The Rape of Manila: The Forgotten War Crime of WWII
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INTRO: The Imperial Japanese Army was one of the most brutal armies that the world had ever seen. They didn’t just kill. They tortured, looted, and randomly murdered innocent civilians during their World War II rampage. Many would remember the Rape of Nanjing, where over 300,000 were killed, with over 30,000 women and children raped during the massacre from 1937 to 1938.
While these atrocities are certainly not a competition on who was more abused or which country had suffered the most casualties, a World War II massacre that has been forgotten is the Rape of Manila. Known in the Philippines as the “Panggahasa sa Maynila,” it is a lesser-known Japanese war crime in the Philippines, virtually unheard of elsewhere.
In a massacre where the death toll is estimated to be in the 100,000 to as high as 500,000 military personnel, men, women, and children were killed along with 20,000 or more women and children raped by multiple Japanese soldiers... (MORE - details)
The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army
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EXCERPTS: The revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army formed in Berkeley, California, just months before the kidnapping. Berkeley had long been America's center of radical militarism. By the early Seventies, after years of protest and resistance, some fringes of the Left were developing a sense of urgency. In the ever-present debate between non-violent and violent actions, the idea of terrorism was gaining ground.
[...] On November 6, the S.L.A. stepped onto the public stage by murdering black Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster. The S.L.A. had targeted Foster because he supported an identification system for students, but by the time of his murder he had in fact withdrawn that support. The S.L.A.'s crime announced the group as one capable of committing violent acts in the name of revolution, but it also brought down the scorn of the Berkeley Left, most of whom found the political murder of a black man incomprehensible.
[...] On February 4, 1974, the S.L.A. struck again. This time their target was the 19-year-old heiress to the Hearst family fortune, Patricia Campbell Hearst. A Berkeley undergraduate, Hearst was at home with her fiancé Steven Weed when three members of the S.L.A. forced their way in and abducted her.
[...] In 1974 a little-known but wealthy Berkeley undergraduate, Patricia Hearst, became a media celebrity after being kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. The kidnap victim transformed into a seemingly willing accomplice; over the months of her kidnapping, she participated in crimes, claimed allegiance to the S.L.A., and defended her captors as valiant heroes. From tape recordings, her trial testimony and own telling of the story years later, several different versions of events emerge, but there seems to be no resolution to the questions about her transformation. Her parents thought that she had been brainwashed; experts suggested that she was a victim of the Stockholm Syndrome, mistakenly identifying with her captors in an effort at self-preservation. Yet it is also possible that Hearst repudiated her upbringing to flirt with radical terrorism... (MORE - missing details)
https://sofrep.com/news/the-rape-of-mani...e-of-wwii/
INTRO: The Imperial Japanese Army was one of the most brutal armies that the world had ever seen. They didn’t just kill. They tortured, looted, and randomly murdered innocent civilians during their World War II rampage. Many would remember the Rape of Nanjing, where over 300,000 were killed, with over 30,000 women and children raped during the massacre from 1937 to 1938.
While these atrocities are certainly not a competition on who was more abused or which country had suffered the most casualties, a World War II massacre that has been forgotten is the Rape of Manila. Known in the Philippines as the “Panggahasa sa Maynila,” it is a lesser-known Japanese war crime in the Philippines, virtually unheard of elsewhere.
In a massacre where the death toll is estimated to be in the 100,000 to as high as 500,000 military personnel, men, women, and children were killed along with 20,000 or more women and children raped by multiple Japanese soldiers... (MORE - details)
The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperie...tion-army/
EXCERPTS: The revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army formed in Berkeley, California, just months before the kidnapping. Berkeley had long been America's center of radical militarism. By the early Seventies, after years of protest and resistance, some fringes of the Left were developing a sense of urgency. In the ever-present debate between non-violent and violent actions, the idea of terrorism was gaining ground.
[...] On November 6, the S.L.A. stepped onto the public stage by murdering black Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster. The S.L.A. had targeted Foster because he supported an identification system for students, but by the time of his murder he had in fact withdrawn that support. The S.L.A.'s crime announced the group as one capable of committing violent acts in the name of revolution, but it also brought down the scorn of the Berkeley Left, most of whom found the political murder of a black man incomprehensible.
[...] On February 4, 1974, the S.L.A. struck again. This time their target was the 19-year-old heiress to the Hearst family fortune, Patricia Campbell Hearst. A Berkeley undergraduate, Hearst was at home with her fiancé Steven Weed when three members of the S.L.A. forced their way in and abducted her.
[...] In 1974 a little-known but wealthy Berkeley undergraduate, Patricia Hearst, became a media celebrity after being kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. The kidnap victim transformed into a seemingly willing accomplice; over the months of her kidnapping, she participated in crimes, claimed allegiance to the S.L.A., and defended her captors as valiant heroes. From tape recordings, her trial testimony and own telling of the story years later, several different versions of events emerge, but there seems to be no resolution to the questions about her transformation. Her parents thought that she had been brainwashed; experts suggested that she was a victim of the Stockholm Syndrome, mistakenly identifying with her captors in an effort at self-preservation. Yet it is also possible that Hearst repudiated her upbringing to flirt with radical terrorism... (MORE - missing details)