澳媒对日本战争罪犯审判的报导——流放在热带丛林中的抗日将士(附14)

澳媒对日本战争罪犯审判的报导——流放在热带丛林中的抗日将士(附14)

第二次世界大战结束后，西南太平洋地区盟军的善后工作之一，就是审判日军的战争罪犯。下面是几则在亚包军事审判庭审判日军中下级官兵中战争罪犯的报道。因其均涉及到战时在新不列颠岛及周围岛屿对中国人(包括当地侨民、平民劳工和军人战俘劳工)的残酷暴行和非人道虐待，特转贴于下。

WAR CRIMINALS IDENTIFIED AT RABAUL

In a line-up of Japanese war criminals at Rabaul, an Indonesian soldier has identified 10 Japanese as murderers. He said that the 10 Japanese had machinegunned and bayoneted to death a large group of Indonesians. About 140 alleged criminals have already been identified by Indians and Indonesians, and these have been photographed. Lack of a Chinese interpreter is holding up possible identification of 120 more by Chinese soldiers and civilians.

The Argus, Saturday 24 November 1945

SEDATIVES GIVEN TO JAPS BEFORE EXECUTION
RABAUL Wednesday

Two Jap war criminals were hanged this morning after receiving sedatives from a medical officer.

They were Sgt-Major Manaru Inagaki, of Kempei Tai (secret police) who was convicted of beheading Gerald Woo, a Chinese former employee of Burns Philp in October, 1944 and a Navy workman Haruo Kikawa, who was convicted of murdering five natives at Tobera in New Britain in August, 1943

They were hanged m the presence of 13 witnesses.

Some of the officers criticised the practice of giving sedatives to criminals awaiting death mercies which were not allowed Allied prisoners.

An Australian officer described as an expert, conducted the executions, bringing his total to 30 in the islands north of Australia.

Yesterday the two condemned men were segregated from a compound containing 500 other criminals and placed in a hut surrounded by barbed wire.

When an official party arrived this morning, both Japs asked for sleeping draughts and that no Chinese or natives be allowed to witness their fate.

A medical officer gave Inagaki four tablets and Kikawa three.

Inagaki vomited the tablets and asked for morphia, which was injected into his arm.

Officers claimed that the widest publicity should be given to the executions and Chinese and natives who had suffered so long under the barbarism of Jap rule, should be invited to see justice done.

The Canberra Times, Thursday 21 March 1946, p.1.

DEATH PENALTIES FOR EXECUTION OF WAR PRISONERS
RABAUL, Tuesday. 

For the murder of four Chinese prisoners of war in New Britain in April, 1943, L/Cpl. Tajima, a Japanese soldier and Susome, a Formosan civilian, were sentenced to be hanged and Lieut. Mitsu Tasaka was sentenced to life imprisonment.

A former Chinese prisoner of war said that he had seen four Chinese shot by Tajima and Yomeda in a pit dug by Indians at the orders of the Japanese.

Tajima told the court that, if he had not curried out the orders to shoot the men, he would have been shot himself.

The Canberra Times, Wednesday 24 April 1946