{"id":90899,"date":"2019-06-30T15:56:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-30T22:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=90899"},"modified":"2019-06-30T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T22:56:48","slug":"japan-bombed-military-bases-of-european-colonies-in-asia-not-civilians-unlike-the-allies-dresden-hiroshima-nagasaki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/06\/30\/japan-bombed-military-bases-of-european-colonies-in-asia-not-civilians-unlike-the-allies-dresden-hiroshima-nagasaki\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan bombed Military bases of European colonies in Asia, not civilians unlike the Allies (Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jan<\/em>aka<\/span> Perera<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

Dilrook has said that ‘ Japan was the only country that bombed Sri Lanka”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is my reply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Easter Sunday Raid<\/strong> (or Battle of\nCeylon<\/strong>) was an air attack by carrier<\/a>-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy<\/a> against Colombo<\/a>, Ceylon<\/a> (now Sri Lanka<\/a>), on Easter Sunday<\/a>, 5 April 1942, during the South-East Asian theatre<\/a> of World War II<\/a>. This attack was part of the Indian Ocean Raid<\/a>, and was followed a few days later by a\nsimilar attack on Trincomalee<\/a>. The targets were British<\/a> warships, harbour installations, and air\nbases; the object was to disrupt the war effort of British Empire \/\nCommonwealth<\/a> nations and\nforce the British Eastern Fleet<\/a> to leave Asian<\/a> waters.  ( Wikipedia – Easter\nSunday Raid – https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Easter_Sunday_Raid<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nSingapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, British occupied Ceylon (later\nSri Lanka) became a central base for British operations in Southeast Asia, and\nthe port at Trincomalee regained its historically strategic importance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because\nCeylon was an indispensable strategic bastion for the British Royal Navy, it\nbecame an irresistible military target for the Japanese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nJapanese in their bombing raids over Ceylon in April 1942 targeted only British\nmilitary bases in Colombo and Trincomalee, and not civilian locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nJapanese also bombed the mental asylum at Angoda, mistaking it for the fuel\ntanks at nearby Kolonnawa<\/a>.  There was no Red Cross painted on\nthe Roof of the Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nwas what is now called co – lateral damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nstands in contrast to the conduct of the the Allies who\ndeliberately targeted innocent civilians in the Anglo – American raid\nover Dresden, Germany in February 1945, and the Americans who mercilessly\nbombed innocent men, women and children using Nuclear Bombs over Hiroshima and\nNagasaki, Japan in August 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janaka Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janaka Perera Dilrook has said that ‘ Japan was the only country that bombed Sri Lanka” Here is my reply: The Easter Sunday Raid (or Battle of Ceylon) was an air attack by carrier-based aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy against Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), on Easter Sunday, 5 April 1942, during the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. This attack was part of the Indian Ocean Raid, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-janaka-perera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}