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Filipinos deserve public apology from Japan for experimenting on them during WW II, not JPEPA

Leftist activists belonging to Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) on Sunday urged the Japanese government to state a public apology for treating Filipinos during World War II as objects of medical experiment and later killed them.

“ The victims of Japanese occupation forces deserve justice and public apology from Japan for their crimes against the Filipino people and definitely not the one-sided trade pact being peddled by Japanese-owned transnational giants,” Pamalakaya national chair Fernando Hicap said in a press statement.

“ The Japanese government should atone for its unforgettable crimes against the Filipino people by sending public apology coupled with justice and compensation for their victims and quit from pushing their millennium agenda like the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement which is as brutal as their war crimes against our countrymen,” Hicap added.

Pamalakaya believed that the Japanese imperial army experimenting on biological warfare injected Filipino prisoners of war with typhus, cholera and other diseases, the same medical experiment they did in Harbin, China under the Japanese Imperial Army Unit 731.

A report from the Associated Press said that the Japanese navy conducted surgical training on Filipinos, including women and children, during the Second World War and then killed them, according to Akira Makino, a former navy medic deployed in Mindanao.

The Japanese medic revealed that about 30 Filipinos were operated as part of the medical training before strangled to death between December 1944 and February 1945. He said operations performed on the victims include severing legs and arms and abdominal surgery, and in some cases after their faces were covered with a cloth and sprayed either with ether.

Makino came out into the open to reveal the Japanese imperial crimes more than 60 years after World War II and the Japanese colonial rule in the Philippines. The Japanese medic now living in Japanese city of Hirakata said he came forward because of nightmares after keeping the secret for more than six decades.

“ Students of history and advocates of true blue patriotism should not forget these brutal and gruesome crimes perpetrated by the Japanese imperial army in the country. It is one of the major reasons why we should keep up the fight against Japan and the United States for making us the biggest casualty of unjust war between two imperialist countries,” Hicap said.

Pamalakaya argued that after using Filipinos as experiment for biological warfare during World War II, Japan will now convert the country into one of its biggest dumpsites of toxic wastes and surplus substandard food under JPEPA recently submitted by Malacañang for Senate deliberation and approval.

The militant group is expected to highlight their fight against JPEPA during their weeklong protest in Cebu from December 10-14 coinciding with the staging of the 12th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit. Aside from JPEPA, Pamalakaya, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and International League of Peoples Struggles (ILPS) will also banner the issues regarding US war of terror and intervention the Philippines and the spate of political killings of leftwing activists and journalists across the country. #

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