yes “america bad” is a valid political stance

  • 🏳️‍⚧️ 新星 [she/they]
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    1 year ago

    Japan still was commiting genocide during the war

    They definitely committed war crimes and I don’t mean to downplay this. Was this genocide though?

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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      1 year ago

      https://web.archive.org/web/20070614140107/http://yale.edu/gsp/publications/WaiKeng.doc

      The [Axis] Occupation of Singapore from February 1942 to August 1945 was a particularly momentous period of loss and sacrifice for the Chinese population as compared to other ethnicities, because they were the targets of brutal [Imperial] military policies. During a month of screening procedures and indiscriminate massacres in 1942 known as sook ching, or cleansing operations, an undetermined number of civilians were separated from their families and friends and suffered uncertain fates. In many cases, the last time relatives saw loved ones was at a screening center before the unlucky victims were driven away in trucks to unknown destinations.

    • Buchenstr
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      1 year ago

      it was definitely genocide, what we’re criticising is the war crimes committed by the americans.