Tommy Peters' Bicycles

A gripping documentary depicting Bushido barbarism in full bloom. 250,000 murdered, 25,000 raped but juxtaposed with an upside – 250,000 saved by acts of bravery committed by a few. 1937. Japan takes Nanking. In the melee, Rabe (a Nazi industrialist) teams up with Americans - Vautrin (a college dean) Wilson (a doctor) and Fitch (a missionary) amongst others to set up a sanctuary for refugees that helped save thousands in a dark chapter of China's history. The documentary is a collection of their record and a perpetual counter-balance to the mercenary of the dastardly kind - the revisionist historian. Their record serves to keep truth on the boil and the revisionist at bay. Words – Tommy Peters (Advanced appreciation is rendered for materials used without express permission of copyright owners – Nov 25, 2010)

The distinction between soldiering and murder is apparent in their sordid revelations just as it is felt within the bowels of the infamous Yasukini shrine where "Banzai" is still bellowed in memory of their fellow murderers. Four members of the Yamada Unit describe their handiwork. Kitamura Shogo - the smoker - is a piece of work. The rest are equally 'amazing' in diabolical sense. It's another day in the office for Hirohito's brutes. Their nostalgia is akin to having a bunch of aging Auschwitz technicians wax lyrical on variety of gassing techniques they applied on the helpless victims. Can we blame the imbeciles, given that the current composition of the Imperial Palace of Japan is as preposterous as tolerating a direct descendant of Hitler as Chancellor of Germany? Chang Zhi Qiang is 9 when his family is murdered. He explains vividly the brutality his mother and Fafa, his baby brother, is put through before they perish.

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