International Condemnation Quotes
General Otis, the commander of American troops in the Philippines regarded this proclamation as tantamount to a declaration of war and prepared his forces for such.
This was unfortuantely true. At various stages of American History, we have sided with some terrible dictators and overlooked their gross human rights violations, war crimes and aggressions, on the theory that the enemy of my enemy is to be supported.
While there is often considered to have been only one Holocaust, the headline Another Armenian Holocaust implies there were multiple holocausts in Armenia
The assassination of Chilean Dissident, Orlando Letelier occurred in 1976 in Washington, D.C. Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet had been suspected, but the information that the CIA had, was classified secret and hidden from the world until President Barak Obama finally declassified documents from this era, It is hard to determine why it had been suppressed for so long.
On March 9-10, 1945, over three hundred B-29 Superfortresses loaded with 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs flew over Tokyo bombing the city in waves for 6 hours. Over 250,000 buildings were destroyed and more people were killed than would be in either Hiroshima or Nagasaki which were destroyed by atomic bombs. See {615730} and {615733}. The technique called area bombing was then implemented on Japanese cities 66 more times. Stimson was seriously worried that there would be no large targets in Japan left on which the dramatic effect of the atomic bomb could be demonstrated. And without such a demonstration, there would not be a likely Japanese surrender as all the devastating conventional bombing had not persuaded the Japanese. A land invasion with perhaps millions of casualties might be required.
