Pentagon Admits For First Time To Testing Mustard Gas,
Other Lethal Chem Weapons On 60,000 African Americans Circa WWII
By Robert Barsocchini
26 June, 2015
Countercurrents.org
As brutal treatment of African Americans and other minorities in the US makes world headlines and is condemned at the UN, NPR reports:
When officers led him and a dozen others into a wooden gas chamber and locked the door, he didn’t complain. None of them did. Then, a mixture of mustard gas and a similar agent called lewisite was piped inside.
“It felt like you were on fire,” recalls Edwards, now 93 years old. “Guys started screaming and hollering and trying to break out. And then some of the guys fainted. And finally they opened the door and let us out, and the guys were just, they were in bad shape.”
The US now officially admits to conducting human experiments with mustard gas and other chemical weapons on 60,000 African Americans, as well as Japanese and Puerto Rican people. This is in addition to other human experiments the US carried out on African Americans, Guatemalans, Marshall Islanders, whom mainstream US culture referred to as “savages“, and others.
The types of experiments with “lethal chemical agents” the US government carried out on the unwilling participants were:
[1] Patch tests, where liquid mustard gas was applied directly onto test subjects’ skin; [2] field tests, where subjects were exposed to gas outdoors in simulated combat settings; and [3] chamber tests, where men were locked inside gas chambers while mustard gas was piped inside.
NPR quotes a 95 year old man who recounts being sent into the jungle and then bombarded with mustard gas from US military planes, as well as forced to crawl through fields saturated with the chemical. “It took all the skin off your hands. Your hands just rotted,” he says. He still suffers from debilitating skin conditions.
“You had no choice. You did not know where you were going. They didn’t tell you anything,” said a subject.
Read the full report.
The US is still experimenting on people in various ways and protecting human-experimenters today.
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