Why waste prisoners if the Japanese were going to murder them anyway? Therefore, the military frequently used their prisoners to give their new soldiers bayonet practice and to harden them to killing. Such is what is probably being carried out in this photo. For documentation on the total murdered, see China's Bloody Century, Death By Government and Statistics of Democide. Source: "Japanese Army's Atrocities"

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