When cruelty, atrocity and inhuman treatment is meted out on fellow human beings be it in the name of war on a country or as small as violence in the street, the oppressor repents his sin very rarely, almost never. We can be 100% sure, Pakistan will never repent for the millions that were murdered on the Direct Action day or the Congress party repent for the sikh massacre or the Kashmir political parties for fellow Kashmiri Pandits forced displacement or the Sri Lankan government upon war crimes. As a nation Japan still mourns for nuclear bombings but not so much on the wartime cruelty her army unleashed on the Chinese and others. I wonder if the japanese kids even know such things happened in the past. The world has moved on. Here is a comment in imdb I am compelled to agree with: // The interesting contrast between the German and Japanese atrocities is that the German stuff was much more hidden. People have the impression that the holocaust was openly known to everyone, but the Germans took great pains to tell the population that they were shipping undesirables off to newly conquered territory to the east, to live seperately from Germans. Whereas the the Japanese, their atrocities were rarely hidden. Entire military units would make a contest out of beheading prisoners. Theyd round up women and children into a tall building and set it on fire and watch them jump from the roof in desperation. Their newspapers would cover these incidents and it would be celebrated back home. Not to downplay the evil of the Germans at all, but the Japanese never get their due - I consider them to be as evil or more than the Germans, but you almost never hear about it, whereas youve heard about the holocaust at least 100,000 times in your life. In addition to that, the official policy in Japan is dangerously close to the equivelant of holocaust denialism, whereas at least the Germans are thoroughly ashamed and sorry for what they did. // This movie The Railway Man is an emotional drama about Japanese cruelty towards British soldiers. The story is not so well paced but the theme and cinematography is pretty good. I was reading through the forums and found another point of interest: //Until very recently, if you opened a high school history book in most of the South (my experience was Texas and Alabama), it would list slavery as -not- being a primary cause for the Civil War. Something called States Rights would be #1. Thats denial. // imdb/title/tt2058107
Posted on: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:42:25 +0000
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