Obama Hiroshima Give-Aways (Part 2)

Two A-Bombs were dropped. One on Hiroshima 6th August 1945 and the other Nagasaki 3 days later. Japan surrendered on 15th August 1945.

Britain had loose-ends to tie up in Europe after Germany's surrender on 7th May 1945 and could only afford to ship Lord Louis Mountbatten out to Singapore to formally accept the Japanese Surrender on 12th September 1945. A limbo state of no government in Singapore existed for about a month.

During WW2 my mother worked in a food trading company in Segamat, a buzzling town 180 km north of Singapore. Segamat is a centralised location for the hinterland food produce in the state of Johore in Malaya.

When the war ended, my mother joined an euphoria of friends to travel down to Singapore. She and her gang of friends became first-hand eyewitnesses to the Allied Landing in Singapore. They also witnessed the release of Australian POWs from Changi Prison Camps.

Even though supplies had been airdropped to them, these POWs were still in a horrible state from their brutal imprisonment and looked like the tortured and severely starved victims of the Holocaust, my mother recalled. My mother at 93 today is still very lucid, living on a British pension. I welcome any journalist who may wish to interview her.

As the POWs poured out into the streets of Singapore after the arrival of the Indian Regiment, the cheering locals feted them. Most were wobbling around and could hardly walk. A few were gorging themselves on bananas and literally dropped dead on the street. With the long period of starvation, one cannot suddenly over eat. 

Here is where good Data Harvest (my previous post) practices come in. There are websites that ridiculously play down the Barbarity of the Japanese War Crimes. One of them claimed that the Australian POWs in Changi Singapore were "relatively comfortable". It argued and justified that the POWs were starved because Japanese soldiers too were starving with rations cut at that time.

My mother was incensed when she first heard about this. She asserted that she and her team at the Food Trading Company in Segamat processed many wagon loads of food daily which were transported by the effective railway system the British had built, to the Japanese Military Junta in Singapore up to the very moment of the Surrender.

These type of websites are part of the larger machinery orchestrated at Ministerial level of the Japanese Government to erase the Brutality of their War Crimes in Asia. It had even sunk as low as to edit out their Atrocities in their school history textbooks, which was protested by many Asian Governments and Victims Activists.

Australia sought to prosecute the horrible Japanese War Crimes committed on their POWs in Singapore, Burma and Thailand, but, were hindered in their pursuit when Truman ceased all War Crimes proceedings against Japan from 1949 onwards to re-build Japan.

Obama has once again as a US President denied the Australian POWs and their families Justice and Dignity by visiting the Memorial in Hiroshima when the Japanese had not repented but instead indignantly continue to actively promote their cover-up of their Atrocities and Barbarities.

To be continued in Part 3. Truman's contrite role in pardoning Emperor Hirohito and re-building Japan.