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  • Netaji And Japan War Crimes Why Classified Documents

    There is an uproar among some sections of India over the refusal to declassify the Netaji documents.

    The ruling Party in West Bengal, Trinamool Congress is nationalizing the issue with Forward Bloc and local parties like the MDMK of Tamil Nadu.

    However the Congress is keeping mum.

    Netaji was a freedom fighter who chose the military option to drive away the British from India with help from Hitler and Japan.

    He was imprisoned by the British eleven times in twenty years.

    He was also ordered to be killed by the British Spy Agency SOE(Special Operations Executive)

    There is confusion about his death.

    While one theory says that Netaji was killed in an air craft crash, another says, with Video evidence that he attended Nehru’s funeral and Lal Bahadur Shastri accompanied him to the taxi when Netaji returned.

    Please read my post on this.

    Why the Government of India has Classified Netaji’s File and are still refusing to do so even after 65 years after the World War II?

    Is it because the British who hated Netaji pathologically and had him in the ‘Most wanted List?’

    Or there are some issues that they do not want to divulge concerning other Nations which are now close to India?

    Was there any nexus between Nehru and other Indian Leaders over the affair and if divulged might affect their reputation and place our countries relations with Britain under strain?

    The answer is all the three.

    The revelation that Netaji consorted with Netaji and the Japanese would not affect if the information on this is revealed as Britain and Germany are now in the best of terms.

    So it has to be something more sinister and hidden from te pages of History.

    And why is it that Netaji was honoured by the Japanese Emperor and a shrine has been erected for him while in India, where he is adored by the Indians, where adualtion does not match that of the Japanese?

    The story.

     

    During World War 2,  Japanese landed at Rabaul on Jan 23rd 1942, after bombing the town and took over without even a fight.

     

     

    They used Rabaul as  Naval base and inflicted heavy casualties on the Allies in the World War II.

     

    Japan finally surrendered to Allied forces on Sept 6th 1945,  at Rabaul, when General Imamura boarded HMS Glory and formally surrendered at commanded by the Japanese Emperor, to General Vernon AH Sturdee.

     

    What happened in between is gruesome.

     

    Singapore was taken by the Japanese in  February 1942.

     

    A relatively small force of the Japanese routed 90,000 strong Allied forces in six days.

     

    The POWs were kept in Changi Prison.

     

    There were 41,000 Indian Soldiers, many from the Malay Campaign.

     

    Fearing the dropping of Phosphorus Bombs, the Japanese built  subterranean tunnels some 620 km in all.

     

    The coaxed an Indian Captain Mohan Singh of INA to aid the Japanese in building the Tunnel and in return promised to aid INA to fight the British.( On 29th Dec 1942, Japanese promptly shed all secrecy and put him into jail.)

     

    The Indian soldiers were asked to build the tunnel, not even a single Japanese Soldier was involved.

     

    During the process of Tunnel building, torture and Cannibalism by the Japanese and the Papua New Guineans 20,000 soldiers died in  two and a half years!

     

    The tunnel.

    Japanese Submarine base, Rabaul.jpg
    Rabaul Submaine base.Clic to enlarge.

     

    Rabaul Tunnel.jpg
    Interior of Rabaul Tunnel.

    620 km with 93 anti-aircraft guns , 43 cannons and thousands of infantry guns.

     

    It had everything built into it, including a 2500 bed hospital , four kilometers long , with five basement levels .

     

    Barracks could hold 200000 soldiers. There were 5 airstrips which could be entered from any number of tunnel entrances. Some of these tunnels could hold mini submarines and ships. There were several antiaircraft posts and pill boxes. There were aircraft hangars too.  Inside were mine , bomb , flame thrower and mortar factories.

     

    They had 2200 prostitutes shipped in from China, Philipines and Korea.  All of them lived in the tunnels.

     

    And at the time of Japanese Fall, they were killed.

     

    The Indians died of Malaria, malnutrition, torture ( for NOT completing the daily quota ), big testicle Diphtheria ( nicknamed Changi Indian balls ) , sunstroke, dysentery, wet Beriberi, sheer exhaustion—when they died they were just buried at tunnel extremes with displaced rubble.

     

    Medicines were only for Japanese soldiers.  Indian were given sweet potato and water to drink.

     

    There was NO electricity to have power tools. Over the last 9 months , to keep at least one air strip operational the Indians were forced to work in the open even with bombs falling around them.

     

    Only 436 skeletons were exhumed and buried at Port Moresby Bomana Commonwealth war cemetery . When the found the DNA to be of Indian stock—a plaque was put “ HERE LIES AN UNKOWN BRITISH SOLDIER 1942-45, KNOWN ONLY UNTO GOD

     

    The Japanese used the Indian to cultivate 16000 acres of vegetable gardens. They forced the locals to catch fish for them, and these local highlanders were poor fishermen.

     

    In June 1943, with Hilter’s connivance , Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose , took over as supreme commanded of INA, renamed as Azad Hind Fauj, got himself a Field Marshall’s uniform and took over..

     

    Would not the fact that Netaji did not raise the issue of 20000 Indian soldiers killed and tortured with the Japanese and agreed to collaborate with them cause immense damage to his name also create unrest in India , especially in West Bengal?

    Citation.

    http://ajitvadakayil.blogspot.in/2011/08/netaji-subhash-chandra-bose-untold.html

     

    https://sites.google.com/site/simpsonharbour/simpson-harbour/davapia-rocks/home/sub-base

     

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  • Australian Aborigines From India Genome-wide data

    Hindu Puranas describe the evolution of the world in detail, in all the eighteen of them.

    It is  a part of Grammar of Purana.

    Purana means, very Old.

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    Australian Aborigine.

    All the Purans agree on this point;there is no difference in the description of the Evolution of the world, though there are minor differences in respect of some Legends.

    The present world in which India is located is called the Jambu Dweepa and India was called Bharatha Varsha, in Bharatha Kanda.

    There are seven more areas expressed.

    These were called Milecha desa.

    “The Australian continent holds some of the earliest archaeological evidence for the expansion of modern humans out of Africa, with initial occupation at least 40,000 y ago. It is commonly assumed that Australia remained largely isolated following initial colonization, but the genetic history of Australians has not been explored in detail to address this issue. Here, we analyze large-scale genotyping data from aboriginal Australians, New Guineans, island Southeast Asians and Indians. We find an ancient association between Australia, New Guinea, and the Mamanwa (a Negrito group from the Philippines), with divergence times for these groups estimated at 36,000 y ago, and supporting the view that these populations represent the descendants of an early “southern route” migration out of Africa, whereas other populations in the region arrived later by a separate dispersal. We also detect a signal indicative of substantial gene flow between the Indian populations and Australia well before European contact, contrary to the prevailing view that there was no contact between Australia and the rest of the world. We estimate this gene flow to have occurred during the Holocene, 4,230 y ago. This is also approximately when changes in tool technology, food processing, and the dingo appear in the Australian archaeological record, suggesting that these may be related to the migration from India.”

    Some aboriginal Australians can trace as much as 11% of their genomes to migrants who reached the island around 4,000 years ago from India, a study suggests. Along with their genes, the migrants brought different tool-making techniques and the ancestors of the dingo, researchers say1.

    This scenario is the result of a large genetic analysis outlined today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. It contradicts a commonly held view that Australia had no contact with the rest of the world between the arrival of the first humans around 45,000 years ago and the coming of Europeans in the eighteenth century.

    “Australia is thought to represent one of the earliest migrations for humans after they left Africa, but it seemed pretty isolated after that,” says Mark Stoneking, a geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, who led the study.

    Irina Pugach, a postdoctoral researcher in Stoneking’s laboratory, discovered signs of the Indian migration by comparing genetic variation across the entire genomes of 344 individuals, including aboriginal Australians from the Northern Territory, highlanders from Papua New Guinea, several populations from Southeast Asian and India and a handful of people from the United States and China.

    Pugach confirmed an ancient association between the genomes of Australians, New Guineans and the Mamanwa — a Negrito group from the Philippines. These populations diverged around 36,000 years ago, suggesting that they all descended from an early southward migration out of Africa…

    But Pugach also found evidence of more recent genetic mixing, or gene flow, between the Indian and northern Australian populations — taking place around 141 generations ago. This gene flow could not have occurred during the initial wave of migration into Australia because it is absent from New Guinean and Mamanwa genomes, and it is too uniformly spread across the northern Aboriginal genomes to have come from European colonists.

    http://www.pnas.org/content/110/5/1803

    http://www.nature.com/news/genomes-link-aboriginal-australians-to-indians-1.12219

    http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21016700

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  • Recently Discovered Animals Photo Essay

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    First described in 2008, paracheilinus nursalim is a new species of flasher wrasse discovered in the Bird’s Head Peninsula in Western New Guinea. The fish’s most distinctive characteristic is of course its incredibly bright, vibrant colours. Given the recent nature of its discovery, little is currently known of the creature.

    To end on a cheery note: the future for the paracheilinus nursalim looks quite a lot brighter than can be said of some other animals on this list. The fish’s primary habitat is located within already-protected waters, meaning that it’s safe from external factors which may otherwise have put it at risk.

    New Animals
    Paracheilinus Nursalim

    I’ve already mentioned a number of recently discovered animals from Indonesia – and I would gladly wager that this is the most terrifying of the lot. The megalara garuda, also known (for good reason) as the king of the wasps, is an enormous wasp officially discovered in the Mekongga Mountains on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi in 2011. Average males are about two inches in length, and have an elongated mandible similar in size to their forelegs. Not only is the megalara garuda massive and demonic looking – it is also venomous. The first specimens of the wasp were collected on an expedition to Indonesia in 1930; however the first live specimen was captured and documented just last year. Much like many other rare species, deforestation and other environmental impacts pose a threat to the wellbeing of the species.

    New Animals
    Megalara Garuda

    The wattled smoky honeyeater is a species of honeyeater endemic to the Foja Mountains of Indonesia. This particular species’ most distinctive feature is the reddish-orange facial skin around its eyes. Discovered in December of 2005, the wattled smoky honeyeater was the first new bird species discovered in New Guinea since 1939. In addition to the brilliant orange skin around the bird’s eyes, it has the curious characteristic of walking with a ‘wottle’. The honeyeater was one of over twenty new species discovered in a single expedition that took place in 2005. The shade of the bird’s facial skin changes slightly when flushed.

    New Animals
    Wattled Smoky Honeyeater

    The lesula is a remarkable new species of African monkey discovered in 2007. It was discovered in the Democratic Republic of Congo and is the second new species of African monkey discovered in nearly three decades. The monkey was first seen (by non-locals) in 2007 by John and Terese hart of Yale University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History, in the home of a primary school teacher in the town of Opala. The most visible characteristic which makes the lesula so unusual is its startlingly human face. A slightly less obvious characteristic are the bald patches on the monkey’s hindquarters and genital region, both of which are coloured a vibrant blue.

    New Animals
    Lesula

    Found in the remote Fuja Mountains of Indonesia, the Pinocchio frog is a strange little creature which was only discovered by accident in 2010, after wandering into a research camp and perching itself atop a bag of rice. The animal’s most obvious distinctive feature is the odd protuberance on the front of its face – most often referred to as its nose. The strange nose-like thing is a feature which only the males have, and becomes erect when they are making excited calls, returning to its standard position when they are not. The exact purpose of the ‘nose’, and the frogs’ ability to manipulate it, is as yet unknown.

    New Animals
    Pinocchio Frog

    This rather snuggly looking crustacean was discovered in 2005 in the South Pacific Ocean. Given the presence of a substantial quantity of silky blond setae, its discoverers were quick to dub it the ‘yeti crab’. The unusual little decapod reaches an average length of around fifteen centimetres (just under six inches) and lives around hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean. It is for this reason that the fur-like setae contain filamentous bacteria, which allow the creature to detoxify poisonous substances emitted in the water by vents. It has been speculated that the yeti crab may actually feed on such bacteria – but it is generally believed to be a carnivore.

    New Animals
    Yeti Crab

    http://listverse.com/2012/12/12/10-incredible-recently-discovered-animals/

     

    I’ve opted to put this monstrous creature at number ten for one very simple reason: it terrifies me. It terrifies me so much that I didn’t want to grant it the honour of placing it any higher. The species was officially discovered in 2006 during an expedition to Guyana. It is a burrowing spider, feeding primarily on invertebrates, though it has also been observed eating small mammals, lizards, and venomous snakes (surprise surprise). Fully grown specimens can reach a horrific weight of around six ounces. Thankfully for us – and for any other creatures too large for the spider to eat – the goliath bird eater is a species of tarantula, and has relatively weak venom, which causes mild swelling and pain for a few hours.

    But the thing that poses the biggest threat to us humans is the goliath’s ability to expel urticating hairs from its body. These tiny, nearly invisible hairs float through the air – and have an awful tendency to stick in the eyes.

    New Animals
    Goliath Bird Eating Spider
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  • Testicle Eating Fish Video

     

    Men in the area of Litchfield, Ill., may want to stay on dry land.

    A fisherman caught a ‘testicle-eating fish‘ at Lake Lou Yaeger, according to video from WGN News. Photos of the fish, called a pacu, reveal human-like teeth.

    The fish, also reportedly nicknamed a ‘ball cutter,’ has been tied to the deaths of two men in New Guinea who had their testicles bitten off.

    http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/2012/07/12/20120712illinois-testicle-eating-fish.html#ixzz21LyC0IFt