...that anyone who surrenders is worthless and should be treated like a slave. Changi was the one of the most infamous Prisoner of war camps. Although the camp was mainly run by Korean guards, it was completely under the influence of the Japanese Imperial Army. The camp was used to imprison thousands of Malayan civilians and allied soldiers. Within the first few months of the camp's...
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...The Alamo Scouts Task was to report information, gather atmospherics, and be the overall eyes on the objective for LTC Mucci. Their purpose was to give the Commander the most up to date information so he could change to the plan, if need be, and to make better informed decisions. The Filipino Guerrillas blocked the enemy IOT allow the Rangers and POWs a safe withdrawal from the objective. The purpose was to stop the enemy’s ability to reinforce the prison camp and was scheduled to end once the last Ranger element crossed the Papanga River and fired a flare. 1st Platoon Charlie Company's task was to breach the front gate of the Japanese prison compound. The purpose was to allow 2nd Platoon Charlie Company to secure the POWs and evacuate them....
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...Son Tay Raid - Background: In 1970, the US had identified the names of over 500 American POWs who were being held by the North Vietnamese. Sources reported that these prisoners were being held in atrocious conditions and were being cruelly treated by their captors. That June, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Earle G. Wheeler, authorized the formation a fifteen-member planning group to address the issue. Operating under the codename Polar Circle, this group studied the possibility of conducting a night raid on a North Vietnamese POW camp and found that an attack on the camp at Son Tay was feasible and should be attempted. There had been more than 500 identified American Prisoners of War held by the North Vietnamese. There were reports that the prisoners were held in terrible conditions and constantly tortured. The...
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...Moreover, The article provides exact facts and details about the two years Louie was missing, and corroborates the sheer improbability of his survival. The article continues to describe the dreadful conditions that Louie and his crew mates experienced, one of which was extreme starvation, which can be described by this quote from the newspaper: “When the Japanese fishermen captured him and Lieutenant Phillips in the Marshalls, he weighed only 87 pounds.” They also provided details to how the men survived the days at sea by catching birds and using their meat as bait for fish. The article also describes Louie’s time at the POW camps and how there was a guard, nicknamed “The Bird” by Louie and his fellow inmates, who was very keen on making Louie miserable. This cruelty can be emphasized by the fact that “The Bird” once forced every single one of the prisoners at the camp to punch Louie in the face; this beating lasted over a day and left Louie without being able to move his jaw for two...
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...Louie’s worst demon that plagued him in the POW camp was Mutsuhiro Watanabe, also known as “The Bird.” The Bird was a man who treated others like animals. Their punishments were abusive and inhumane. Louie, along with other POW’s, had scars that to some seemed impossible to heal, but Louie remained unbroken. Even with constant abuses from The Bird, he continued to resist and defy him. His spirit never withered away, but persisted. His experiences led him on the path of forgiveness and allowed him to confront his demons once again. Louie wrote a final letter to The Bird and expressed that through God all the “[l]ove replaced the hate [he] had for [him]”(Hillenbrand 405). His ability to be able to let go of his resentment towards his torturers ended a chapter of helplessness and opened a chapter...
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...The events of the “Rape of Nanking” The raping of nanking is the most unknown event in history. The rape of nanking was an example of gendercide against men & women . It’s mainly known for the mistreatment done to the women. They were brutally injured ,traumatized or killed. Defenseless men were made POWs, murdered or used for bayonet practice. They were also burned and buried alive. The raping of nanking violates human rights because no one is subjected to torture or cruel inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment. This event violated article 5. (Source 8) Japan & China had several feuds prior to this incident. Japan and China went to war in 1884 to gain control of China’s trading ports. Between 1899 and 1907 a city called the Hague in netherlands agreed to to prohibit the mistreatment of POWs and civilians. By the 1930s Japan thought it was their destiny to conquer China. Refugees tried to escape crossing the Yangtze river. Due to no transportation they were trapped on the east bank, many tried to swim across. Japanese soldiers arrived firing several shots. A Japanese soldier reported he had seen an estimate of 50,000 bodies adults & children. (Source 2)...
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...The Morality of Torture The authority of using torture as a punishment in the past has been a cause for conflict. Today, some people see torture as an efficient form of punishment; they believe it is especially necessary in the treatment of terrorist prisoners or prisoners for the purpose of pulling information. Some writers make up fake situations to blow the advantages of torture out of proportion, claiming that it is danger free, low cost and useful for getting fast response. However, after carefully thinking through the arguments used by many torture supporters, one will figure out that the arguments of torture supporters are false. Writers who support torture show less logic, but rather offended anger to evil violence. The use of torture as а form of punishment should be prohibited because contrary to the arguments of torture supporters, it does not serve а purpose, is against international law, and will only perpetuate hatred and retaliation. (Davis) According to, the International Statuette, Torture is any kind of use of force, mental or physical used on a human being to gain third party information or self-confession. No country prefers to use it but is forced to do in order to safeguard the lives of its citizens and smoothen justice. (Greenberg) Most criminal suspects go through some level of torture. Torture may involve Physical methods like starvation, beatings, burning, sodomy as well as psychological methods such as verbal abuse, solitary confinement, and sleep...
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...In an excerpt from “Serving in Florida,” a chapter in Nickel and Dimes: On (Not) Getting By in America (2001), Barbara Ehrenreich suggests that the low-wage American workplace strips people of their courage and character until they are nothing but a shell of themselves, working shift after shift in a Zen-like emptiness. Ehrenreich supports her claim by describing her experience working at Jerry’s under stringently cruel management to illustrate how she felt “stripped naked by [her] crazed enforcer[s]” and their ridiculous rules; by using metaphor and hyperbole to compare working in a low-wage job to being a prisoner at a POW camp to emphasize how the need for some income, however little it may be, demands a job that reduces its workers to prisoners...
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...would be someone being confined for performing and being convicted of a crime on the evening news to reading an article in the newspaper about a local figurehead being placed there because of some type of inappropriate actions either in office or outside of it. Back in the day, it was very out of place to hear about someone being locked up and having the proverbial key thrown away but now it seems like an occurrence in our lives. Where did the concept of the modern day penitentiary come from? Why do we practice this form of punishment today? This is what I will attempt to answer. To understand our current prison system and how it operates, we have to look back at the past. Originally, the penitentiary began as an set of principles whose purposes were both secular and spiritual, a type of place that would have humane punishment instead of the abusive and labor-heavy environment that you would find over in foreign countries, primarily in the western hemisphere. Over in the west, they used the aspect of physical punishment to expedite the sentences of criminals with serious charges against them, rather than wait for them to appear in front of a judge. Their philosophy in confinement involved having the inmates all being in the same living quarters and using a lot of the same facilities such as the bathroom, etc. The penitentiary here in the states was designed to be a place where the inmates were separated from themselves in isolation usually from the others; the facility was to be...
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...Unit 731, chemical weapon subject When Japanese Imperial Army took metal, they also took young female for their own purposes. First of all, high ranking officers of the Japanese Imperial army did biological experiments for their baleful chemical weapons like poison gas and burned the people in Manchuria. For example, Dissection of the person with reveal disease is to check how disease influence the person by seeing the stomachs, heart, and liver. Japanese soldiers cut the arms and legs for researching how haemorrhaging effects the person. Some body parts were iced for researching decomposition of the body part when person is alive. Some of the people’s brains and lungs, livers were removed. They removed whole skin from a...
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...the company and latter find out after a wonderful meal by Kat that the cruel Corporal Himmelstoss has come to fight at the front. Back to war the men go on a mission and it was blood shed men dying all around them. Back at camp the men recuperate thinking of better times and their futures but to them the war seems like the only thing inn their future. Paul realizes in battle he must put all his human like inhibitions aside and become a savage to stay alive as men fall to their death everywhere he looks only thirty two men live of the 6 dozen. Paul and his friends run into beautiful women while taking a swim but Paul cannot look past what he has done and what he has become to have fun. Finally the light at the end of the tunnel Paul receives a letter allowing him to visit his family, but soon realize he cant talk about the horrors of war with any one their. At home he finds out his mother is dying of cancer which hurts him greatly, but some satisfaction come while being at home when he hears his old teacher has been sent papers to join the war, the same one that made the war sound so glorious. He also is able to go see Kemmerich's mother and let her know her sons death was painless. During the end of his visit Paul is able to spend time near a Russian POW camp he sees them as people just like him not enemies and wonders how war can do this to the human race. Paul returns to battle when the German emperor comes along side the company all the men are disappointed in the man. Paul...
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...International Humanitarian Law – jus in bello 1. Geneva Conventions The law in this area is covered by the four Geneva Conventions, signed in 1949 after the atrocities of WW2 and two additional protocols signed in 1977. 1. Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (GC I) 2. Geneva Convention on the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (GC II) 3. Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GC III) 4. Geneva Convention on the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GC IV) Protocols of 1977 – in response to the conflict in Vietnam 1. Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Additional Protocol I) 2. Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts (Additional Protocol II) 2. International Armed Conflict – application of the GC’s • International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) states that an armed conflict within the meaning of the Geneva Conventions is any difference of opinion between two states that leads to intervention or action by the members of their armed forces • Common Article 2 of GC (ie in all of them) states that it will apply: o To all cases of war, and armed conflict between two or more parties to the treaty (even if “the state of war” is not recognised by one of them) o To all cases of partial or total occupation of the territory...
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...mortification processes that effect members of the institution. While this concept has been used by many researchers and writers, it lacks scientific methods and measurements of data collection and may contain biases. However, this does not discredit Goffman’s model but instead can be used as a starting point for researchers looking to gain an understanding of the relationship between society and self. When I first read Goffman’s essay it astounded me. Undoubtedly, some of the literary power in his essay comes from the use of evocative language and metaphors. Goffman believed total institutions are a form of resocialization and can have an adverse effect on the person’s sense of self. According to Goffman, asylums are comparable to concentration camps, prison and jails in the fact that they share many totalistic features and act as a barrier between society. Since rehabilitation is typically a goal of total institutions, Goffman argues that this form of bureaucratic organization is counterproductive. From what I have learned from reading One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the connection seems to be eminent. During this time, asylums were commonly used for treatment of mental disorders. On top of that, studies show that the institutions were highly corrupted and enforced inhuman treatments on the patients. While mental institutions are still used today in society, the stigma attached to them makes people apprehensive to engaging in this type of treatment. Society’s view of mental institutions...
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...Principle of Terrorism Terrorists always justify the means by the end 1) No matter how horrific the act it is justifiable to the terrorists as a means to achieve their goals. 2) Common concepts of law, ethics, morality, logic or religion do not apply to terrorists. 3) The creation of terror, mass hysteria and to demonstrate the powerlessness of government are all designed to force submission to the terrorist goals. 4) Terrorists do not view themselves as terrorists. 21 July 1972 - "Bloody Friday" An IRA bomb killed 11 and injured 130 people in Belfast, Northern Ireland. 10 days later 3 car bomb attacks in the village of Claudy left 6 dead. 5 September 1972 - "Munich Olympic Massacre" 8 Palestinian "Black September" terrorists seized 11 Israeli athletes in the Olympic games being held at Munich, West Germany. In a bungled rescue attempt by West German authorities 9 of the hostages and 5 terrorists are killed. Terrorists may or may not have the ability to carry out their act. 1) If the terrorist does not have to have the ability to carry out the act they only need to convince you that they have the ability (hoax). 2) May result in backlash against the terrorist group if the attack is too horrific. 3) Sometimes by forcing the government to take protective measures the terrorist can gain publicity and effect the public without actually launching an attack. Effects of September 11th 1) ARNG guards the airports...
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...active on the 25th of February 1943. Initially, the 187th was assigned at Fort Mackall, North Carolina for their initially infantry training and afterwards were moved to Fort Polk, Louisiana for their glider training. From Fort Polk, the 187th then moved to stage themselves at Camp Stoneman, California where they would depart to New Guinea. The 187th arrived in New Guinea on the 29th of May 1943 to become part of the New...
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