domingo, abril 17, 2005

Japoneses malos


Últimamente se han realizado manifestaciones en China (suena raro eso) en contra de la omisión en los libros de texto de algunas atrocidades que Japón cometió en la zona de Manchuria. Sabemos que los chinos no son precisamente unos adoradores de los derechos humanos, pero los japoneses de antaño también tuvieron su propia dosis de ultraje. Aquí muestro una caricatura que publicó The New York Times en 1943, titulada "How Tough are the Japanese?"

Addendum:

"China's textbooks omit the story of how the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950's was actually the disastrous failure of a harebrained economic scheme by Mao that led to the starvation of 20 million to 50 million rural Chinese. No one really knows the numbers. Nor do we know how many were killed in the campaigns to suppress "counterrevolutionaries" during the 1950's, in the Cultural Revolution during the 1960's, or even in the Beijing massacre of 1989. Yet we hold Japan firmly responsible for 300,000 deaths at Nanking. Does our confidence with numbers depend on who did the killing?" --Pu Zhiqiang en The New York Times

posted by Roberto A. Juarez-Garza @ 9:42:00 a.m.