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{{Short description|Japanese war crime during World War II}} |
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The '''Pig-Basket atrocity''' is a ] that took place during ] in which Allied prisoners were thrown into the sea. This atrocity was committed by ] soldiers in ]. |
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== The Atrocity == |
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After the ] surrendered ] to the Japanese, 200 Allied soldiers fled to the hills around ] and formed resistance groups. Eventually, the soldiers were captured by the ], and squeezed into 3-foot long bamboo ]s used for transporting pigs. The men were then thrown into the back of open transport trucks that drove them through the countryside in 38 °C weather. The trucks took them to a railway where they were unloaded and then transported again, this time in open rail wagons to the coast.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Massacres and Atrocities of WWII in the Pacific Region|url=http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/massacres_pacific.html|access-date=2021-12-28|website=members.iinet.net.au}}</ref> 15 years old at the time, Elizabeth van Kempen observed this transport with her father while standing on the nearby ridge of Mount ]. Elizabeth recalls hearing the men's screams from where she stood. Her father was killed years later by the Kenpeitai in Malang for hiding weapons.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Van Kampen|first=Elizabeth|title=We saw 5 open trucks, they were loaded with bamboo baskets with there in laying white men… {{!}} De Indische kwestie|url=https://deindischekwestie.nl/we-saw-5-open-trucks-they-were-loaded-with-bamboo-baskets-with-there-in-laying-white-men/|access-date=2021-12-28|language=nl-NL}}</ref>{{better source|reason=This website is a blog, refer WP:BLOG|date=June 2022}} |
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By the time they reached their destination, the Allied Soldiers were half dead with ] and ] and likely in great pain from their tightly confined state. They were loaded onto fishing boats and sailed out to shark-infested waters off ] where the men were dumped, still in the baskets, into the ocean.{{cn|date=June 2022}} |
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== The aftermath == |
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The commander in chief of the Japanese forces in Java at the time was lieutenant-general ].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biography of General Hitoshi Imamura - (今村 均) - (いまむら ひとし) (1886 – 1968), Japan|url=https://generals.dk/general/Imamura/Hitoshi/Japan.html|access-date=2021-12-28|website=generals.dk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=AWM54 1010/4/156 - Statements by General Imamura Hitoshi proving his Command Area of responsibility of such, together with certifying statements and five maps showing the area of his (Imamura's) Command 1946|url=https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C2653124?image=27|access-date=2021-12-28|website=www.awm.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> |
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Imamura and his troops were detained by the ] in ] for committing war crimes including the execution of Allied ]. Imamura wrote to the Australian Commander in Rabaul to ask that his own trial be expedited in order to speed up the prosecution of the soldiers under his command. He was tried by an Australian military tribunal on May 1–16, 1947, and convicted of charges including "unlawfully to discharge his duty...to control the members of his command, whereby they committed brutal atrocities and other high crimes." His sentence was imprisonment for 10 years and he was sent to Tokyo's ] prison, where he stayed until his release in 1954.{{cn|date=December 2021}} |
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