Saturday, September 30, 2023

A 32-year-old woman engaged in agriculture, who had been exposed to the Nagasaki atomic bomb and was rescued at the Omura Naval Hospital, was hospitalized on September 11, three days after the bombing on August 9, in the fourth sick bay, with general weakness.

  A 32-year-old woman who was engaged in agriculture was injured by the Nagasaki atomic bomb and was admitted to the Omura Naval Hospital. Three days after the bombing, on September 11, she was admitted to the hospital in the fourth ward. On September 21, her erythrocyte sedimentation rate rose to about 100 mm per hour. No other indication was given and there were no articles recorded.

  Immediately after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped and exploded, the Nagasaki City Medical Association and other relief teams began medical relief activities from the area around the hypocenter. The main relief stations in the old city center of Nagasaki were the Shinkozen Elementary School relief station and the Katsuyama Elementary School relief station. The relief stations on the opposite shore were Inasa Elementary School, Mitsubishi Hospital (main hospital), and Goshinji Temple. In northern Nagasaki, a private house in Hiramune (now Nameshi 1-chome) was used as a relief station. In the surrounding area, the families of veteran military doctors were notably rescued.

  Only an hour or two after the Nagasaki atomic bomb exploded, Nagasaki Medical College employees began treating the injured who had been exposed to the bomb in the hills behind Nagasaki Medical College Hospital. Four to five hours later, the first team of the Isahaya Naval Hospital rescue team began treating the injured who had been exposed to the bomb at Irabayashi Elementary School. A rescue team from the Omura Naval Hospital and a rescue team from the National Obama Clinic (Obama Town Rescue Team) also entered the hypocenter area of Nagasaki City and carried out rescue activities.

  In Nagasaki City, dedicated relief efforts were carried out in and around the hypocenter immediately after the bombing. However, the scope of their activities was limited to a few areas. The arrival of relief teams was delayed under the worst possible conditions, with frequent air raid warnings and American fighter planes flying overhead. The start of full-scale medical relief activities was also delayed until August 10, the day after the Nagasaki atomic bomb was dropped. from August 10, relief teams from inside and outside Nagasaki Prefecture, including many Marine and Army relief teams and relief teams from various universities, arrived in the disaster area and were able to provide active relief. The organization of the relief units of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial Japanese Army gave priority to Nagasaki natives selected as officers and medics. It appears that soldiers from Nagasaki who worked under their command were also enlisted. The IJN and Japanese Army relief units mobilized to work in the devastated, bombed-out city of Nagasaki, university relief teams, and relief teams from inside and outside of Nagasaki Prefecture were engaged in relief efforts.




Friday, September 29, 2023

In July 1994, a cholera epidemic struck the Hutu people in Goma, Zaire, Africa, who had become refugees as a result of the Rwandan genocide. French military bulldozers gathered corpses killed by the cholera epidemic for mass burials.

  In July 1994, in Goma, Zaire, Africa, a deadly cholera epidemic struck Hutus who had become refugees as a result of the Rwandan genocide. French bulldozers gathered the corpses of those killed by the cholera epidemic for mass burials. A severe cholera epidemic spread through the refugee camps. Many of the cholera victims' corpses were piled in the desolate volcanic wilderness, exposed and rotting in the hot African sun. Other swollen corpses littered the landscape, desperately trying to stave off the worst epidemic in world history. The only relief was the excavation of mass graves, signaling the apocalyptic scope of the crisis. An estimated 1.2 million refugees streamed across the Zaire border.

  In the Rwandan genocide (also known as the Genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda), which broke out between April 7 and July 15, 1994, Rwanda's Hutu majority, located in Middle East Africa, killed as many as 800,000 people, mostly Tutsis from the minority group. The genocide, which broke out in the capital city of Kigali by Hutu nationalists, spread throughout Rwanda with shocking speed and brutality. Civilians were incited to take up arms against their neighbors by local officials and the Hutu-power government. By the time the Tutsi-led Rwandan Patriotic Front seized control of Rwanda in a military offensive in early July, hundreds of thousands of Rwandans had died and some 2 million mainly Hutu refugees had fled the country, exacerbating the situation into a full-scale humanitarian crisis. It was Rwandan citizens who cooperated with and supported the genocide. Many Tutsis and moderate Hutus were handed over and killed by their neighbors, who were inflamed by anti-Tutsi sentiment. Most of the refugees, Hutus fearing reprisals from the newly empowered Tutsi rebel government, were packed into disease-ridden refugee camps in neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and former Zaire.

  In July 1994, cholera, the worst epidemic disease, broke out among nearly one million Rwandan refugees in Goma, in eastern Zaire, Africa. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that nearly 12,000 people died in the epidemic. The Bangladesh International Diarrhea Research Center sent a medical team to Goma. During their nearly two-week stay, they worked with UNICEF and the Zaire Ministry of Health to conduct epidemiological assessments, operate a temporary treatment center, and provide technical assistance to other health personnel in the management of cholera and dysentery. A microbiology laboratory was established in Goma to identify the pathogens responsible for the epidemic and their drug susceptibility. Medical teams visited a number of temporary treatment facilities in two of the five camp sites and provided technical advice to health care providers. Treatment facilities in Goma, where an estimated 200,000 refugees were affected by the epidemic, were also visited. Cholera deaths at treatment centers were also much higher than expected.

  The overall case fatality rate at treatment centers was nearly 15%. Laboratory investigations identified the initial outbreak as cholera resistant to tetracycline and doxycycline antibiotics; by the first week of August, the number of cholera cases had declined, but the number of dysentery cases increased rapidly. It was mainly caused by dysentery bacillus type 1, which was resistant to most dysentery medications except mecillinam. Inadequate rehydration therapy and inexperienced health personnel did not prevent deaths. The medical team took over the operation of the Katindo Temporary Treatment Center in Goma, which had the highest case fatality rate (14.5%) and reduced the fatality rate to less than 1%.



Thursday, September 28, 2023

On April 3, 1865, in the closing days of the American Civil War, the bodies of Confederate soldiers killed by Union troops lay in the muddy trenches of Fort Mahone in Petersburg, Va.

   The body of a Confederate soldier killed by Union troops lies in a muddy trench at Fort Mahone in Petersburg, Virginia, on April 3, 1865, in the closing days of the American Civil War. taken by Thomas C. Roche on April 3, the day after Union troops broke through Robert E. Lee's defenses around the city. It was the closing stages of the Richmond-Petersburg campaign, which lasted approximately 292 days and was near the end of the American Civil War. Confederate soldiers within Union lines were killed and mortally wounded in a Union attack that was part of the Third Battle of Petersburg. The Union forces, which were much larger in size, attacked the thinly stretched Confederate forces. Union soldiers captured Richmond and Petersburg on April 3, 1865, while other Union soldiers surrounded the Confederates. Confederate General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender on April 9, 1865, after the Battle of Appomattox Court House.

  The American Civil War, fought between 1861 and 1865, was the bloodiest war in American history. The deadliest battle was the Battle of Gettysburg in Penilvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. In this battle alone, some 52,000 people were killed, wounded, or missing. Death, starvation, and battlefield destruction unfolded on the disastrous battlefield of the nearly four-year Civil War. The Confederacy used disease, starvation, exposure, and executions to kill thousands of former slaves, and on April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered in Virginia, ending the bloody war.

  The American Civil War was the bloodiest war in U.S. history, claiming some 620,000 lives in just four short years, from 1861 to 1865. The death toll represented about 2% of the U.S. population at the time. The death toll was about the same as in all other wars fought by the United States combined. More people died during the Civil War than in World War I (about 116,516) and World War II (about 405,339) combined. The quiet cause of death during the Civil War was disease. Nearly twice as many soldiers were killed or wounded in battle or from wounds sustained in battle. Overall, roughly one in four did not live to see the end of the war.



Wednesday, September 27, 2023

普仏戦争は、1870年7月19日に勃発した。1871年にドイツのプロイセン軍がパリ近郊のモントルージュを攻撃した際に、2人のフランス人の子供が殺害された。スイス人の写真家が、戦争の犠牲者にも意図的に焦点を当て撮影した。普仏戦争にて、1870年9月1日のセダンの戦いでフランス軍が大敗して、皇帝ナポレオン3世が捕虜となった。10月31日に、フランス軍はル・ブルジェへの脱出を試みたが失敗に終わった。1ヵ月後に、セダンでプロイセン軍の捕虜となり首都パリに逃れたデュクロ将軍が、11月30日から12月2日にシャンピニー高原に足場を築くも、2日間の戦闘の後にフランス軍隊はパリ市内に撤退した。

 1871年1月5日に、プロイセン軍の砲台がパリを砲撃をした。1月18日に、ヴェルサイユ宮殿で、ドイツ帝国が樹立された。1月19日にトロチュー将軍が約10万人のフランス軍を率いて、ブゼンヴァルでの血なまぐさい惨事の後に、パリ市民の間には再び反乱が起こった。1月22日に、戦争継続を望むパリ市民の最後のあがきであったが、フランス新政府がプロイセン軍に休戦を要請した。1月23日に、休戦交渉を開始するためヴェルサイユに向かった。1月18日に、ヴェルサイユ宮殿の鏡の回廊で、ウィリアム1世はドイツ全王子に囲まれながら休戦を要請して、1月28日に休戦協定が署名された。パリ市民の苛立ちは頂点に達し、住民の苦難が緊張を高める一因となった。労働者自治政府のパリ・コンミューンが3月26日に樹立されてから、ヴェルサイユ新政府軍に鎮圧された5月28日まで成立した。普仏戦争の犠牲者は、プロシア軍は死者約44,700人、89732人が戦傷した。フランス軍は、約138,871人が戦死して、143,000人が戦傷した。

 子どもたちはパリ・コミューンに参戦した。ヴェルサイユ軍がパリに侵攻する前に、子どもたちが母親と一緒にバリケードを築いた記録は数多く残った。ヴェルサイユ軍がパリに侵攻して、反乱軍を見つけ次第に射殺し始めた。子どもたちは悲惨にも親と一緒に射殺された。パリ・コミューンの後に逮捕された16歳以下の子供は約516人、18歳以下の子供は約643人であった。パリ・コンミューン後に、囚われの身となった子供たちが、シャンティエ刑務所の1階に収容された。ひどい殴打や残酷な仕打ちを受けた。刑務所所長たちは、ある子供たちの服を脱がせ、収容者に殴らせた。子供たちは、刑務所長に殴られた藁の上で死亡することもあった。



Tuesday, September 26, 2023

During the Algerian War, French Foreign Legion troops abused and massacred many civilian Algerians, women, and children. A group of French Foreign Legion troops took a group photo in front of the massacred and scattered Algerian corpses.

  During the Algerian War, French Foreign Legion troops abused and massacred many civilian Algerians, women, and children. A group of French Foreign Legion troops took a group photo in front of the corpses of Algerians they massacred. The emaciated and bony corpses of Algerian victims littered the massacre site.

  On November 1, 1954, the Front de Libération Nationale (FLM), fighting for Algeria's independence, launched an armed resistance against French colonial rule, In the early morning of November 1, the guerrillas attacked several military installations, police stations, warehouses, communications facilities, and public facilities. From 1956 to 1957, the National Liberation Front adopted hit-and-run guerrilla tactics, focusing on ambushes and night raids to avoid fighting the better-armed French army. They adopted hit-and-run guerrilla tactics, focusing on ambushes and night raids.

 By 1956, France had deployed some 400,000+ French troops in Algeria. Combat missions attacking the National Liberation Front were carried out primarily by the colony's elite infantry paratroopers and French Foreign Legion. About 170,000 Algerian Muslims served in the French regular army, mostly as volunteers, and in the late 1950s France forcibly relocated more than 2 million Algerians from their mountainous homelands to concentration camps in the plains to prevent them from supporting the rebels.

  The Algerian War resulted in the deaths of some 300,000 to 1.5 million Algerians, some 25,600 French troops, and some 6,000 Europeans. French troops destroyed more than 8,000 villages and forcibly relocated more than 2 million Algerians to concentration camps; upon Algeria's independence in 1962, some 900,000 European Algerians fled to France in the months that followed, fearing revenge from the National Liberation Front. The French government was not prepared to accept the huge number of refugees, and the country was in turmoil. Algerian soldiers, especially Halkis, who had fought in the French army, were considered traitors, and many were abducted and tortured by lynch mobs and then killed by the National Liberation Front. About 90,000 people fled the country to France.

 On November 1, 1954, fighting broke out between French Christian settlers and the National Liberation Front led by Ben Bella. Although initially outnumbered, the atrocities committed by the well-armed French and colonial forces soon brought the National Liberation Front the support of the peasant masses. The National Liberation Front extended its guerrilla offensive to Algiers at the end of 1956. As a result, the French Fourth Republican government lost control over the settlers. De Gaulle returned, causing the collapse of the Fourth Republic and the creation of the Fifth French Republic. De Gaulle immediately re-established French military allegiance in Algeria through his personal authority against the secret military organization of Salins. De Gaulle called on the National Liberation Front to negotiate peace, and the fighting stopped with the signing of the Evian Agreement on March 18, 1962, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Algerian independence was declared on July 3, 1962. 



Monday, September 25, 2023

A large number of remains from the Japanese military's purge of the Chinese community in Asahan, Malacca, in the southern part of the Malay Peninsula and the Federation of Malacca, have been unearthed. During the Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese military executed genocide to identify and eliminate suspected anti-Japanese elements in the Chinese community.

  A large number of remains from the Japanese army's purge of the Chinese descent population in Asahan, Malacca, in the southern Malay Peninsula and the Commonwealth of Malaya, have been unearthed. In the Greater East Asia War, Japanese forces occupied the Federation of Malaya from British forces on January 31, 1942, and Singapore on February 15, 1942. Sook Ching was a Chinese term meaning purge by cleansing. During the Japanese occupation of the Malay Peninsula, they carried out a massacre, known as the Dae Jing, to identify and eliminate suspected anti-Japanese elements in the Chinese community. From February 21 to March 4, 1942, Japanese troops forced Chinese men between the ages of 18 and 50 into mass arrest centers, where anti-Japanese suspects were executed. The Japanese military was most averse to Chinese of Chinese descent who financially supported both the Kuomintang and Communist forces in China.

 On February 18, 1942, Lieutenant General Yamashita Fubun, commander of the 25th Japanese Army, ordered the elimination of anti-Japanese elements within the Chinese population. The Japanese occupying forces executed the anti-Japanese suspects without trial, and on February 7, about 70 surviving soldiers of the Malay Regiment were forcibly taken by the Japanese from the POW camp at Farrer Park in Singapore to the battlefield at Pasir Panjang and shot to death. The purge broke out on February 21 in Singapore and later throughout Malaya. It was the outbreak of a genocidal purge that rounded up and executed Chinese Chinese nationals suspected of being a threat. An estimated 50,000 or more ethnic Chinese of Chinese descent were killed by the Japanese military police.

 On February 18, 1942, Lieutenant General Yamashita Bongwen issued a purge order to the Japanese Army's 25th Army. The purge order ordered all Chinese men of Chinese descent between the ages of 18 and 50 to report to designated screening centers. The order specifically targeted for selective execution the Volunteer Army, Communists, looters, arms bearers, and a list of anti-Japanese suspects controlled and distributed by the Japanese military.


 Mass arrests were carried out in urban areas from February 21 to March 4, 1942, by the Japanese Military Police's 2nd Field Division. The selection of each designated screening center was arbitrary and disorderly. At the Jalan Besar Center, men with glasses were screened as educated and guilty of anti-Japanese activities. At another center, soft hands were screened for evidence of education. At the Telok Kulau School center, people were screened based on occupation. Those unfortunate enough to be selected were loaded onto lorries and forcibly taken to remote locations. Suspects were summarily executed by machine-gun fire. The Japanese military did little to conceal the purge killings. It was estimated that the Japanese executed approximately 5,000 to 6,000 people. Chinese Chinese estimated about 40,000 to 50,000.



Sunday, September 24, 2023

Upon seeing the body of 34-year-old Mykhaio Kovalenko, who was killed by a Russian missile attack on January 28, 2023, in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, his mother, 66-year-old Nina Kovalenko, patted the side of her son's body as the mother knelt and cried.

  After seeing the body of 34-year-old Mykhaio Kovalenko, who was killed by a Russian missile attack on January 28, 2023 in Kostyantynivka, Donetsk Oblast, eastern Ukraine, his mother, 66-year-old Nina Kovalenko wept. Koschantynivka was located about 24 km southwest of Bakhmut, the site of the fierce fighting. In a residential courtyard, on the ground surrounded by wreckage and rubble, lay the body of her son, his upper body covered with a sheet. The mother knelt down and patted the side of her son's corpse while crying. The other body, covered by a sheet, lay near a wheelbarrow that the man had probably been pushing at the moment of impact.

 Amid news that NATO countries had pledged to provide Ukraine with heavy tanks, Russian forces bombarded various parts of Ukraine with missiles, exploding drones, and artillery shells in late January 2023. The attacks continued on January 28, when Russian missiles struck the city of Koschantynivka in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast. The Donetsk Oblast was almost bisected into Russian and Ukrainian control and became the epicenter of the war as Russian forces launched an offensive in the months leading up to the capture of Bakhmut.

 Russian missiles fell on a residential neighborhood in Koschantynivka, killing three civilians and wounding 14 others; four high-rise apartment buildings, a hotel, and a garage were damaged; and the city of Koschantynivka was hit by a Russian missile that hit the city of Koschantynivka, killing three civilians and wounding 14 others. Although Koschantynivka was relatively far from the front lines of the Russo-Ukrainian war, it was still under constant attack by Russian troops. All remaining inhabitants of Koscianchinivka were in mortal danger. Russian troops not only fought Ukrainian forces, but also targeted civilians.

 In a post to the Telegram in the early morning hours of January 28, it was announced that four civilians had been killed and seven wounded in the last 24 hours in a Russian military attack on Donetsk Oblast. A three-story school building was burning in the blaze. Russian forces carried out 10 missile attacks, 26 airstrikes, and 81 artillery strikes on Ukrainian territory between January 28 and the morning of January 29, the Ukrainian military said. Two civilians were killed by shelling in the partially Russian-occupied Cherson Oblast.














Warning: Nina Kovalenko, 66, crying over the body of her son Mykhailo Kovalenko, 36, who was killed in a strike on Saturday in Kostyantynivka, in eastern Ukraine.(Lynsey Addario for The New York Times)


Saturday, September 23, 2023

A 3-year-old Japanese girl was burned by the Nagasaki atomic bomb, and walked around with a bandage on her head on September 29, 1945. She was injured near her destroyed home, about 1.9 kilometers south of the hypocenter of the Nagasaki atomic bomb.

  A 3-year-old Japanese girl was burned by the explosion of the Nagasaki atomic bomb dropped by the U.S. Air Force on August 9, 1945, in Nagasaki, Japan. She walked around with a bandage on her head after being injured near her destroyed home about 1.9 kilometers south of the Nagasaki bomb's hypocenter. A Japanese girl plays in the ruins of the collapsed Nagasaki Shinsei (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Photo #290036_Box 570_RG111SC, https://www.nichimyus.jp/). A U.S. Army Air Force unit inspected, photographed, and documented the city of Nagasaki after it was hit by the atomic bomb.












 

 

 The detonation of the atomic bomb resulted in the appearance of a huge fireball. The fireball was about 100 times brighter than the sun and its center was several million degrees Celsius. The fireball was about 100 times brighter than the sun, and its center was several million degrees Celsius. It released intense heat rays, fierce blasts, and enormous amounts of radiation, and instantly set a wide area on fire, centered on the hypocenter. The heat rays caused the surface temperature of the ground at the hypocenter to reach approximately 3,000 to 4,000 degrees Celsius. The intense heat rays caused severe burns to the survivors, and many people were killed or injured. Fires that broke out immediately after the bombing also caused extensive damage and destruction.

 Damage caused by the Nagasaki atomic bomb (estimated by the end of December 1945)* The estimated population of Nagasaki City at that time was approximately 240,000 (rationed population as of May 31, 1945), of which 73,884 were killed and 74,909 were injured. (Report of the Committee for the Preservation of Atomic Bomb Materials (released in July 1945)) A girl who suffered burns on her head from the Nagasaki atomic bomb was searching and rummaging around in the rubble ground of the ruined Nagasaki City.



Friday, September 22, 2023

In Sudan, Northeast Africa, the Battle of Um Diwaqarat on November 25, 1899, the British Egyptian Expeditionary Force brutally massacred the Mahdist army and its followers, scattering approximately 1,000 more corpses and destroying the Mahdist state.

北東アフリカのスーダンにおける1899年11月25日のウム・ディワカラート(Umm Diwaykarat)の戦いは、マフディスト国家の最終的な滅亡を示した。カリファとして知られるアブダッラーヒ・イブン・ムハンマドが指揮下したマフディスト軍の残党が撃破された。マフディスト軍と信奉者らは残忍に大量虐殺されて、ウム・ディワカラートの戦いが終わるまでに約1,000人以上の死体が散乱した。マフディスト国家の後継者であったハリファとして知られるアブダラヒ・イブン・ムハンマドの死体も含まれていた。

 首都オムドゥルマンから撤退したマフディスト軍は、後継者のハリファと約1万人の残りの信奉者たちは、追撃してきた約8000人のウィンゲート将軍の指揮したエジプト遠征軍と立ち向かうことを選択した。武装していたマフディスト軍は残忍に大量虐殺されて、ウム・ディワカラートの戦いが終わるまでに約1,000人以上の死者が出た。

 その1年前の1989年9月2日に、スーダンの首都オムドゥルマン(Omdurman)の戦いで、イギリス軍のキッチナー卿が指揮下したエジプト遠征軍に、マフディスト軍は同様に悲惨な敗北を喫した。約52,000人のマディスト軍は、約12,000人が戦死して、約13,000人が戦傷して、約5,000人捕虜になった。約25,800人のエジプト遠征軍は、約48人が戦死して約382人が戦傷して、近代的装備で圧倒した。

 マフディストの反乱軍はオスマン・エジプト政権を打倒し、オムドゥルマンを首都とする独自のイスラム・国家を1885年1月26日に樹立した。イギリスは1898年にスーダンを再征服して、植民地としてスーダンを統治した。イギリスの首相に2回なったウィンストン・チャーチルは、イギリス陸軍の将校として、キャリアアップのために戦闘の経験を求めてオムドゥルマンの戦いに参戦した。チャーチルは、電信、鉄道、新世代の兵器の使用による戦争の機械化を詳しく述べた『河川戦争The River War:スーダン再征服の歴史的記述(1899年)』を敢行した。



Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Australian soldier prisoners of war suffered severe weakness and partial paralysis from leprosy due to forced labor by the Japanese Army to build the Burma-Thailand railroad connecting Thailand and Burma. The disease, caused by vitamin B1 deficiency, was spread by the poor diet of the Japanese troops.

 Australian soldier POWs suffered severe weakness and partial paralysis from leprosy due to forced labor on the Burma-Thailand railroad by the Japanese. Numbness of limbs, loss of muscle function, vomiting, and mental confusion were observed. The beriberi caused edema. Fluid in the body flowed toward the legs, causing swelling of the feet and legs. Her legs were severely swollen and it was very painful for her to stand or walk. The disease was caused by vitamin B1 deficiency and was spread by the poor diet of the Japanese army.

 From December 5, 1943, the Japanese military executed the construction of the Burma-Thailand Railway connecting Thailand and Burma in order to supply supplies needed for the Greater East Asia War. The Thai-Burma railroad was constructed for about 420 km through rugged jungle. Built by a captive labor force of about 60,000 Allied prisoners of war and about 200,000 Romusha Asian laborers, the railroad was laid with hand tools and muscle in the monsoon of 1943. All were driven by cries of "speed" from the Japanese army. Relentless forced labor in a deadly tropical environment with inadequate rations took an enormous toll: by the time the railroad was completed in October 1943, at least about 2,815 Australians, more than 11,000 other Allied POWs, and some 75,000 Romushas had died of disease.

 Disease was the leading cause of death on the Burma-Thailand-Burma railroad. Almost all POWs fell ill as a result of overwork, malnutrition, poor diet, and the refusal of the Japanese military to provide adequate medical supplies. POWs who were forced to work often contracted more than one illness at a time. Only those who were seriously ill were allowed to rest. Civilians would continue to work even if they were considered seriously ill.

 Dysentery and diarrhea were the most common illnesses, accounting for more than one-third of all POW deaths. The continual passing of stools led to dehydration and the loss of vitamins essential for survival. The lack of a nutritious diet led to widespread avitaminosis (a disease caused by vitamin deficiency). The most frequent diseases were beriberi (lack of vitamin B1) and pellagra (lack of niacin).

 Malaria caused about 8 percent of the deaths on the Burma-Thailand Railway. Malaria was transmitted by mosquitoes, and symptoms included chills, fever, and weakness. Victims sometimes had recurring cases after the war. Tropical ulcers were particularly frowned upon, although they accounted for only 2 percent of deaths from railroad accidents. They were caused by infection of the wound with microorganisms, which ate away flesh to the bone. In many cases, amputation was the only option. However, many patients lost their lives due to lack of appropriate medications and equipment.

 In other cases of illness and death, cholera was so contagious and deadly that about 12% of prisoners died. It was spread by food and water contaminated with feces and was prevalent during the rainy season when latrines overflowed. The patient rolled on the ground doubled over with severe stomach cramps, limbs twitched, and muscles twitched and jerked. Vomiting and a whitish liquid of rice water was forcibly forced out and gushed from the intestines.

 During the "speed" period of the Thai-Burma railroad's eviction in mid-1943, each camp had a crude cemetery because of the daily death toll. Medical personnel recorded details of the gravesites of the dead so that the bodies could later be recovered and identified. Funerals were solemnized and last post notes were heard from the jungle. The pungent smell of campfires wafted through the camp. The Japanese allowed the dead POWs to be buried and witnessed their funerals. Even though they were indifferent to the suffering of POWs during their lives, they respected them after their deaths.




 

The Croatian fascist organization Ustaše hanged 55 Sarajevo citizens from trees and lampposts in the midnight of March 27-28, 1945, in the Marijin Dvor district of Sarajevo.

      The Croatian fascist organization Ustash hanged 55 Sarajevo citizens from trees and lampposts in Sarajevo's Marindovor district in the middle of the night between March 27 and 28, 1945. A sign reading "Long live Pogravnik!" signs were placed around the necks of the hanged Sarajevo citizens. The bodies of Sarajevo citizens were left hanging as an example to others. Those who attempted to retrieve the bodies were fired upon. from February 18 to April 4, Lubricić and Ustaše carried out grisly attacks against Sarajevo citizens, killing at least 783 Sarajevo residents. Punishments of retribution by hanging for the murders and assassinations were carried out.

 Vjekoslav Luburić, a senior Ustaše official, ordered the hangings. In February 1945, the Ustaše dictator Pavelić's regime sent Luburić to Sarajevo, where he orchestrated the torture and murder of hundreds of communists over the next two months, Ustash uncovered an assassination plot against Lubrich. Four Ustash were subsequently murdered by partisans. In retaliation, they executed 55 suspected Sarajevo citizens by hanging for show. The most horrific atrocity was the execution of a holocaust in the basement of the Lubricić villa, which was called Berković.

 Ustaše was a Croatian fascist organization from 1929 to 1945. In Yugoslavia during World War II, Ustash executed the Holocaust and massacred hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Jews, Roma, and dissident Croats. Ustaš did not persecute Bosniaks as Muslim Croats, and on April 10, 1941, as a quasi-protectorate of the Axis powers, he was appointed to govern part of Yugoslavia as the puppet state Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and took power. Ustaš was militarily weak and lacked the support of the Croatian people; on May 15, 1945, the Independent State of Croatia collapsed. Lubricić fled to Spain, the only non-Axis country to recognize the Independent State of Croatia, and was assassinated in Spain on April 21, 1969, by Ilija Stanić, an agent of the Yugoslav State Security Service (UDBA).



Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Bodies of Japanese soldiers were scattered on the beach and coconut groves after the Battle of Tenaru River during the Battle of Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific War. About 800 of the approximately 917 Japanese soldiers of the Ichiki detachment were killed in action.

     Bodies of Japanese soldiers litter the beach and coconut groves after the Battle of Tenaru River, another name for the American side of the Battle of Guadalcanal Island in the Pacific War. The Ichiki Detachment, partially deployed on Guadalcanal Island, assaulted American troops who had landed at the Battle of Tenaru River around the airfield on August 21. The Battle of Tenaru River on Guadalcanal was the first large-scale land attack by the Japanese. The Ichiki Detachment was dispatched to Guadalcanal with the mission of recapturing the airfield following the landing of the American forces on Guadalcanal. The Japanese underestimated the American forces that had landed, and repeatedly deployed piecemeal Japanese reserve troops gathered from all over the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.

  The Ichiki Detachment made a frontal attack on the American positions at night in the Battle of the Ile River Crossing, the original alias of the Japanese Army. Under the onslaught of American artillery and machine gun fire, most Japanese soldiers were killed as they crossed the bar of the Ir River. The Americans deployed tanks and surrounded the Ichki detachment, driving it into a coconut grove and destroying it. About 800 of the approximately 917 men of the Ichiki detachment were killed in action, ending at 3:00 p.m. on August 21, but not before firing on the bodies of all Japanese soldiers who had been wounded and bayoneted to death to prevent them from being shot by wounded Japanese soldiers.

   The Battle of Guadalcanal in the Pacific War, a bloody and prolonged battle over the Solomons during the rainy season, broke out on August 7, 1942. In the early hours of August 9, the Japanese battleship Mikawa surprised and destroyed an American covering force in the battle off Savo Island. On August 10, both U.S. battleships and cargo carriers withdrew from the area, wary of Japanese air raids. By August 20, the U.S. forces ashore were extremely vulnerable due to the loss of reserve forces and supplies.

 In the months following the landing on Guadalcanal Island, many desperate and disastrous land battles were fought to attack and defend the airstrip at Henderson Field Airfield. The American forces gradually reinforced their reserves and supplies and gradually expanded their perimeter. Defeated Japanese soldiers refused to surrender, and Japanese soldiers were willing to continue killing American soldiers even as they lay dying on the battlefield.




Monday, September 18, 2023

On the Western Front of World War I, a French infantry company was shot down in a forest near Péronne in a surprise attack by German troops in the early hours of August 28, 1914. The bodies of many French soldiers killed were scattered on the battlefield near Péronne.

  On the Western Front of World War I, a French infantry company was shot down in a forest near Péronne in northeastern France in a surprise attack by German troops in the early hours of August 28, 1914. The bodies of numerous French soldiers killed were scattered across the battlefield near Péronne, where much of the fighting took place. A French officer looked around at the scattered corpses (Illustrated War News, Oct. 14, 1914).

 The French military recorded in an official French military dispatch dated September 24, 1914. The German detachment had occupied Peronne and was holding this battlefield despite the heavy French attack. The Germans occupied the Péronne from August 27 to September 14, when a French cavalry division temporarily reoccupied the Péronne; on August 28, the Germans again invaded the Péronne, this time with the help of a French cavalry division. The Mail's correspondent recorded the ensuing battle as seen from a neighboring village. Shells were falling on the road and in the woods beyond. At eleven o'clock one morning, the French army came under heavy concentrated fire from the Germans. The French held out for a time, but the Germans occupied the French positions.

 In the early morning of August 28, the Germans invaded from Bapaume and surprised the French troops in their posts around Peronne. The attack continued until August 29, when French troops were driven back from Manancourt, southwest of Bapaume, by German units. Further east, French troops on the left of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) failed to prevent the Germans from reaching the outskirts of Peronne on August 27.

 The French withdrew south of the Somme, and Peronne was reoccupied by the Germans on August 28. The German invasion continued toward Amiens, and on August 29, French troops reached Blay-sur-Somme, Signor, and Flamerville, all near Amiens. They counterattacked the German vanguard units. The German counterattack recaptured Ployard, and the French retreated south; on September 11, the Germans withdrew from Amiens, and on September 12, French troops arrived from Rouen, capturing a few remaining troops. French troops invaded northeast toward Peronne and Fricourt on September 17.

   Illustrated War News," the first issue of which appeared in August 1914, was a photo World War I weekly magazine published by the Illustrated London News and Sketch Company of London, England. The magazine consisted of 48 pages of articles, photographs, diagrams, and maps, and was printed in a horizontal format; from 1916, a vertical publication of about 40 pages was issued. It was reputed to have the most artist correspondents reporting on the course of World War I. Publication ceased in 1918.



Sunday, September 17, 2023

Three bodies dug up on March 2, 2023, lie in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, in the Russian-Ukrainian war. The bags containing the three unidentified bodies were transported to the morgue.

  Three freshly exhumed bodies lie in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, northwest of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, on March 2, 2023, during the Russo-Ukrainian War. A bag containing the three bodies was transported to the morgue immediately after they were exhumed. Their identities have not been confirmed.

 Towns and villages on the outskirts of the capital, Kiev, were briefly occupied on February 28 by Russian troops who invaded toward the outskirts of Kiev shortly after the outbreak of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022. He was buried in a makeshift mass grave. Ukrainian military authorities are still digging up the bodies of civilians hastily buried in makeshift graves almost a year after recapturing the Kiev suburb. Nearly 200 bodies remain unidentified, and some 280 people have been registered as missing. The total number of civilian bodies found in the Russian-occupied areas of the Kiev region is about 1,373, of which about 197 have not yet been identified.

 The Ukrainian military rescue team arrived in April 2022, after the Ukrainian army retook Borodianka. The rescue team dug through the rubble for about two weeks and exhumed about 15 bodies. However, they found no traces of the dozens of bodies that had been inside apartments and other buildings. There were rumors that Russian troops had forcibly taken about 100 or more people from Borodyanka residents to Belarus.

  Borodyanka was heavily bombed on March 1 and March 2, 2022 by Russian forces during the invasion of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian authorities, about 41 bodies were found under the rubble; the Russians, who were repelled from Kiev on March 26, withdrew from the area entirely on April 1; on May 6, local police reported the discovery of about 300 more bodies buried under Russian military occupation.














Warning: Men carry bags containing three freshly exhumed bodies in a cemetery on the outskirts of Borodyanka, Ukraine, Thursday, March 2, 2023. Nearly a year after towns and villages near Kyiv were retaken from Russian troops who had seized territory as they raced toward Kyiv at the start of their invasion of Ukraine, authorities are still exhuming the bodies of civilians hastily buried in makeshift graves. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Friday, September 15, 2023

This photo was taken on October 8, 1945, approximately two months after the Hiroshima atomic bomb was dropped, at the Fukuromachi Relief Hospital, where outpatients exposed to the bomb were treated. The Fukuromachi National School, located at a close distance of approximately 460 meters southeast of the hypocenter, played an important role in the relief efforts immediately after the atomic bomb was dropped.

    A patient being treated at the Fukuromachi Relief Hospital on October 8, 1945, about two months after the Hiroshima atomic bomb was dropped (Shunkichi Kikuchi). The Fukuromachi National School, located at a close distance of approximately 460 meters southeast of the hypocenter of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, played an important role in the relief efforts immediately after the bombing; the school building was completely destroyed by the Hiroshima atomic bomb after being expanded in 1937. The reinforced concrete buildings of the newly built West School survived with their outer shells intact. Of the approximately 160 children who remained at Fukuromachi Elementary School, which had not been evacuated, 157 died as a result of the atomic bombing, and 16 teachers and staff were also killed by the bomb. 3 children were exposed to the bomb inside the west school building and later evacuated to the basement, where they survived.

    On August 7, the day after the Hiroshima atomic bomb was dropped and exploded on August 6, the school was converted to a temporary relief station. On October 5, 1945, about two months later, the relief organization was changed and the Fukuromachi Relief Hospital was established as the Japan Medical Association Hospital. The number of relief stations in Hiroshima City was also reorganized into seven. By this time, the number of residents in Hiroshima had decreased and the number of outpatients had reached a critical point. As of October 5, there were 11 temporary first-aid stations in Hiroshima City, with approximately 500 inpatients and 1,200 outpatients exposed to the atomic bombing.

 Shunkichi Kikuchi took vivid photographs of the devastation in Hiroshima immediately after the bombing. The negative film of his photography survives in good condition and was kept by his wife Tokuko, who lives in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. The total number of A-bomb documentary photographs taken by a single photographer reached 783, the largest number ever recorded by a single photographer. He accompanied the documentary film production team of the "Special Committee for Investigation and Research on the Atomic Bomb Disaster," organized by the former Ministry of Education, and was in charge of taking still photographs from October 1 to October 20, 1945. He captured vivid scenes of the immediate aftermath of the atomic bombing, including patients with burns and radiation injuries receiving treatment at Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital and Hiroshima Telecommunications Hospital, and parents and children dying at Oshiba National School and Fukuromachi National School, which served as relief hospitals.



The Union of Peoples of Northern Angola(UPA) killed Africans who remained loyal to their white Portuguese employers on March 15, 1961, in Portuguese Angola due to the Angolan War of Independence in Africa.

     The Angolan War of Independence in Africa led to the murder in Portuguese Angola of Africans who remained loyal to their white Portuguese employers by the Angolan People's Alliance (UPA) on March 15, 1961, during the first months of the Angolan War from March 15 to July 8, 1961, The massacre was perpetrated by a brutal terrorist attack perpetrated by the UPA of Holden Roberto's armed forces.

  The colonial war in Angola was exposed with the publication by Horácio Caio in "Angola, Days of Despair (October 1961)", with brutal pictures of the massacres committed by the UPA against the civilian population of whites, blacks, women, children, elderly and defenseless people. Pictures were published of the many corpses of the victims of what became a blind and unchecked terrorist attack unleashed in the name of liberation. The Angolan War of Independence led to the outbreak of the colonial war from February 4, 1961 to April 25, 1974.

 On March 15, 1961, the Angolan People's Alliance (UPA) under Holden led an armed force of about 4,000 to 5,000 Angolans from their base in Zaire to invade northern Angola. Angolan People's Alliance troops took and occupied agricultural lands, government outposts, trading centers and colonial settlements, and commercial areas. They killed civilian civilians and government officials. Most of the victims were Ovimbundo contract laborers from the Central Highlands.UPA militants raided the Angolan districts of Zaire Province, Uige, Quanza Norte, and Luanda, slaughtering civilians during the invasion, 1,000 whites and 6,000 blacks (women and children were among them) murdered. They also included European whites and African black women and children. In addition to the carnage, UPA militants destroyed homes, farms, roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, causing general chaos and panic. Terrified residents took refuge in the forests or fled to neighboring areas and Congo-Leopoldville.

  On February 4, 1961, the starting point of the Angolan War of Independence, about 50 members of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola attacked a police station and St. Paul's prison in Luanda, Angola, killing about 40 attackers and seven Portuguese police officers. at the funeral of a Portuguese police officer on February 5. The revenge was terrible. The police helped massacre civilians in the slums of Luanda at night. The whites dragged the Africans from their fragile homes and left their bodies in the streets after shooting about 300 of them, the first starting point of a war that UPA would decimate the entire northern part of Angola on March 15.



Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Suspected assassins of Governor Reichard Heydrich were driven by the Gestapo, the German state secret police, into the Church of Cyrilos Methodius in Prague, Czechoslovakia, on June 18, 1942. The SS raided the building. Shortly thereafter, the assassins and all of the suspects were shot dead.

A group of suspects in the assassination of Governor General Reichard Heydrich were driven by the Gestapo, the Nazi German military's state secret police, into the Church of Cyrilos Methodius in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, on June 18, 1942. The SS (SS), under orders from Karl-Hermann Frank, raided the building. Shortly thereafter, the assassins and all of the suspects were shot dead. Later, the bodies were dragged out of the church into the open, surrounded and disrespected by the secret police and SS.

 In September 1939, Heydrich took control of the Nazi police department and transformed it into a powerful terror agency, the Reich Security Service (RSHA); on December 27, 1941, Heydrich was posted to the governorship of Prague; on December 15, he publicly executed resistance fighters with machine guns in the square beside the Prague Cathedral. Heydrich was dubbed the Butcher of Prague. He executed Czech Prime Minister Alois Elias on June 19, 1942.

 On May 27, 1942, at 10:32 a.m., an underground group in Prague blew up Heydrich's passenger car with a bomb belonging to Kubis. Gabczyk's Sten gun did not work. In the back of the truck, the wounded Heydrich was transported; on June 4 Heydrich died of infection from his wounds; eight assassins and resistance fighters were hiding in the crypt of the Greek Orthodox Church of Cyrilos Methodios; on June 18 an SS combat unit raided the crypt. It was littered with bloodied corpses that had been shot and bodies that had committed suicide.

 Martial law was imposed throughout Czechoslovakia after Heydrich's assassination, and the Gestapo, in revenge against Czech citizens for Heydrich's assassination, mass arrested some 13,000 people, executing about 600 of them for illegal possession of weapons. The village of Lidice, northwest of Prague, was destroyed on June 10, when some 199 men and boys over the age of 15 were executed, and women were deported to the concentration camp at Ravensbrück; on June 24, the village of Rejaki was destroyed, and all 33 adult men and women were shot dead; on June 25, the village of Lidice was destroyed, and all 33 adults, men and women, were shot dead.



During the Battle of Peleliu Island, Japanese soldiers, along with a Japanese tank unit, attempted to blow up an American position occupying an airfield. The Japanese soldiers and tanks were destroyed when the Americans counterattacked.

  During the Battle of Peleliu Island in the Pacific War, U.S. forces made a second forced landing at 8:30 a.m. on September 15, 1944. Japanese soldiers, along with tank units of the Japanese 14th Division, aimed to blow up the positions of the U.S. 1st Marine Division and Company G, 1st Marine Regiment, which were attempting to occupy the airfield. Conversely, the Japanese soldiers and tanks were destroyed in a counterattack by the Americans. The U.S. forces used several times as many men and material resources for the second landing than for the first. The Americans landed on the southwestern edge of the airfield at great cost. Accompanied by tanks, they invaded to the vicinity of the southeastern end of the airfield.

  The Americans used their 37-meter guns to fire on the Japanese tank columns assaulting the vast airfield. The Americans used anti-tank guns to eliminate the Japanese tanks. They also fired a volley of firebombs at Japanese soldiers trying to escape from the tanks, burning them to death. Burned to a crisp, the bodies of the Japanese tank crews tumbled to the ground.

  The American forces that landed on Peleliu Island aborted the first forced landing on September 15 at 6:15 a.m. and temporarily withdrew from the island after 8:00 a.m. The Japanese forces made three assaults on September 15, losing about one-third of a Japanese soldier for each assault. On the beaches, the battle became a white-knuckle battle so intricate that it was difficult to tell where the positions were. The soldiers of the U.S. Army's 1st Marine Division who landed on Peleliu Island faced an unexpected threat from the onslaught of Japanese soldiers hiding in positions on the beach. The Americans assumed that the Japanese positions had been destroyed by carpet bombing prior to the landing on Peleliu Island. Japanese soldiers charged the U.S. forces one after another as if they were rising from the depths of the earth.

   On the western coastline of Peleliu Island, which they called Orange Beach, Japanese troops sniped at the palm forests, confronting the American troops who had landed the first time. The Japanese forces hid in cave positions hollowed out of the rising coral mountains and then fired on them simultaneously. American soldiers found it difficult to advance or retreat, and were pinned to their positions on the front lines, suffering heavy casualties. After the Battle of Peleliu, the U.S. military named the west coast of the first landing Orange Beach. The blood of the U.S. soldiers turned the white coral beach orange. For the second forced landing, the Americans landed one after another from the southwestern edge of the airfield, bypassed the Japanese positions, and attacked from the direction of Tianshan.



Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Bodies of British and German troops were scattered during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium in 1915 on the Western Front of World War I. British soldiers search and autopsy the bodies of British soldiers in the trenches of Zouave Wood.

   During the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium in 1915 on the Western Front of World War I, the bodies of British and German soldiers killed in action were scattered in the Ypres Salient. British soldiers search for and autopsy the bodies of British soldiers in the trenches of Zouave Woods. The British 6th Division stormed the German trenches at Zouave Woods. British troops counterattacked and found the bodies of men who had been killed and fallen in the Battle of Zouave Woods. The small forest west of the Sanctuary Forest in Ypres Gorge was called Zouave Wood. Zouave was the name of a soldier in the French army's Zouave regiment. The Germans called the stream running through the forest from the Menin road north Zouave.

 The village of Hooge, about 5 km east of Ypres, was located in the middle of the infamous salient in the early stages of World War I. The salient was relentlessly held by the British throughout the entire duration of the Battle of Ypres, and following the Second Battle of Ypres, fought from April 22 to May 25, 1915, the first German poison gas attack was executed and a new front reorganized. The southern Berwalde Ridge, the village of Husi, Zouave Wood, and the Sanctuary Forest entered the front line and became the eastern edge of the entire salient. With the forced withdrawal of the allied forces, the front line ran roughly north-south through the village of Houge.

 It was the center of many savage battles that continued unabated throughout the Battle of Ypres. The village of Hughe had been under continuous bombardment since the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914. The ridge had been occupied and recaptured five times since April 1915. Since the end of the Second Battle of Ypres and the German victory, which included the Berwalde Ridge and Hughe Castle, the British were at a distinct disadvantage. By the end of the battle, the British had retreated to a new front about three miles from Ypres and compressed the surrounding thrusts.

 The Germans created instant hell with huge chlorine poison gas jets of liquid flame fired across trench craters against the British troops. A massive poison gas attack by the Germans during the Second Battle of Ypres on the Western Front took the Allies by surprise. About 7,000 people injured by poison gas were transported by field ambulances and treated in casualty camps. In Britain, about 350 deaths from gas poisoning were recorded in May and June. Both sides developed gas weapons and countermeasures that changed the course of the poison gas war.


 


Monday, September 11, 2023

American paratroopers invaded the battlefield of the Battle of Carentan in France on the Western Front of World War II on June 14, 1944. They passed the dead body of a soldier of an American unit who had been killed by a German sniper.

   American paratroopers invade the battlefield of the Battle of Carentan (Carentan), France, on the Western Front of World War II, on June 14, 1944, while keeping a wary eye on the battlefield. German snipers passed the body of an American soldier who had been killed by a German sniper. The bodies of American soldiers were scattered in a field near Carentan. Rows of low trees formed a hedge around the bodies.

  The Normandy landings on June 6, 1944, marked the beginning of a very long battle that lasted almost two and a half months. Allied forces fought the Germans, who took full advantage of the peculiar terrain. The liberation of Carentan in northeastern Normandy and the securing of the contact points for the Utah Beach and Omaha Beach landings, the intense fighting erupted from June 6 to June 13. The town of Carentan, surrounded by swamps, was the only crossing point, and the Germans were under strict orders to hold their positions. Heavy casualties were incurred by both American and German troops. American and German soldiers fought so closely that they could hear the enemy talking and weapons being held at the ready. Bodies were strewn everywhere and the wounded could be heard calling for help. American troops forced passage over the causeway to Carentan on June 10 and 11. The Germans were forced to withdraw on June 12 due to a shortage of ammunition. The Germans counterattacked on June 13, but withdrew.

 The Carentan hedgerows became one of the very difficult barriers that American paratroopers and infantry troops faced as they invaded the Normandy region toward the French interior. The French hedge, locally called a bocage, was a hedge of trees, shrubs, and bushes that had been growing for hundreds of years on top of an earthen mound about three meters or more in height. The Allied forces were not aware of the defensive hazards of hedgerows. German defenders placed snipers and machine guns in the hedgerows. The natural hedge barriers had a devastating effect, slowing the Allied forces and temporarily preventing them from penetrating inland on the Western Front. About 400 Americans and 800 Germans were killed in the Battle of Carentan.



Sunday, September 10, 2023

Numerous dead bodies of Russian soldiers were abandoned on the streets of Liman, Donbass, Ukraine, on October 4, 2022, after thoroughgoing by Russian troops. Numerous corpses of hapless Russian soldiers lay abandoned by Russian troops on a road in Sityniaky.

  Numerous dead bodies of Russian soldiers were abandoned on the streets of Liman, Donbass, Ukraine, on October 4, 2022, after the thoroughfare of the Russian army. Numerous corpses of hapless Russian soldiers lay on the road in Sityniaky. Liman was recaptured from the Russians on October 1 after a counterattack by Ukrainian forces.

  The independent Russian newspaper Verstoka stated on November 5, 2022, that about 570 Russian soldiers were shelled for three days by Ukrainian artillery, with only 40 survivors. They were thrown to the front lines, ordered to dig trenches, and had no support. Cannons, rockets, mortars, and helicopters bombed them mercilessly, survivors said.

  The Ukrainian Defense Ministry estimates that within about three weeks of 2023, more than 8,000 more Russian soldiers were killed in the Russo-Ukrainian war. from January 1 to January 13, about 8,170 Russian soldiers died. the war, which broke out on February 24, 2022, lasted about 11 months. The total number of Russian soldiers killed in the war during the 11-month period that began on February 24, 2022, is approximately 145,930. on January 13 alone, the report showed approximately 740 Russian soldiers killed in action. in the January 2023 period, an average of approximately 628 Russian soldiers per day were killed.

  The total number of deaths was calculated on January 13, when Russian troops won one of the bloodiest battles in the battle of Soredal, a Ukrainian salt mining town with a population of only 10,000. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on January 13 that the town of Soredal, which is crucial to the continued success of offensive operations in the direction of Donetsk Oblast, has been liberated. By taking control of the town of Soredal, Russian forces will be able to cut off supply routes for Ukrainian troops in southwestern Artyomovsk. The Russian military announced that constant bombardment of the Ukrainian army by Russian ground assault forces, army aviation, missile units, and artillery led to the overrunning of Soredal.

  The Washington-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said on January 12 that Russian military intelligence operations have overstated the importance of Soredal. White House national security spokesman John Kirby also said that the fall of both Bakhmut and Soredal to Russian forces would have no strategic impact on the war; on January 12, Soredal Mayor Kirilenko said nearly 559 civilians, including more than a dozen children, were trapped in the town. He said that Soredal civilians are trying to survive the bloodshed as Russian forces intensify their attacks.





















Warning: Bodies of Russian soldiers were abandoned by their troops after their retreat, on a street in Lyman, Donbas, Ukraine, on October 4, 2022. (ADRIEN VAUTIER / LE PICTORIUM POUR)

Friday, September 8, 2023

On October 15, 1945, two months after being exposed to the Hiroshima atomic bomb on August 6, 1945, signs of reconstruction appeared near Yokogawa Station, about 1,800 meters from the hypocenter. Barracks of temporary huts made of wood and tin sheets began to appear among the burnt rubble.

  On October 15, 1945, two months after the Hiroshima atomic bomb exploded on August 6, 1945, signs of reconstruction appeared near Yokogawa Station, located approximately 1,800 meters from the hypocenter. Barracks, temporary huts made of wood and tin sheets, began to appear among the burnt rubble, and a black market appeared in front of Yokogawa Station and other areas where people could easily gather. Although the temporary huts and black markets were accompanied by security and sanitation problems, they also symbolized the beginning of reconstruction. In the scene around Yokogawa Station, I photographed signs that the A-bombed city of Hiroshima and its citizens were beginning to recover.

 After the termination of the Wartime Disaster Relief and Protection Act, there was no special assistance for A-bomb survivors, and they could only rely on the general welfare system, such as the Public Assistance Act. Living in barracks built from materials left over from the fire, the survivors suffered from a shortage of supplies, making their lives extremely difficult. Barracks were the name given to temporary structures built on vacant lots or on burned-out areas after disasters. Hut-sized dwellings built by impoverished A-bomb survivors in vacant lots and other locations were called barracks. 


 At Yokogawa Station, the heat rays from the atomic bomb set one section of the station on fire, and within a few hours the station building was destroyed by fire. It is said that about 10 people were buried alive in the waiting room and only four were rescued, and on the day of August 6, a train carrying victims was operated amid the smoldering sleepers on the tracks. On August 8, two days after the bombing, the Sanyo Line of the Japan National Railways resumed operations between Hiroshima and Yokogawa stations. Immediately after the atomic bomb exploded, citizens of Hiroshima evacuated in the direction far from the hypocenter. Citizens near Yokogawa Station headed north, those near Hiroshima Station headed east or north, those near Hijiyama headed south or east, and some citizens headed in different directions due to family or work circumstances.

 For 75 years after the atomic bombing, it was rumored that nothing would grow in Hiroshima City. But Hiroshima did not die. Lifelines of transportation, communication, and electricity were quickly restored. People and supplies were transported. The supply of information and energy was also secured. The reality of the A-bomb survivors was not adequately conveyed, and discrimination and prejudice against them arose. The A-bomb survivors were trying their best to survive while enduring harsh living conditions.






On May 25, 1940, on the Western Front of World War II, German troops crossed the Sipdonk Canal at Dainze. During a firefight between Belgian and German troops, a German shell exploded in the presence of about 150 civilian hostages, killing 38 people.

 第二次世界大戦の西部戦線にて、1940年5月25日にドイツ軍はベルギーのダインゼ(Deinze)のシップドンク(Schipdonk)運河を渡ろうとした。ダインゼ都市の男性住民は生きた盾としてドイツ軍に人質に捕らえられた。ドイツ軍はダイゼン男性住民を、戦略的に重要な運河交差点を占領するための生きた盾にした。ベルギー軍とドイツ軍の間で、ファールトブルグ(Vaartbrug)川周辺にて激しい砲撃戦が行われた。5月25日の午後4時30分から午後5時の間に、ドイツ軍の砲弾がダイゼン住民の人質約150人の中央で爆発した。爆発でダイゼン民間人がなぎ倒された。その結果、約38人のダイゼン住民が砲弾の爆発に巻き込まれて死亡した。

 1940年5月10日の命令で、ドイツ軍がベルギーとオランダに侵攻が同時に開始された。ベルギー軍は抵抗するも、後退を余儀なくされた。5月24日には前線はシップドンク運河周辺まで侵攻した。5月25日に、ドイツ軍兵士はダインゼのシプドンク運河を渡河した。ベルギー軍とドイツ軍の砲撃戦の最中に、16時30分から17時の間に、約150人の人質がいる中でドイツ軍の砲弾が爆発して、38人が死亡した。 

 5月26日から侵攻は過激化し、報復攻撃が続いた。ドイツ軍兵の間では、民間ベルギー人がドイツ軍に発砲したという噂が流れた。メイゲムでは、住民が教会に追いやられ、人質として拘束された。1940年5月27日は、ヴィンクトとメイゲムにとって悲劇的な日となった。メイゲムの教会では、5月26日から数十人がドイツ軍兵の捕虜となって、午後の激しい爆発で、合計約27人の捕虜が殺害された。教会は戦列にあって、ベルギー軍の砲弾で犠牲となった。5月27日には、ドイツ軍はヴィンクト村を占領した。民間ベルギー人の攻撃の容疑の報復として、村の広場で合計38人が殺害れされた。5月27日に、ドイツ軍の砲撃や処刑によって合計約111人の市民が殺害された。5月28日にベルギー軍の降伏によって、18日間戦役のベルギー侵攻作戦は正式に終結した。べルギー侵攻のベルギー軍の死傷者は死者6,090人、捕虜200,000人、負傷者15,000人と推定された。ドイツ軍は死者約10,232人、行方不明者約8,463人、約42,500人の兵士が負傷した。





Thursday, September 7, 2023

After the Manchurian Incident, the Japanese Army's Kwantung Army took in the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed in a fierce battle near Daxing on November 5, 1931. The Kwantung Army surrounded the corpses with Hinomaru flags and conducted autopsies.

  Shortly after the Manchurian Incident, the Japanese Kwantung Army interned the corpses of Japanese soldiers killed in action in a fierce battle near Daxing on November 5, 1931. The Kwantung Army surrounded the corpses under the national flag of the Japanese flag and conducted autopsies on them. On November 4, 1931, the Kwantung Army clashed with the Chinese Army at Daxing. The Chinese forces met fierce resistance, and by November 5, Kwantung County was on the verge of total annihilation. The commander of the 16th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army was stopped by his men from committing seppuku. The crisis was averted on November 5 when reinforcements from the Japanese Army were dispatched.

 The Manchurian Incident, triggered by the Liujiaoho Incident on September 18, 1931, which blew up the Manchurian Railway, led to the outbreak of the Manchurian Incident until the Tanggu ceasefire agreement on May 31, 1933. This was followed by the outbreak of the Ludouqiao Bridge Incident on July 7, 1937, the starting point of the Sino-Japanese War, which led to the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in full swing. When the Manchurian Incident broke out, the Chinese army's Heilongjiang Provincial Army destroyed the railroad bridge over the New River, disrupting the railroad from Chichihar to Siping Street via Lunan and disrupting transportation. The Japanese Kwantung Army was dispatched to the vicinity of Daxing in the name of repairing the Manchurian Railway. Qiqihar was located approximately 270 km northwest of Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang Province, China.

 On November 2, Chinese troops had established a position around Daxing Station; on November 4, the Kwantung Army engaged the Chinese troops from their position on the riverbank plateau south of Daxing Station; on November 5, the Kwantung Army ran out of ammunition and bullets, and the battle line was at a standoff with casualties mounting. The Kwantung Army was attacked by Chinese troops from the flanks and abdomen, and the front line was shaken and retreated from the front. 3:00 p.m. on November 5, the Kwantung Army was ordered to dispatch reinforcements. Even at night, the attack by the Chinese forces did not cease, and the battlefield became a disastrous scene with many casualties. 6 November, from reinforcements by the Kwantung Army, the Chinese forces began to retreat, running north one after another. The Kwantung Army pursued them and took control of the Daxingbei area.



Wednesday, September 6, 2023

On August 20, 1925, 48-year-old Liao Zhongkai and 32-year-old Chen Qulin were on their way to a meeting at the KMT Central Party Headquarters when Liao Zhongkai was shot in the face and killed as soon as he got out of his car. He was assassinated in front of the heavily guarded KMT Central Party headquarters.

  On August 20, 1925, Liao Zhongkai, a Chinese democratic revolutionary, was assassinated in Guangzhou by the right wing of the Kuomintang; in April 1921, Sun Yat-sen established the Cantonese revolutionary government and appointed Liao Zhongkai as vice minister of finance; after the KMT was reformed in 1924, he was elected by Sun Yat-sen as a member of the executive committee of the Central Executive Committee. He had served as director of the Workers' and Peasants' Departments, KMT representative at the Huangpu Cadet School, provincial chief of Guangdong Province, director of finance, and commissioner of munitions. Chiang Kai-shek took advantage of the assassination of Liao Zhong-kai to seize military and political power in the Guangdong Nationalist government. Without any policemen guarding the main gate of the Central Party headquarters, the assassins fled without a trace. The assassinated Liao Zhongkai was taken to the hospital where he was admitted after his death: on August 20, 1925, 48-year-old Liao Zhongkai and 32-year-old Chen Qulin were on their way to a meeting at the Central Party headquarters when Liao Zhongkai was shot in the face and killed as soon as he got out of his car. He was assassinated in front of the heavily guarded KMT Central Party Headquarters.

 After the assassination of Liao Zhongkai, the KMT Central Executive Committee and the KMT Government Military Committee decided to organize a special committee to investigate the assassination. Chiang Kai-shek, who was invited to join the special commission, together with Wang Jing-wei, Xu Chong-chih, and others, took over the police authority from the political and military. Chiang Kai-shek was appointed commander of the Guangzhou garrison. After an investigation, Hu Hanmin, Xu Chongzhi, and others were suspected of being involved in this assassination of Liao Zhongkai and his wife, and were forced to leave Guangdong Province.

 Assassination is distinguished from murder and is limited in its scope of application. Assassination is the killing of an important political figure by illegal means for political purposes. Assassination can be broadly classified into the case where the party in power kills a political opponent in the broad sense, and the case where an anti-authority or anti-establishment faction kills the party in power, depending on the subject. Liao Zhongkai, a theorist from the KMT left faction who was a political opponent, was gunned down by the right faction within the KMT on August 20, 1925, and was succeeded by Chiang Kai-shek from the power side. Earlier, Chen Qimei, a key figure in the KMT, was assassinated by Yuan Shikai's assassins at the residence of Yamada Junzaburo in the French concession on May 18, 1916, and Chiang Kai-shek was declared the successor on the side of power. 



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