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2009-05-31 -Lurid Crime Tales-

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Posted by 3dc 2009-05-31 03:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 http://ghostofbataan.com/bataan/abiemain.html

Posted by Parabellum 2009-05-31 08:31|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-05-31 08:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Damn, is that a winged porcine creature I just saw fly past my window?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-05-31 09:48|| 2009-05-31 09:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Barbara...not to worry, Bambi and his minions wil find a way to make the Bataan Death March our fault.

Posted by WolfDog 2009-05-31 10:10|| 2009-05-31 10:10|| Front Page Top

#4 yeah kinda sad it took them 70 years after most the other survivors have died too get an apology. They should have hit them in the pocketbook when the economy was still cruising along in Japan. I hate too say sue but with as amnay frivolous lawsuits there are out there this fday an age this one would have too been a great thing too see it get paid off

Posted by funky skunk 2009-05-31 10:22|| 2009-05-31 10:22|| Front Page Top

#5 They should have hit them in the pocketbook when the economy was still cruising along in Japan.

Except the final treaty, not to be confused with the surrender document signed on the Missouri, removed that opportunity.

Clause 16 of the San Francisco Treaty states:

As an expression of its desire to indemnify those members of the armed forces of the Allied Powers who suffered undue hardships while prisoners of war of Japan, Japan will transfer its assets and those of its nationals in countries which were neutral during the war, or which were at war with any of the Allied Powers, or, at its option, the equivalent of such assets, to the International Committee of the Red Cross which shall liquidate such assets and distribute the resultant fund to appropriate national agencies, for the benefit of former prisoners of war and their families on such basis as it may determine to be equitable. The categories of assets described in Article 14(a)2(II)(ii) through (v) of the present Treaty shall be excepted from transfer, as well as assets of Japanese natural persons not residents of Japan on the first coming into force of the Treaty. It is equally understood that the transfer provision of this Article has no application to the 19,770 shares in the Bank for International Settlements presently owned by Japanese financial institutions.

Clause 16 has served as a bar against subsequent lawsuits filed by former Allied prisoners of war against Japan.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-31 11:25|| 2009-05-31 11:25|| Front Page Top

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