HIROSHIMA: THE UNTOLD STORY

War has been a phenomenon human civilizations have carried as legacy. History taught through educational system has often glorified wars. One cannot deny the importance of social progress brought about by French Revolution and Russian Revolutions.

It is an irony that a country whose culture is deep rooted in Buddhist religion and philosophy has to bore the brunt of greatest civilian causality in the history of the word. To save our future generations from the nuclear holocaust everyone needs to take concrete steps at the grass root level.

It has been the policy of the left-leaning world totally blaming democratic United States for dropping of atomic bomb in the Japanese cities. But does Japan really deserve that much sympathy and America the bane?

If one examines the progression of Second World War in the Pacific sector without prejudice and bias one can see that Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the ultimate price Japanese has to pay for the policy of the Emperor of Japan.

Like in the battle of Normandy in Europe the allied tried to win the batter on the Pacific Sector by conventional methods, but the causalities they have to bear was terrible. As happened in the Battle of Okinawa; the battle has one of the highest numbers of casualties of any World War Two engagement: the Japanese lost over 100,000 troops, and the Allies (mostly United States) suffered more than 50,000 casualties. The emperor was not in a mood to surrender even after such big causalities. Looking through the American perspective one cannot deny them using the ‘Bramhastra’ the fission bomb.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki often has put the allies, particularly the Americans in the back foot for long and made the world to forget the atrocities committed by the Japanese during II World War. Their attitude to Prisoners of War was notorious. During the war Andaman and Nicobar Islands were under Japanese occupation and the old folk in Andaman still remember Japanese with anger. Their policy to civilians was also highly deplorable.

Everyone forgets about thousands of Indian soldiers who died in Japanese captivity fighting for the allied forces. The Hiroshima would have shocked the world, loss of human life was very high, but it is uncovered truth that it saved millions, both PoW and civilians from the barbaric Japanese for ever.