Khabarovsk war crimes trials
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The Khabarovsk war crimes trials were the Soviet hearings of twelve Japanese Kwantung Army officers and medical staff charged with the manufacture and use of biological weapons, and human experimentation, during World War II. The war crimes trials were held between 25 and 31 December 1949 in the Soviet industrial city of Khabarovsk (Хабаровск), the largest in the Russian Far East.
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All twelve defendants pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from two to twenty-five years, to be served in Siberian labour camps. Those captured by the United States were secretly given immunity in exchange for the data gathered during their human experiments.[1] The United States covered up the human experimentations and handed stipends to the perpetrators.[2] The Americans co-opted the researchers' bioweapons information and experience for use in their own biological warfare program, much like what had been done with Nazi German researchers in Operation Paperclip.[3][4] In 1956, those still serving their sentences were released and repatriated to Japan.