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The shameful and harrowing story of Unit 731

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The Atrocities of Biological Warfare Development

This chapter investigates the horrifying experiments conducted by Unit 731, a secret Japanese unit during World War II that carried out inhumane medical research on prisoners, primarily targeting Chinese citizens. It sheds light on the escalation of their experiments and the quest to develop biological weapons, highlighting the moral breaches disguised as scientific inquiry.

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