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| ===== Unit 731 ===== | ===== Unit 731 ===== |
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| Unit 731 was a Japanese army covert research unit based in China's Pingfang district at the time. It was created by Shiro Ishii, a combat medical officer, and is staffed by a large number of other doctors. Over 12,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war were captured and taken to Unit 731 over the course of the war. None of them survived. [([[https://allthatsinteresting.com/unit-731|All That's Interesting]])] | Unit 731 was a Japanese army covert research unit based in China's Pingfang district at the time. It was created by Shiro Ishii, a combat medical officer, and was staffed by a large number of other doctors. Researchers introduced diseases like syphilis, anthrax, and gonorrhea into victims; abused women to perform tests on their fetuses; used prisoners as human targets for grenades; and even burned people alive. The Japanese army dropped plague-carrying fleas into Chinese villages outside the unit to see how quickly the disease spread. [([[https://allthatsinteresting.com/unit-731|All That's Interesting]])] |
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| ===== T4 Program ===== | ===== T4 Program ===== |
| ===== Andersonville - Camp Sumter ===== | ===== Andersonville - Camp Sumter ===== |
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| Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia, housed Union POWs. The camp, which had been chronically understocked, was in terrible shape. It was constructed to hold 10,000 prisoners, but at its peak in 1864, it held 32,000 POWs, leaving inmates with just six square feet of “living space.” [([[https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/andersonville|History]])] | Henry Wirz, the Confederate commander of Camp Sumter in Andersonville, Georgia, housed Union POWs. The camp, which had been chronically understocked, was in terrible shape. It was constructed to hold 10,000 prisoners, but at its peak in 1864, it held 32,000 POWs, leaving inmates with just six square feet of “living space.” [([[https://www.nps.gov/articles/andersonville-prisoner-of-war-camp-teaching-with-historic-places.htm|NPS]])] |
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| | ===== Congo Wars ===== |
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| | Child soldiers, cannibalism, and, most notably, mass rape dominated the country's harrowing past toward the end of the twentieth century. These assaults have targeted women of all ages. Rape is a military strategy in the Congo that is not discriminated and is known as the rape capital of the world. Women's genitalia have been mutilated in some cases. [([[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_violence_in_the_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo|Wikipedia]])] |
