giapponegiappone.it I published an article that in addition to briefly recall the genocide of Okinawa during World War II, reports a MySpace page, written by an American soldier who incites racial hatred and genocide. Here is the article and the link to that page :
American site incites hatred against people of Okinawa and genocide
Sunday, July 12, 2009 15:36 Lorenzo Petroncini
The genocide in Okinawa is one of the pages the most dramatic World War II. In this beautiful archipelago of peaceful local population was the victim of both armies, American and Japanese: the latter was In fact, to inculcate in the minds of the premises that the Americans were barbarians, and that priogionieri were tortured and killed anyway, so it was more honorable suicide not to humiliate the Emperor.
The island has been separated for years from Japan and under the control of the Americans, until 1972. Even today 19% of the territory is occupied by U.S. military bases, and it will be much longer, at least until North Korea's missile tests and will continue to develop nuclear technology. Aware of what the people of Okinawa, known to be calm and peaceful, tries to withstand the American soldiers who for years have been the authors of unpunished rapes, robberies, omics and violence of all kinds.
Despite the tourist boom of Okinawa in the early years of this decade that introduced this beautiful archipelago in the world, it seems that American soldiers do not yet appreciate the beauties. Indeed.
Among the MySpace pages, there is one called "Okinawa Genocide" is not a page for historical interest, but a page written by an American military begins this way:
"If you're in Okinawa and hate it, if you're tired of driving at 24km / h everywhere ... if you go to Jusco or any other store and you are the nerves to feel the banjo Okinawa .... if you hit children every time you enter a family mart sucks ... if you join us ... the soba "
Shortly below is the question "Why do you hate Okinawa?". This page does not seem to explicitly incite violence against the locals, but after the terrible name of the site to clarify that this is a site of racist, xenophobic and violent.
As long as there are people like these in the world, peace and tolerance will be increasingly difficult. And the story, that of genocide, that of the 120,000 civilian deaths in a population of 450,000 and 66,000 to 70,000 Japanese soldiers, 12,000 American soldiers dead and about 180,000, it seems that this time has not taught anything.
For posterity will judge ...
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