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MAEGAWA 420 - 6 Jan - Statement of Murata About 22-23 June, at the Legal Section Staff Office, after lunch, D, a 1st Lt. in the WA Medical Corps, in a lowered voice, told Murata that he had, several days previously, witnessed a most terrible thing, an autopsy on a living human. He further related that injured prisoners were taken to KIU for treatment, put under ether, operated on and killed before regaining consciousness. |
This book documents the legal proceedings of the December 1949 Khabarovsk trial in which twelve members of the Japanese Army's covert biological warfare Unit 731 were prosecuted for their war crimes. The trial sought to hold key leaders in Japan's bio-weapons program accountable for atrocities after WWII.