Marutas of Unit 731: Human Experimentation of the Forgotten Asian Auschwitz (Uncovering Unit 731, #2)

by Jenny Chan

Consequently, 44 countries passed an agreement at the 1925 Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on June 17, 1925 and signed an international protocol named “Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare” (“Geneva Protocol), prohibiting the use of chemical and biological weapons in war.

when asked what the structure was, the scientists replied that it was a lumber mill as human subjects were logs, or in Japanese, “maruta”s.

Anyone charged with any type of crime such as anti-Japanese sentiment, opium smoking, espionage, communism, mental handicap or homelessness was sent to Unit 731 for experiments.

Besides bubonic plague, anthrax and glanders were also used. Villagers in the region suffered from rotten leg diseases for many years after the war.