I just saw a doc on a woman who spent her life speaking about her experience of being at Hiroshima. She helped negotiate this treaty. I marched in NY in 1982. Then I quit following the issue so closely. I don’t remember this happening
Who signed and ratified?
Click on Status, at the top
Name and shame if you have the bottle
Not really my style.
And here is her uncle etched in stone forever.
Amazing isnt it that america drop the bomb shouting we did it to end the war but when we little israel want to do the same in gaza its called genicide
Amazing how you hear what you want to hear. Dropping the bomb was called genocide from the day it happened. Truman immediately took the power to order nuclear strikes away from the military, and there hasn’t been one since.
What is Netanyahu doing to prevent the deaths of children in Gaza by the military actions he is ordering?
And, don’t make every thread about Israel.
Took away nothing. Two bombs were dropped and justified by the yanks. Netty is doing what he wants and telling the ICC to shove it up their backside and biden to go back to sleep
The A bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime, and killed thousands of Japanese people. But it was not much worst than the bombing of Dresde for instance.
It was not a genocide, either by intent and by result.
In fact, the A bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki convinced the Japan to surrender and they prevented hundred of thousands of death.
These civilians had been conscripted in the army for suicide attacks armed with bamboos spears, among them boys in secondary schools and woman.
When US army attacked and took Okinawa, US losses were roughly 48 000, of whom 12 000 were killed or missing.
The US military estimates that 110,071 Japanese soldiers were killed during the battle. This total includes conscripted Okinawan civilians.
Civilian losses are estimated between 40 000 and 100 000.
During the battle, the Imperial Japanese Army showed indifference to Okinawans’ safety, and its soldiers used civilians as human shields or outright killed them. The Japanese military also confiscated food from the Okinawans and executed those who hid it, leading to mass starvation, and forced civilians out of their shelters.
With the impending Japanese defeat, civilians often committed mass suicide, urged on by the Japanese soldiers who told locals that victorious American soldiers would go on a rampage of killing and raping. Ryūkyū Shimpō, one of the two major Okinawan newspapers, wrote in 2007: “There are many Okinawans who have testified that the Japanese Army directed them to commit suicide. There are also people who have testified that they were handed grenades by Japanese soldiers” to blow themselves up.Thousands of civilians, having been induced by Japanese propaganda to believe that American soldiers were barbarians who committed horrible atrocities, killed their families and themselves to avoid capture at the hands of the Americans. Some of them threw themselves and their family members from the southern cliffs where the Peace Museum now resides.
Imagine such losses on the scale of mainland Japan.
At least 90% of the buildings on the island were destroyed, along with countless historical documents, artifacts, and cultural treasures, and the tropical landscape was turned into “a vast field of mud, lead, decay and maggots”