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Unit 516 - Inhuman WMD Chemical Warfare

This WMD Chemical Warfare is definitely the worst crime case of
systematic
chemical massacre against Humanity committed by a country in our Human
History.


Japan refused to acknowledge formally that WMD Chemical Weapon were
used,
despite the discovery of huge quantity left behind.


In Feb. 2000, a road construction team discovered about 20,000 WMD
Chemical Weapon metal canisters lay buried atop the Yellow Beard
Mountain,
Nanjing, showing for the first time that Japanese forces deployed WMD
Chemical Weapon during their invasion of the Chinese capital where
Japan
committed its infamous Nanjing Massacre in 1937.


The size of the WMD Chemical Weapon, experts say, is enough to put
Yellow
Beard Mountain near the top of the list of places around the world.


Most startling is the fact that the stockpile in Nanjing represents
just a
tiny fraction of the WMD Chemical Weapon in China left behind by
Japanese
army.


Only in November 1995, after US declassified documents pertaining to
the
weapons, did the Japanese government admit that it had used "lethal
gases". according to a report in 2001 by the International Institute
for
Strategic Studies in London.


During the final weeks of WWII, Japanese lmperial Army truckloaded
thousands of WMD Chemical Weapons, including mustard gas and another
lethal toxin and dumped them into the Nen River, northeast China. The
dumping was part of a secret campaign to erase evidence of Japan's
Chemical War against China.


Only recently the Japanese government begun to admit to their work on
these weapons of mass destruction by Unit 516, Japan's top-secret WMD
Chemical Weapons research facility in Qiqihar, China.


On Aug. 12, 1945 former soldier Masaji Takahashi, now a 77-year-old
retired barber, supervised the disposal of WMD chemicals in the Nen
River.
The order, recalled Takahashi in 1998, "was to throw them from the
bridge"
into Nen River.


Japanese WMD dumping was much worse and harmful than the U.S. dumped
WMD
Chemical Weapons off foreign countries' shores.


In 1929, in defiance of the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning WMD Chemical
Weapons, Japan seceretly began building a production facility so secret
that its location, Okunoshima Island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture,
was erased from unclassified Japanese maps. Dubbed "Island of Great
Hardships".


The facility had 6,000 workers and produced toxins 1,200 tons annually
for
7.5 million weapons. Gases were also injected into shells and bomb
casings
at the Sone Armory in Fukuoka Prefecture; and the navy's WMD chemical
weapons plant was located in Samukawa, Kanagawa Prefecture.


Prior to 1945, Japan produced an estimated 7,000,000 chemical
munitions,
for which 4,000,000 are currently unaccounted.


Yoshiaki Yoshimi, professor of modern and contemporary Japanese history
at
Chuo University, based on the incomplete declassified U.S. Army
documents
at the National Archives in Washington D.C. and a six-volume
intelligence
report on Japanese chemical warfare, compiled by the General
Headquarters
of the U.S. Army Forces Pacific in May 1946, he has estimated Japan had
produced 1,646,326 units of WMD chemical weapons from 1938 through
1943.


Keiichi Tsuneishi, professor at Kanagawa University, obtained a copy of
10
papers from a former Imperial Army officer. The documents indicate that
Japan had produced 5.18 million poison gas shells (6.100 tons of poison
gas) between 1931 and 1945 on Okuno Island in Hiroshima Prefecture.


In 1931, the "Hardships" spread to China. Japan invaded Manchuria, a
resource-rich industrial region, and established Unit 516 staffed with
3,000 personnel in Qiqihar to develop and test a modern chemical
arsenal.
The facility perfected a variety of chemical weapons, from deadly smoke
"candles" to chemical grenades, mortars and heavy artillery - all
manufactured with Okunoshima's poisons.


Japanese troops used these WMD chemical weapons almost from the day
they
started full invasion in China 1937. They launched 375 separate
chemical
attacks in a four-month campaign to conquer Wuhan.


Benjamin C. Garrett, one of the world's leading experts in Chemical
Weapons, has visited China. He has found 6 types of gases the Japanese
used in WMD Chemical Weapons against Chinese: 1.        Phosgene
2.      Hydrogen Cyanide
3.      Bromobenzyl Cyanide and Chloroacetophenon
4.      Diphenyl-cyanoarsine and Diphenylchloroarsine
5.      Arsenic Trichloride
6.      Sulfur Mustard and Lewisite

According to Peter O'Meara Evans author of BICC Paper13: Destruction of
Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China, estimated that Japan during its 14
years brutal WWII invasion in China, had used Chemical Weapons in China
more than in any other country and Japan had used WMD Chemical Weapons
in
889 - 2,900 battles in China.


After the war, China began gathering Japanese abandoned WMD chemical
weapons (for details, see Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China and also
Abandoned and Old Japanese Chemical Weapons) and burying them in remote
Dunhua County, in Haerbaling, Jilin province. The 2 large pits,
interred a
vast stockpile of munitions: 670,000 artillery and mortar shells, smoke
canisters, huge drums of chemicals.


It is now Asia's most dangerous dump. The two massive pits contain more
than half a million munitions shells. Official warned that an
accidental
explosion in Dunhua would kill everything, even grass, within a 200
kilometer radius.


According to a Chinese report : Some information on discovered chemical
weapons abandoned in China by a foreign state, chemical ordnance in
varying amounts has been found in few other provinces (Jilin, Sangdon,
Hebei, Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia etc).


It has been estimated that 700,000 - 2,000,000 Chemical Bombs most of
them
loaded with mustard gas and many of them corroded and leaking, are
still
scattered in China.


Japan has an obligation to remove these weapons within 10 years, under
the
terms of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
(OPCW),
which came into effect in April 1997.


OPCW reaffirmed in May 2000 that it held Japan responsible for
destroying
all these abandoned deadly WMD chemical weapons and Abandoned and Old
Japanese Chemical Weapons.


The chemical warheads have continued to injure and kill, harming as
many
as 2,000 Chinese and damaging the environment. The rotten chemicals
leaked
from these munitions are continuing to pollute people's health, rivers
and
underground waters.


China is now home to the world's largest chemical weapons cleanup
campaign
for 700,000 - 2,000,000 Chemical Bombs.


" This is something that has been done before, but NOT on that scale,"
said Abu Talib, a chemical weapons expert from Mitretek Systems in
Falls
Church, Va. in U.S., " Most of the Chemical Weapons around the world,
you're talking hundreds and thousands -- NOT such a huge pile."


Whether such a monumental task can be completed by 2007, the deadline
imposed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,
remains to be seen because Japan has been slow in this chemicals
cleanup
despite its promise.


Japan's agreement to clean up the arms also came after years of
contention
and negotiation hampered by Tokyo's long refusal to acknowledge
formally
that such munitions were used, despite the discovery of so many left
behind. The difficulty of the decommissioning project in China is
compounded by the leftover weapons' age, condition, mixed content and
sheer quantity.


However, some progress has been made. For details, refer to October
2002
report by the Abandoned Chemical Weapons (ACW) Office : Outline of the
Project for the Destruction of Abandoned Chemical Weapons (ACW) in
China
(ACW Destruction Project).


Jun 6, 2005 Japan finally decided to spend US$1.9 billion to build a
factory in China to dispose its WMD Chemical Weapons abandoned in WWII.



Japanese freelance director Tomoko Kana, who recently completed a
doucmentary film From the Land of Bitter Tears said, "The abandoned
weapons issue is little known in Japan," she said, "The way Chinese
people
feel about this issue is very similar to how Japanese feel about North
Korea's abductions of Japanese."


In 1995, road workers accidentally set off an abandoned WMD Chemical
Weapon, killing 2 people and injuring several others.


Min Liu whose father was killed in 1995 by Japanese abandoned artillery
shell, was hoping of becoming a school teacher, but instead she has
since
been working at her relative's cafeteria to pay off her father's
medical
bills.


The film captured the emotional Liu and 3 other victims from separate
incidents has been on, including the scene of Liu giving a tearful hug
to
her mother while the mother burst into tears, confessing that she
pulled
the plug on her injured husband because family could not pay the
medical
bills and thus took him out of the hospital. He died the following day.



Aug 13, 2003 A scrap metal collector in Northeastern China, Qiqihar had
mistakenly uncovered 5 drums filled with mustard gas by the Japanese
Army
in WWII, harmed more than 40 people. One man had chemical burns over
95%
of his body and died later. Others had suffered from vomiting to severe
burns. Pictures of Qiqihar WMD Chemical victims.


In an ironical denial, Japan agreed to pay 300 million yen over mustard
gas, but NOT as Compensation, insisting ONLY as "Fees for operations to
dispose of abandoned WMD Chemical Weapons".


Japan has apologized to China for the incident. Japanese and Chinese
working team recently completed sealing up 724 pieces of WMD Chemical
Weapons along with five barrels of mustard gas and interview with
Japanese
official.


China displays WMD Chemical Weapons dug up jointly with Japan.


This is the FIRST official acknowledgement by the Japanese Government
that
Japan during WWII used WMD Chemical Weapon (mustard gas).


The next step should be the official acknowledgement of the use of the
WMD
Biological Weapon by the infamous Unit 731.



After the war, China has repeatedly demanded Japan to provide all WMD
burial sites information of these deadly WMD Chemical Weapons.
Unfortunately, Japan has flatly refused to cooperate.


As a result of Japan's WMD refusal, WMD Chemical Weapons continue to
threaten everyday people at 40 sites in 15 provinces and autonomous
regions.



At least 2,000 Chinese have so far become victims of the discarded
700,000
- 2,000,000 Japanese WMD Chemical Weapons since the war ended.



Jul 23, 2004 Two Chinese children playing near a river in Dunhua, Jilin
Province, injured by mustard gas leaked from the Japanese WMD Chemical
Weapon.


Jun 27 2005 Another 3 Chinese injured by Japanese WMD Chemical Weapons.


Jul 10, 2005 Evidence of vast plant that Japan used PoWs as human
guinea
pigs in WMD Chemical and Biological Warfare found in remote grasslands
of
Inner Mongolia, China. "It covers an area of 40 square miles. It may be
the largest and best-preserved gas experiment site in the world .....
Japan conducted WMD Chemical and WMD Germ Warfare in 2/3 of the
country,
but especially in the north, north-east and south of China," said Mr
Jin
Chengmin. "It should be qualified for World Heritage status. The ruins
serve as a permanent reminder of the atrocities Japanese troops
committed
in China."