World War II: Four atrocities committed by Japanese police in secret

Most people are familiar with the terrible Gestapo, the secret police of the Nazi regime, but their acts of terror and repression are not as good as those of their Japanese rival Kempeitai. Established in 1881 as a modern military police of the Japanese imperial army, until the rise of Japanese imperialist expansion after World War I, these troops were basically insignificant. The camp became a cruel state institution, which had jurisdiction over the occupied territory, captured prisoners of war and obeyed the people. Kempeitai people are both spies and counterintelligence personnel. They used torture to kill people. When Japan surrendered, many files were deliberately destroyed by Kempeitai people, so the true scale of their atrocities will probably never be known.

1. Vegetable Basket Massacre

After the Japanese occupied east indies, the Netherlands, a group of British soldiers were trapped during the invasion. They went to the mountains to fight as guerrilla resistance forces, but they were captured by tortured gendarmes. According to the testimony of more than 6 witnesses, these people were forced to enter a 1-meter-long (3-foot) bamboo cage and then thrown into the river. The prisoners suffered from severe dehydration, and these people were eaten alive or drowned by sharks.

A Dutch witness, who was only 11 years old at that time, described the incident as a magazine: at about noon one day, at the hottest time of the day, a convoy of about four or five military vehicles passed through the street where we were playing, full of so-called "pig baskets". Often used in transporting pigs. Indonesian is a * * * country, and pigs are only available for consumers in Europe and China. To our surprise, the pigsty was crowded with British soldiers, some of whom still wore their uniforms and even some special hats. They were tied together, facing each other, piled up, and lay down in the basket like pigs. Some people were crying and drinking water in a terrible state. I saw a Japanese guard open his mouth to urinate. I remember being frightened. I'll never forget this photo.

2. The death March of Scientology

The occupation of Borneo enabled Japan to obtain valuable offshore oil fields, and they decided to look for prisoners of war at the military airport in Scientology Port. About 15 prisoners of war, mostly Australians, were sent to Sandakan, where they endured terrible conditions, a little food, a little vegetables and some dirty rice. In the case of hunger, tropical ulcers and malnutrition, prisoners of war were forced to work on the runway.

some early escapes led to the suppression of the camp. Prisoners of war were beaten or imprisoned in open cages and tortured by gendarmes. They burned their meat with lighters or nailed metal under their nails. One victim described: They squeezed the kebab into my left ear and hit it with a small hammer. I fainted for a while. Eventually it healed, but of course I couldn't hear it. I haven't heard it since.

Despite the crackdown, an Australian soldier, captain Matthews, organized an underground intelligence circle to smuggle medical supplies, food and money to prisoners and kept in radio contact with the allied forces. He refused to reveal the names of the people who helped him, although he was arrested and tortured. He was executed by the gendarmerie in 1944. In January, 1945, the allied forces bombed the Scientology Air Force Base, and the Japanese decided to evacuate inland to Lanao.

3. Jesuiton Uprising

The city now known as Kota Kinabalu was established by the British North Borneo Company in 1899 as a transit station and rubber source until it was occupied by the Japanese in January 1942. On October 9, 1943, an uprising of Chinese and Suluks attacked the Japanese military authorities, attacking Japanese office buildings, police stations, military hotels, warehouses and main docks. Although the rebels only brought a few shotguns, spears and long paranoid knives, they killed the Japanese who occupied the city and surrounding towns before retreating to the mountains.

Two companies were sent to take malicious revenge, which was aimed not only at the rebels, but also at the general public. Hundreds of Chinese were executed on suspicion of helping or supporting the rebels. They also attacked the Suluks on Suluge Island, Udar Island, Dinawan Island, Mantanani Island and Mon Garam Island. All the male population on the island was wiped out, and women and children were forcibly transferred to other places. Similar massacres took place in Suluk and Houdar. Although the Japanese expected only 5 people to die, others gave a figure close to 3,, especially the treatment of Sulu people, which was described by some as genocide.

4. Double Ten Incident

In October 1943, a group of British and Australian commandos infiltrated Singapore Harbour and used an old fishing boat and a folding canoe. They planted mines and sank or stopped seven Japanese ships, including an oil tanker. They ran away without being seen, so the Japanese were convinced that the attack was planned by British guerrillas in Malaya, according to the information sent to them by civilians and prisoners in Changi prison.

On October 1th, the gendarmerie raided the prison, searched the evidence for one day and arrested the suspect. Further inspection revealed that the detainees were suspected of being involved in port sabotage activities, including an Anglican bishop and a former British colonial secretary and press officer. The cells that they will huddle together in the next May are always brightly lit, without bedding or room to lie down, and suffer from hunger and cruel interrogation. One suspect was executed on suspicion of sabotage, and 15 others eventually died as a result of torture by gendarmes.

In the trial of the man known as the "Double Tenth Incident" in 1946, the theme of this case can be summed up in two words, unspeakable horror. * * * Naked infiltration in every corner of this case, from the beginning to the end, without relief or appeasement.