WWII Germ-Test Victims’ Urns Found
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Buried in big, earthen pots, the remains of Chinese who died in Japanese germ warfare experiments during World War II have been found in southern China, state-run media reported. The graves were the first discovered in a three-year search for the remains of those victimized by a group of Japanese scientists. In 1994, a Chinese historian reported he had uncovered evidence that as many as 20,000 World War II refugees died from germ warfare experiments conducted at Zhongshan University, near Guangzhou.
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