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 UK Tested Poison Gas on Indian Soldiers 
  
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 AP via rick kissell - Sep 1, 2007 
  
 UK Tested Poison Gas on Indian Soldiers 
  
 By Associated Press 
  
 LONDON --- British military scientists tested mustard gas on hundreds 
 of Indian soldiers during more than a decade of experiments that began 
 before World War II, a British newspaper reported Saturday. 
  
 The experiments to determine whether mustard gas damaged Indians' skin 
 more than British soldiers' began in the early 1930s and lasted more 
 than 10 years at a military site in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, /The 
 Guardian/ reported, citing newly discovered National Archive documents. 
  
 The tests caused large numbers of burns, some of which were so damaging 
 the subjects had to be hospitalized, a 1942 report cited by the 
 newspaper said. 
  
 "Severely burned patients are often very miserable and depressed and in 
 considerable discomfort, which must be experienced to be properly 
 realized," the report said. 
  
 The Ministry of Defense said it could not comment until Monday. 
  
 During World War II, nearly 2,000 American military personnel 
 participated in experiments conducted by the U.S. Naval Research 
 Laboratory. They were often promised weekend passes and were not told 
 the nature of the experiments, which included prolonged exposure to 
 mustard gas and Lewisite, a chemical that contains arsenic and can 
 damage the skin, eyes, respiratory and digestive tract. 
  
 The experiments in Rawalpindi were part of a much larger program 
 intended to test the effects of chemical weapons on humans, /The 
 Guardian/ reported. It said more than 20,000 British servicemen and 
 women were subjected to chemical warfare trials between 1916 and 1989 
 at the Defense Ministry's Porton Down research center in southwest 
 England. 
  
 Some of those involved in the experiments later said they had been 
 tricked into participating, and claimed they had been exposed to 
 mustard gas and hallucinogens such as LSD. 
  
 An inquiry into the deaths of some of those involved in the testing 
 concluded in 2003 that there was not enough evidence for a criminal 
 prosecution. 
  
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