Just a few more. This list is just a small sample:

Testing of chemical and biological weapons on civilians in Manchuria.
Wholesale kidnapping and exporting Korean women to prostitution "comfort centres' throughout the Empire.
Execution of Allied airmen routinely upon capture.
The use of civilians as training aids to "blood" new soldiers. Locals in occupied areas were simply taken and tied to poles and used for bayonet practice to teach novices how to kill. This was widespread in China.
Rape, murder and mutilation of the native peoples of Milne Bay. Cutting the breasts off native women was commonly reported.
Murder of two Catholic Nuns near Kokoda by cutting their throats. Killing of a priest out of hand after he tended some wounded.
Slave labour of Pacific Islanders to suport the landings along the New Guinea coast. Executed and beaten regularly.
Murder of an 11 year old boy at Rabaul (along with his mother and father) for suspicion they may have had a hidden radio.
Murder by bayonet (in pairs) of Australian Soldiers after they surrendered on New Britain.
Murder of Australian Soldiers by drowning through caging in cane baskets left in the tidal zone in Dutch East Indies.
Murder and torture of Australian wounded in Malaya by throwing them into a hole (caused by a failed attempt to blow a bridge), pouring petrol upon them and then burning them alive. Their ashes were used as fill.
Murder of Australian wounded by bayonet and the machine gunning of their attendant nurses after capture. (Read story of Vivian Bullwinkel).
Beating prisoners of war with wooden clubs for the crime of catching cholera. (Diary of Weary Dunlop).
Systematic starvation by refusing to provide rations for sick POWs. No work, no rations.
Over .25 million Chinese killed on the Burma railroad - starved, beaten and diseased.
The Bataan death march.
The ordering of the civil population of commit suicide instead of surrendering and the impressing of 1500 school children to bear arms against the Allied landing at Okinawa.
Indiscriminate bombing of civilian areas as they advanced simply to cause terror.
Transport of prisoners in overcrowded ships, where prisoners were locked in holds, with no food, little water and no fresh air whilst being transported through tropical destinations to slave labour roles in Japan.
Deliberate sinking of a correctly marked and lit hospital ship off Brisbane.

Ahhh I could go on but I get depressed,

Pretty sure Highkick is Filipino lol.

-PB

Cannibalism of Australian soldiers in Kokoda.

if he is god help me. Makes us filos look bad:lol:

Cannibalism of Australian soldiers in Kokoda.

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I thought it was too their own??

What's wrong?
White Australia unable to handle a few truth bombs?

Just go out there to the accessible areas of the city of Sydney

White Australia doesn't want to be seen there, yet they hold the dominant voice

I don't mind truthbombs and I don't mind people questioning what ANZAC day has become or our part in wars, but the tweets were pretty nonsensical. Look at them individually and point out where the truth lies. The mostly white, binge drinking gamblers is about the only one that really hits home - hell, I am one of them.

I find it kind of amusing that someone who wants to downplay the story of Anzacs would then imply so arrogantly that we had any part in Hiroshima or Nagasaki; as far as any history I've been taught, these were decisions far removed from Australia's sphere of influence. He can defend such a comment with the fact that he added "Allies" but he's clearly trying to make a ridiculous link.

dont make it about Liberal or Labor. they're both equally fucked up as one another.

Incorrect. This whole 'unaustrayan'/doesnt love austraya horseshit was a product of john Howards government. (Gleefully continued by T Rabid) It was a part of his culture wars at the ABC etc. in an attempt to stifle any objective criticism of his often draconian policies and it has partially succeeded in dumbing down political and societal discourse going by the drivel on display here.

you can sit down now

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you can sit down now

Can I just say I am really enjoying the depth of thought on display in the Anzac day threads.

I was almost sure most of those questioning aspects of Anzac day would be howled down in a hail of "it's UnAustralian, how dare you!!!!).

There has been a little bit of that (and you know who you are) but there's been heaps of others that have put their 2 cents in that have been well articulated and worth a read.

My estimation of some of the posters here has gone up quite a lot over the last few days.









And then there's highkick.

Fark she looks daft.
You miss the point, being a Muppet and gallivanting around in war zones all dressed up is ridiculous, but it is not the same thing as as seeking to label those who criticise Australia or government policy as unpatriotic. ](*,)

its not like he's the first

Is there a more un patriotic nation than Australia?

I mean we're a fairly young nation and being an island we've been lucky in that we've been relatively untouched by war, have never had to fight for our independence, and we've lived off the teet of England and then the US for a very long time. We lack a real national identity and the few things that one generally associates with this identity are dismissed as bogan or in the case of the "ANZAC Spirit" critiqued by the social media intelligentsia.

It just seems there's such an elitist element that makes their voices heard on social media around any Australia Day or ANZAC Day that like to think you've got to have a southern cross tattoo and a drinking problem to call yourself a patriot, but honestly what do we have to be ashamed of for being proud of your country? Obviously there have been plenty of negatives in our nations history but that's a universal problem, there have also been a lot of good things over the years that we have to be thankful for, I just don't see the point in living in the mistakes of the past at the expense of enjoying the present.

I just think that for all the fuss that gets made about how much we carry on about our 'significant moments' like Gallipoli, not enough is made about how critical we are of ourselves as well. I'd hate to see how fucking pessimistic our society would be if we actually had a rap sheet of injustices as big as a nation like Germany or the US, we'd never hear the end of it, but if they can pick themselves and be proud of their heritage it's an absolute travesty that so many Australian's are unable to do so.

Is there a more un patriotic nation than Australia?

I mean we're a fairly young nation and being an island we've been lucky in that we've been relatively untouched by war, have never had to fight for our independence, and we've lived off the teet of England and then the US for a very long time. We lack a real national identity and the few things that one generally associates with this identity are dismissed as bogan or in the case of the "ANZAC Spirit" critiqued by the social media intelligentsia.

It just seems there's such an elitist element that makes their voices heard on social media around any Australia Day or ANZAC Day that like to think you've got to have a southern cross tattoo and a drinking problem to call yourself a patriot, but honestly what do we have to be ashamed of for being proud of your country? Obviously there have been plenty of negatives in our nations history but that's a universal problem, there have also been a lot of good things over the years that we have to be thankful for, I just don't see the point in living in the mistakes of the past at the expense of enjoying the present.

I just think that for all the fuss that gets made about how much we carry on about our 'significant moments' like Gallipoli, not enough is made about how critical we are of ourselves as well. I'd hate to see how fucking pessimistic our society would be if we actually had a rap sheet of injustices as big as a nation like Germany or the US, we'd never hear the end of it, but if they can pick themselves and be proud of their heritage it's an absolute travesty that so many Australian's are unable to do so.

Unlike some here I am proud of the fact that some Australians aren't so blinded by the lottery of birth that they are willing to look critically at the country we inhabit.

I'd say it's the mark of a mature person and a nation to be introspective.