Mizoe Hachizo

Case Summary

The defendant was Major Mizue Hachizo, the officer in charge of the 28th Aerodrome Battalion stationed in Singosari Aerodrome, Java which also held a POW camp. There were around 1000 POWs attached to the Aerodrome for its construction and maintenance. 4 POWs escaped and were recaptured. Upon recapture they were brutally treated by soldiers under the Major Mizue Hachizo's command. Major Mizue Hachizo later told the senior British officer in the POW camp that the 4 POWs would be shot despite the protests against the illtreatment. Major Mizue Hachizo continued to order the killing without any trial, gathering the remaining POWs to witness the execution. Major Mizue Hachizo was charged with both the ill treatment of the 4 POWs as well as their killing. He was sentenced to death by hanging.

For more information see:

http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/b5b933/

http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/ae68ab/

http://http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/50a61e/

http://www.legal-tools.org/doc/f06afa/

The Singosari Aerodrome was operated by the Dutch prior to WWII and before Java's fall to the Japanese, was host to American B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers. These bombers  participated in the defence of Java as the Japanese advanced before being order to fall back to Australia 

For more information see:

https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=wLWQSU0GhZQC&pg=PA19&lpg=PA19&dq=singosari+aerodrome&source=bl&ots=6BZCW5uiP_&sig=64ZmWpExl6-lhzdar9WpBltXUxM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUjMDzsPXKAhWJcI4KHYqyB4IQ6AEINjAG#v=onepage&q=singosari%20aerodrome&f=false

http://pacificwrecks.com/airfields/indonesia/singosari/index.html