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Originally Posted by Livia
Have you ever heard of Nanking, arista? In a few weeks the Japanese slaughtered hundreds of thousands civilians and unarmed personnel, they looted, raped... This was just a few years before Hiroshima. Also, the Laha Airfield massacre, where they murdered 300 Australian and Dutch prisoners of war. The Alexandra Hospital Massacre, where they murdered everyone in the hospital, medical staff, patients, people on the operating table even, leaving around 200 to clear up the mess before bayonetting them all in the courtyard. 100,000 people died during the construction of the Death Railway, including thousands of POWs who were kept on starvation rations and in atrocious conditions. During the Massacre of Manila Japanese soldiers raped, bayoneted, machine gunned and beheaded people. They also burned down buildings with people still inside... 100,000 civilians died.
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But were the innocent citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki responsible for these atrocities? Two wrongs don't make a right- the horrific acts of violence on civilians by the Japanese army shouldn't have been met by a horrific act of violence on civilians by the US army, but instead should have been responded to by destroying the weapons, infrastructure and ideology that caused these atrocities in the fist place.
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