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Hiroshima and Nagasaki were not the first mass killing of civilians in Japan. Tokyo was firebombed 10th March 1945 and maybe as many as 100 – 110,000 civilians were killed.
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“After 2 hours of bombardment, Tokyo was engulfed in a firestorm. The fires were so hot they would ignite the clothing on individuals as they were fleeing. Many women were wearing what were called 'air-raid turbans' around their heads and the heat would ignite those turbans like a wick on a candle. The Japanese War History office estimated that the incendiary bombing of Tokyo led to 72,489 Japanese dead. This may have been the most devastating single raid ever carried out by aircraft in any war including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the firebombing of Dresden”....General Curtis LeMay later said: "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal."
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This mass killing of civilians was premeditated murder. The US bombers choose the most densely populated area in downtown Tokyo in order to kill as many “enemies” as possible. But were the women and children in Tokyo really the enemy of USA?
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