 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
I have called for an International War Crimes Tribunal to be held in 1967 because, once again, crimes of great magnitude have been taking place. Our tribunal, it must be noted, commands no State power. It rests on no victorious army. It claims no other than a moral authority.
Source: Bertrand Russell: War Crimes in Vietnam, 1967,Postscript.
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* Original in Japanese, translated with DeepL.com (free version)
There is no such thing as a democratic country that does not commit war crimes. During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military committed numerous war crimes, and the U.S. news media reported mass killings by the U.S. military, which shocked many Americans and triggered an anti-war movement that spread throughout the United States. In the name of halting the progress of communism (the "cause"), the U.S. military fought with all its might, including the severe bombing of North Vietnam, but in the end the U.S. forces were defeated and withdrew from the war. Even though Japan boasts that it has not fought a war for nearly 80 years since the end of the war, in reality, during the Korean War and Vietnam War, Japan was enriched by special war demands, and bombers flew from the U.S. military base in Okinawa to the Korean Peninsula and Vietnam on a daily basis. Can we say that Japan is not responsible for this because it happened before Okinawa was returned to Japan? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)