Few are those who recognize the enormous capacity that human experiments possess, however, the interest that people show for such singular topics derives from the need that an individual has of knowing about his past, why he is nowadays they prohibit these types of practices and know what these experiments were as extravagant as atrocious.
That is why today I have brought you a documented investigation related to the exploration of human history, located more precisely in one of the most striking events of our society, and that uncovers with certainty the capacity that human beings have in yes to harm their fellowmen, even if necessary, reach a point little known at present in which individuals come to madness through physical, psychological suffering, and who knows what other forms they used to achieve this end.
PROGRAM STRUCTURE
The 731 Squadron commanded by Lieutenant General Shirō Ishii was one of the most atrocious programs that was developed during the Second World War with the participation of the Japanese Imperial Army, this was a program whose purpose was to achieve Japanese supremacy in order to end The war and for this, they would use nothing more and nothing less than the research and construction of biological weapons capable of devastating mainly the American people.
Its ringleaders would be the already named Lieutenant General Shirō Ishii, Lieutenant Colonel Ryoichi Naito, the well-known Dr. Masaji Kitano and a dome full of lieutenants and soldiers selected by Shirō Ishii personally.
These men decided to experiment with prisoners of war to reach their goal and it must be recognized that many of these prisoners would die in disturbing and painful ways because, in most of their surgeries or physical investigations, the body of scientists did not allow the participation of anesthesia or some other chemist who calmed his sufferings.
Its location was the district of Pingfang northeast of Harbin and what happens, its facilities were initially camouflaged to avoid enemy intervention because the experiments that were carried out in this place went against any ethics or morals coming from medicine.
Many of the soldiers who served as scientists in these facilities were disciplined and trained for the first time because they avoided psychological conflict because they were the ones who prepared them to maintain their future functions.
EXPERIMENTS CARRIED OUT BY THE SQUADRON
Firsthand they had among their habits the vivisection of the patients, that is, they were dissected even in life and without any anesthesia because, wishing to document the reaction of an individual to undergo incredible cups of pain, these were generally made to prisoners who had infected with severe diseases, wanted to increase the mortality rate and effectiveness of these same diseases and to achieve this goal, carried out this type of studies in both men and women, both children and infants and yes, this far exceeded the methodology applied by the Nazis or even the so-called "Angel of Death" Josef Mengele.
I must clarify that there is no true record of the 731 Squadron exchanging knowledge with their allies the Germans because, according to Shirō Ishii these were delayed in this type of experiments compared to the Japanese.
Invasive surgeries were often performed in order to study the effects that the diseases previously provided in the patients caused in their anatomy, in different documents it is determined that for the scientists these patients were called Maruta, that is, simple reusable wood and in fact , were responsible for sowing in their apprentices and scientists that inhuman idea.
Pregnant women or newly extracted fetuses, amputated limbs or limbs joined in different areas of the body, also organs extracted and anatomically relocated in extravagant places were some of the practices performed during vivisection, and I must remember that this was done without any anesthesia and among its prisoners were the Chinese, the Koreans, the Russians and even the Mongols, who entered the facilities to never leave again.
They experimented with germs and chemical weapons, diseases such as Cholera, Carbunco, Tuberculosis, Bubonic Plague and others were some to which they subjected their patients, also sought to spread them through rats and fleas that in fact, they almost get it had it not been by the end of the war.
However, they reached to spread through Parasites, contaminated supplies or infected clothing of these same diseases to a considerable number of human beings because, these epidemics caused the death of about 400,000 Chinese because they had passed the testing phases.
Some experiments were less focused on the spread of diseases, we saw different methods of suffocation, the introduction of air into the arteries to cause embolisms, the practice of drowsiness or famine, vacuum chambers, freezing, psychological and physical torture, spread of gangrene, incinerations and others.
Probably none of you dear readers will have imagined that this kind of things were done in the world, but it happens that lies in the phrase "learn from your mistakes" the own catastrophe of humanity, they will have already thought that something that was forbidden is because it has been practiced and has had atrocious results, because here is a new way to interpret this statement, hence the ability of each person is determined, what he is able to do to fulfill what he thinks is right.
At the end of the war the Russians went to the facilities of the 731 squadron and these reacted immediately, they looked for the escape and burned their experimental files, burned the facilities and murdered the patients who were still alive, and from here lies a sad true then ... although some could be rescued in the future, hundreds of lost files simply and plainly meant that the loss of human lives without any sense, ceased to have a purpose and was simply determined to be sacrifices made in vain.
The 731 squadron spread throughout Japan and Lieutenant General Shirō Ishii at the hands of other squad leaders were arrested at the end of World War II, were to be interrogated by the Soviets but, in exchange, negotiated in 1946 a total immunity the war crimes before the Tokyo court in exchange for all the data collected from those destroyed files, one might think that the United States would intercede but it is not, in fact, it benefited from this data due to the low budget that was applied and the fact that they did not experiment with humans.
Questions of the day:
What is your position before human experiments?
What do you think encourages a person to exercise these types of actions?
Why did the squad members accept these methodologies?
Do you think it was a good for humanity?
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original publication: https://steemit.com/historia/@niuwaku/la-crueldad-humana-el-escuadron-731
