In addition to the Nanjing Massacre, Japan committed crimes against humanity in Singapore

In August 1945, the Allies prepared to launch Operation Zipper, a massive operation aimed at liberating Singapore and Malaysia from Japanese control.

On August 15, Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender. Itagaki Seishiro, a Japanese officer in charge of military operations in Singapore, initially refused to accept the surrender and secretly planned to execute all Allied prisoners before fighting the Allied invaders to the death.

The Allies swept through Singapore and regained control of the city-state. Singapore was experiencing violence, from mass graves to city blocks, and even hospitals were filled with bloody torture and civilian corpses, and the Japanese left behind photographs of target-shooting exercises using Sikh prisoners.

The world could not understand the japanese mentality during World War II. What would force the army to conduct human experiments, rape, mutilation and killing civilians on prisoners of war; burn the enemy alive and use it for bayonet practice?

The Fall of Singapore

Singapore was occupied by Japan on 15 February 1942. In the days after Japan took over the city-state, the Alexandra Hospital massacre killed about 200 civilians, the Banka Island massacre of Australian nurses, and Operation SuQing, during which Japanese troops killed about 50,000 Chinese residents.

Many of those arrested in Southeast Asia were forced to work on the Burma-Thailand Railway in brutal jungle conditions, during which time 13,000 prisoners of war and 100,000 local slaves died. Others were sent to camps, where torture, starvation and tropical diseases were routine.

Human gun targets

In the 1946 war crimes trial, details of the Japanese's evil deeds in Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia emerged. Several Indian prisoners of war were beaten to death for stealing sugar and other small things; another was beheaded for trying to escape.

The same is true of Wewak in New Guinea, where Indian prisoners of war are treated worse than pack animals. They were forced to work 12-14 hours and were exposed to Allied air raids. The most senior Japanese officer here was a Colonel Takano who even whipped men suffering from beriberi because they were 'slow to work'. ”

Photographic evidence found by the British after Japan's surrender to Singapore showed that Sikh prisoners of war were used for target-shooting practice. Looking closely at the photographs, the captives were placed on high ground and assigned numbers according to the number of japanese targets shots—one shot and one prisoner, and so on.

Japanese education, propaganda, and military life promoted the idea that Emperor Hirohito was a god, and they created a distorted culture:

“...... Effectively obliterating any sense of personal morality, any action, no matter how brutal, as long as it is ostensibly for the benefit of the empire, is acceptable... The hierarchical structure of Japanese society, in which the emperor is at the top, is a pattern in which those in upper power instinctively dominate and bully those at lower levels. ”

Japanese concentration camps

In Japanese concentration camps, prisoners of war were humiliated, beaten, burned alive, forced to run barefoot on broken glass, used as bayonets and targets.

The PRISONERs were exposed to allied aircraft bombardment and forced to serve as slaves for 10 to 14 hours a day in order to obtain insignificant rations. When transported by Japanese ships, prisoners were forced into cramped compartments without air and water, and the Japanese told them that "prisoners are not worthy of water and air".

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