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It's extremely tragic that American war criminals never got punished.
by trasz 5y ago
It's extremely tragic that American war criminals never got punished.
- q_andrew 5y agoYes. There's even some evidence that chemical warfare via bombing was done in Korea, something they really should have known was a terrible thing to do.
- dundarious 5y agoI'm quite excited for the Blowback podcast season 3, coming out this summer. The new subject is the Korean war. Season 1 and 2, on the Iraq wars and the Cuban missile crisis respectively, are my favorite podcasts.
- throwaway984393 5y agoVictors never do. But they do write history books.
- refurb 5y ago
- Ancapistani 5y agoThe most egregious war criminals among the Japanese - who obviously lost the war - weren’t even punished. Shiro Ishii, the leader of Unit 731, among them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirō_Ishii
- trasz 5y agoThat’s true - some of those went unpunished. Even then, at least Japan stopped committing further atrocities.
- dijksterhuis 5y agofrom the wiki page > there was no international treaty or instrument protecting a civilian population specifically from attack by aircraft at the time reference https://web.archive.org/web/20130425044944/http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/57jpcl.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20130425044944/http://www.icrc.o...
- trasz 5y agoHolocaust was legal too. And yet the allies succeeded at prosecuting main offenders.