Thursday October 26, 2023
Because Japanese collaborators in the Philippines retained power even after Japan surrendered, Filipino, American and foreign nationals who were victims of Japanese war crimes never got the justice they sought nor received reparations, restitution or any form of payment for the death and suffering for which the Japanese Imperial military personnel and their Filipino puppet were responsible.
Bataan Death March: Pantingan River Massacre April 12, 1942: Remuneration, reparations and restitution for Japanese atrocities in the Philippines during WWII, among others, the massacre of 350 to 400 Filipino soldiers of mostly from the 91st Division of the USAFFE on April 12, 1942.
20. b) Massacre in Mapanique, Candaba, Pampanga; Lost 100 Kapampangan Women on November 23, 1944.
20. c) Fort Santiago Massacres with focus on the massacres that occurred between December 1944 to March 1945, and specifically the execution of about 50 suspected guerrillas including Brig. Gen. Vicente Lim USMA 1914 on Dec. 31, 1944 at the Chinese Cemetery. Link under construction.
One note-book presumably belonging to a member of the Akasuki Force, says:—”February 7, 1945. One hundred and fifty guerillas were disposed of tonight. I personally stabbed and killed 10. February 8: Guarded over 1,184 guerillas which were newly brought in to-day. February 9. Burned 1,000 guerillas to death to night. February 10: Guarded approximately 1,660 guerillas. February 13. Enemy tanks are lurking in the vicinity of Banzai Bridge (Jones Bridge, Manila). Our attack, preparation has been completed. Iam now on guard duty at guerilla internment camp. While I was on duty 10 guerillas tried to escape. They were stabbed to death. At 16.00, all guerillas were burned to death.” from: Japanese Atrocities Make Tale Of Horror by Jack Percival Our War Correspondent in the Philippines
20. d) Los Baños Massacre Feb. 1945 – The highly successful raid on Los Baños prison camp on Feb. 23, 1945, conducted by elements of the 11th Airborne Division and Hunters ROTC guerrillas liberated 2,147 Allied civilian and military internees from University of Philippines at Los Baños an agricultural school campus turned Japanese internment camp. One of Japanese who escaped when the liberators attacked, Lt. Sadaaki Konishi, Imperial Japanese Army, came back a few days later, with reinforcements. Finding all the POWs gone he vented his rage on the people in nearby towns and massacred some 1,500 men, women, and children which they suspected of collaborating with the liberators. Konishi was later tried for war crimes and convicted in the Philippines (1946-1947) and hanged in Japan.
Rottman, G.L., 2010, The Los Baños Prison Camp Raid, Oxford: Osprey Publishing Ltd., ISBN 9781849080750
20. e) Batangas Massacre – From 9 October 1944 to 1 May 1945, Japanese soldiers massacred up to 25,000 mostly civilians in Lipa, Batangas province.
From: Bill of Particulars for the Yamashita trial as written on 8 October 1945 by Major Robert M. Kerr included as part of the appendix of a thesis entitled “In Re Yamashita,” by Alston Shepherd Kirk, dated May 1974.
Link: https://www.batangashistory.date/2018/12/atrocities-batangas.html?m=1