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maybe hold their hands up to try to ward off the bullets.
Originally posted by purplemer
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
I do not understand why you think it is worse if a woman does this...
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
reply to post by Aeons
Good point with that and I sure can't fault the logic. Perhaps it does make more sense to think of it the other direction as Child -> Mother first. I just can't help but wonder why we're seeing more of these happen. So senseless and so far beyond any standards or norms for the sheer brutality of it all.
from Filicide-Suicide: Common Factors in Parents Who Kill Their Children and Themselves
Altruistic filicide is murder committed out of love to relieve the real or imagined suffering of the child.
from Child murder by mothers: patterns and prevention
Maternal infanticide studies in the general population (20,38,44,45) found a predominance of unemployed mothers in their early 20s.
From Battle of Okinawa @ Wikipedia
With the impending victory of American troops, civilians often committed mass suicide, urged on by the Japanese soldiers who told locals that victorious American soldiers would go on a rampage of killing and raping. Ryukyu Shimpo, one of the two major Okinawan newspapers, wrote in 2007: "There are many Okinawans who have testified that the Japanese Army directed them to commit suicide. There are also people who have testified that they were handed grenades by Japanese soldiers" to blow themselves up. Some of the civilians, having been induced by Japanese propaganda to believe that U.S. soldiers were barbarians who committed horrible atrocities, killed their families and themselves to avoid capture. Some of them threw themselves and their family members from the cliffs where the Peace Museum now resides.
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Marine Corps officials in Okinawa and Washington have stated that they "knew of no rapes by American servicemen in Okinawa at the end of the war, and their records do not list war crimes committed by Marines in Okinawa". Historian George Feifer, however, writes that rape in Okinawa was "another dirty secret of the campaign" in which "American military chronicles ignore [the] crimes." Few Okinawans revealed their pregnancies, as "stress and bad diet ... rendered most Okinawan women infertile. Many who did become pregnant managed to abort before their husbands and fathers returned. A smaller number of newborn infants fathered by Americans were suffocated."
From Battle of Saipan @ Wikipedia (special note about possible unreliable source behind the motivation)
Emperor Hirohito personally found the threat of defection of Japanese civilians disturbing.[unreliable source?] Much of the community was of low caste, and there was a risk that live civilians would be surprised by generous U.S. treatment. Native Japanese sympathizers would hand the Americans a powerful propaganda weapon to subvert the "fighting spirit" of Japan in radio broadcasts. At the end of June, Hirohito sent out an imperial order encouraging the civilians of Saipan to commit suicide.[unreliable source?] The order authorized the commander of Saipan to promise civilians who died there an equal spiritual status in the afterlife with those of soldiers perishing in combat. General Hideki Tōjō intercepted the order on 30 June 1944 and delayed its sending, but it went out anyway the next day. By the time the Marines advanced on the north tip of the island, from 8–12 July 1944, most of the damage had been done.[unreliable source?] Over 20,000 Japanese civilians committed suicide in the last days of the battle to take the offered privileged place in the afterlife, some jumping from "Suicide Cliff" and "Banzai Cliff". In all, about 22,000 Japanese civilians died.
There seems to be an increase in this unconscious undercurrent where our own species is erradicating it's offspring.
One thing I find most disturbing in all this is the replacement by women of children with pets, and how they treat them as humans...