the war was infamously barbaric and this scene from Singapore in 1942 tallies with other instances of their degenerate behaviour



[*]It is clear in these photographs that this is a target practice not a straightforward military execution by a firing squad. A firing squad usually has six or more shooters per condemned to guarantee a near-instant death. But in this case, the Japanese shooters are carefully assigned one prisoner each and each victim has a demeaning target mark on his heart. Tens of thousands of British servicemen died from starvation, overwork, torture and disease in Japan's prisoner of war camps during the Second World War. These reveal the full scale of the inhuman brutality practised by the Japanese upon their helpless prisoners

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5080519/When-Japanese-used-British-prisoners-target-practice.html

which is why the over focus on Nazi atrocities is a bit of a Eurocentric telling of history.

the Japanese were at least as bad, in many case worse. there are records of Nazi German ambassadors asking Japan to be more humane.