Names of 52 Chinese victims of germ warfare released

Names of 52 Chinese victims of germ warfare released

HARBIN, China - China's Heilongjiang provincial government releases Aug. 2 Japanese army documents bearing the names of 52 Chinese victims of germ warfare experiments conducted by the Imperial Japanese Army near Harbin, northeastern China, during the 1937-1945 Sino-Japanese War. It is the first time for the Chinese to release documents left behind by Unit 731, whose human experiments allegedly killed some 3,000 Chinese.

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