Moscow. August 30. INTERFAX.RU – The FSB Central Archive will declassify materials from the 1949 trial of a number of Japanese war criminals in September, the intelligence agency's Public Relations Center (DSP) reported on Monday.
“On September 6, the Central Archives of the FSB of Russia within the framework of the project” Without a statute of limitations “at the international scientific and practical forum” Khabarovsk Trial: Historical Significance and Modern Challenges “will present declassified archival materials of the trial of Japanese war criminals in 1949,” the DSP said …
The FSB recalled that the trial took place on December 25-30, 1949 in Khabarovsk, the trial was open. At the same time, until now, some of the documents were not available to researchers.
12 former Japanese military personnel who served in the Kwantung Army, including five generals, were brought before a military tribunal.
The court became “an expression of the principled position of the Soviet Union in relation to the bacteriological threat and condemnation of crimes against humanity that were not taken into account by the Tokyo Tribunal, which was held from May 3, 1946 to November 12, 1948,” the secret service notes.
“Trophy documents, interrogation protocols and personal testimony of soldiers, officers and civilians of the Japanese army testify to the presence in Manchuria in the immediate vicinity of the borders of the Soviet Union of an extensive base for the production of bacteriological weapons and plans to use them against the USSR and other countries, as well as the facts of its use. applications, including tests on living people, “- said in the DSP.
The testimony of the members of the command of the Kwantung Army (former Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Yamada Otozoo, Lieutenant General of the Medical Service Kajitsuka Ryuji, Major General of the Medical Service Kawashima Kiyoshi and others) reveal the truth about planned and already committed crimes against peace and humanity on the part of Japan.
“The general public will also be presented for the first time with documentary materials about the Hogoin camp for Russians (translated into Russian as” Shelter “) located near Harbin, from where the prisoners were sent as test subjects to Japanese military units created on the territory of Manchuria – detachments 731 and 100, engaged in the preparation of bacteriological and chemical warfare, “- added to the FSB.
