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War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia - A Case of Murder by Medicine (Hardcover)
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War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia - A Case of Murder by Medicine (Hardcover)
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Immediately following Pearl Harbor, Japan wrenched the meagerly
defended Netherlands East Indies, now known as Indonesia, from the
hands of its Dutch colonialists. Suddenly, one of the world's
largest nations was at the service of the Japanese Imperial Army. A
highly successful campaign recruited young Indonesian men to
support the Japanese war efforts, but hidden behind the facade of
Asian brotherhood was a sinister truth-during the brief 40 months
of Japanese occupation, as many as several million Indonesians were
worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers
known as the romusha. While many romusha were lost from all memory
and record, nine hundred Indonesians were known victims of a brutal
and immoral medical experiment perpetuated by an increasingly
desperate Imperial Japan. With the tide of the war turning and in
dire need of a means to protect their troops from tetanus in
anticipation of a land assault, the Japanese used romusha as human
guinea pigs for a vaccine that had not been sufficiently vetted. In
a matter of days, all 900 patients had suffered protracted and
agonizing deaths. With the American and Allied forces poised to win
the war, Japan needed a scapegoat for this well-documented incident
if it was to avoid war crimes prosecution. In War Cimes in
Japan-Occupied Indonesia: A Case of Murder by Medicine, J. Kevin
Baird and Sangkot Marzuki chronicle the life and wrongful execution
of Achmad Mochtar, a native Indonesian and renowned scientist,
against the backdrop of a tropical medicine and the science of
vaccination, not only to exonerate an innocent man, but also to
provide a picture of a nascent country emerging from the ravages of
colonization and occupation.
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