日本軍によるババル島住民虐殺覚え書き
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概要
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In 1986 a former officer of the Japanese Imperial Army. Mr. TAKETOMI Tomio, obtained certain strictly confidential military documents. This series of documents brought to light for the first time, a terrible case of massacre perpetrated by the Imperial Army. This incident occured around October (or November) of 1944 at Babar Island, located in the Arafura Sea in Eastern Indonesia. On observing the documents it was apparent that they had been tampered with and altered several times, because the military leaders of the army's fifth division (which was responsible for the massacre), were obviously afraid that they would be tried as war criminals by the allied military tribunal. However these documents reveated the fact that more than five hundreds inhabitants (including women and children) belonging to the Emplawas Village of that Island, were slaughtered by the Japanese military forces. Both the massacre and the dishonest altering of the documents had evoked in me a deep feeling of uneasiness, and so in September, 1992 I visited Babar Island, along with Mr. OMURA Tetsuo and Prof. UTSUMI Aiko. We were able to interview several inhabitants of that village, who were fortunate enough to experience and survive that terrible massacre. And all of them verified the fact that the victims of the massacre were villagers (about 700 in number) almost all of whom had been slaughtered. They strongly refused the contention of the Japanese army that the villagers had plotted a rebellion. The villagers of Emplawas are now demanding through United Nations compensation from the Japanese Government, both for the victims and for damaged property. This memorandum records several interviews with eye-witnesses of the massacre and also introduces documents concerning the different villages of Babar Island, which identify the victims and damaged property and demands compensation from the government of Japan.
- 上智大学の論文
- 1992-12-26