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5. Bacteriological weapons used by the Japanese in Burma during World War II

Many people are familiar with the 731 unit and hate Shiro Ishii to the core, but they rarely know that Japan has many secret troops like the 731 unit. After the South Pacific was occupied by the Japanese army, they have successively established bacterial weapon research and development or use troops in Singapore, Thailand, Myanmar, etc. after it was occupied by the Japanese army.

There are Japanese documents seized by the Soviet army to prove that during World War II, the Japanese army secretly carried out bacterial attacks: "When conducting a secret attack, potassium, bacteria or explosives with clock-type explosives can be used in order to disrupt the morale of the enemy."

When the Kanto Army commander Yozo Yamada was tried by the Soviet government, he also confessed that the Japanese army "had approved and adopted the use of bacterial weapons, mainly with the following three attack methods: spreading bacteria from the plane, throwing bacterial bombs, and conducting military destruction... His sinful plan is to use the rapid reproduction ability of deadly bacteria to deliberately spread plague, cholera and other infectious diseases to the enemy and the enemy residents, thereby causing terrible plague and causing millions of people to die or panic!"

In order to destroy the Yunnan-Burma transportation line, the Japanese army began to use bacterial weapons such as plague and disasters in Tengchong as early as 1939.

By 1942, in order to further cooperate with the Japanese military operations, the Japanese army invaded Thailand in the north and established a bacterial warfare center in Bangkok. In the spring of 1942, the Japanese army captured Myanmar and then established a new bacterial warfare unit in Yangon. This unit was a detachment of the 9420 unit (the headquarters of this bacterial force is in Singapore). In order to effectively implement the plague and bacterial warfare against Tengchong, in 1942, Matsuda was instructed by Tokyo to go to Myanmar to directly command the bacterial warfare on Yunnan and Myanmar battlefields. Tengchong bacterial warfare is an important part of the Yunnan-Burma bacterial warfare, Matsuda was the first culprit.

Matsuda is one of the few authoritative figures in the Japanese bacterial warfare unit in bacterial research and production and bacterial combat, and its role is second only to Shiro Ishii.

After Matsuda arrived in Myanmar, he accelerated his preparations for the plague war against Tengchong. According to the archives declassified by the US Congress, three intelligences on February 16, April 17, and May 4 showed that Matsuda actively collected live rats to breed and produce fleas with plague. The intelligence on May 4 said: "Representatives of the British Red Cross reported to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CBI): In the past six months, the Japanese army asked each Burmese to hand over 2 to 3 live rats, and the Japanese army planned to engage in bacterial warfare and spread the plague." In 1943, the plague quickly spread to China along the Yunnan-Burma Highway.

Although the bacterial bomb mentioned in this book does not clearly indicate what bacteria it is, readers can generally understand from the relevant work of Xiong Qi that the Japanese army used bacterial weapons in the Yunnan-Burma War Zone. The first time the protagonist Dong Limao accepted a special task was to destroy the bacterial weapons stored in a railway warehouse in the suburbs of Yangon, Myanmar.

In order to facilitate readers to understand the historical background in some novels, in the future, Xiongqi wrote about the background of the war or real characters of that year, and would post some historical materials in a related way for readers to read and refer to.
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