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Captured soldiers of the British Indian Army who refused to join the INA were executed by the Japanese. This photo is one of four atrocity pictures that was found among Japanese records when British troops entered Singapore. September 1945. (IWM) 
Japanese soldiers shooting blindfolded Sikh soldiers in Singapore, WW II
Japanese ate Indian PoWs, used them as live targets in WWII
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Japanese soldiers take aim at Indian Prisoners of War
Indian Army PoWs made live targets for new Japanese infantry recruits
An emaciated Indian PoW from Hong Kong onboard the medical ship Oxfordshire (Getty Images)
Jemadar Abdul Latif of 4/9 Jat Regiment who was among the first to allege that the Japanese killed Indians and fed on them
Then there is General Harbaksh Singh who too was a PoW of the Japanese in WW2.
He writes about how young Japanese soldiers / officers were made to practice their swordsmanship on Indian PoWs.
Will dig out a screenshot from his autobiography in a while
He writes about how young Japanese soldiers / officers were made to practice their swordsmanship on Indian PoWs.
Will dig out a screenshot from his autobiography in a while
Bottomline: Japanese were NOT fighting for Indian independence. They were fighting for their own empire and its colonies.
In my personal opinion, their 'rule' in China in the 1930s and 40s speaks a lot about their 'benevolence' towards lands 'liberated' by them.
In my personal opinion, their 'rule' in China in the 1930s and 40s speaks a lot about their 'benevolence' towards lands 'liberated' by them.
Yes, the INA played a big role in Indian independence, but that role was NOT on the battlefields of Burma or Imphal.
In fact, the INA hardly got to see the kind of fighting that the Imperial Japanese Army did in the theatre.
In fact, the INA hardly got to see the kind of fighting that the Imperial Japanese Army did in the theatre.
What the INA experience taught the British, further bolstered by the Naval mutiny, the Jabalpur mutiny and also the much less talked about RIAF mutiny, was that they could no longer rule India when the loyalties of the Indian Armed Forces were now suspect.
The British were smart fellows.
They knew it was time to tuck tail and run, but they made it look like they had finally 'granted' independence to India.
Nothing could be farther from truth.
Indians had wrested their independence from them.
They knew it was time to tuck tail and run, but they made it look like they had finally 'granted' independence to India.
Nothing could be farther from truth.
Indians had wrested their independence from them.
Whether it was the 'Quit India Movement' that forced them to quit, or what I mentioned above, I'll leave to your judgement and opinion.
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