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Nanjing Massacre on December 13, 1937
On this day, 88 years ago, December 13, 1937 (November 11, 1937 in the lunar calendar), the Nanjing Massacre: an unforgettable pain-let us remember the national pain. After killing people, this inhuman Japanese officer proudly took pictures of the ear of a severed head. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese invading army occupied Nanjing. Under the command of Ishigen Matsui, commander of the Central China Dispatching Force, and Gu Shoufu, commander of the 6th Division, a six-week bloody massacre was carried out on China soldiers and Nanjing people. It is reported that the Japanese army massacred 28 cases in Nanjing, including more than 190,000 people who were collectively shot and buried alive; in 858 cases of scattered massacres, more than 150,000 bodies were buried alone. The Japanese army massacred more than 300,000 Nanjing citizens and China officers and soldiers who laid down their weapons in six weeks. Toshio Ota, a Japanese sergeant who had participated in the destruction of corpses on the bank of the Yangtze River, confessed that he and Anda Shaozuo had processed more than 100,000 corpses at Xiaguan Wharf in Nanjing, of which more than 30,000 were buried and burned, and the rest were thrown into the Yangtze River. This world-shocking atrocity was widely condemned by world public opinion. In 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East pointed out in its resolution to try Japanese war criminals that "the Japanese soldiers came to insult this city like a group of indulgent barbarians" and "committed murder, rape, robbery, and arson." After trial by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Ishione Matsui was sentenced to hanging. Gu Shoufu was extradited to the China government and executed in 1947. This was a heinous crime committed by Japanese imperialism during the war of aggression against China. December 13, 1937 AD. Nanjing, a city without resistance, was sunk in the sea of blood. On the morning of the 13th, the Japanese army's Gu Shoufu Division first entered Nanjing through Zhonghua Gate and massacred the refugee areas gathered on North Zhongshan Road and Zhongyang Road. As a result, a brutal massacre began. The next day, the other three divisions entered the urban areas of north and south of Nanjing and carried out large-scale massacres. Nanjing, the historical capital, has fallen into the darkest days in history. On the 13th, about 100,000 refugees and disarmed China soldiers were surrounded by the Japanese army and forced to the beach along the Yanziji River. Dozens of machine guns fired crazily. Suddenly, bodies covered the river and the water stopped flowing. At least 50,000 people were brutally killed. On the 14th, the Japanese army massacred more than 7000 refugees and unarmed military police outside the West Gate of the Han Dynasty. On the bank of the river, corpses were scattered and rivers of blood flowed into the river. On the night of the 15th, more than 900 Nanjing soldiers and civilians captured by the Japanese army were taken to the riverside of the torpedo camp at Shangyuanmen Gate. They were massacred. Except for nine people who narrowly escaped, all the rest were killed. On the 16th, the Japanese army massacred tens of thousands of our innocent compatriots in the Xiaguan Coal Port and Gulou Sitiao Alley area. On the 17th, the Japanese army massacred more than 3000 of our compatriots at Shangyuanmen in Xiaguan and killed four to five hundred people in the Sacha River. On the 18th, the Japanese army massacred 57,000 China compatriots, men, women and children in Caoxie Gorge in Xiaguan."First, machine guns were fired, then bayonets were used to kill them indiscriminately, and finally kerosene was poured on them, set fire to them, and all their bones were thrown into the river." Before and after this, the Japanese army also massacred 28730 captured China soldiers and refugees in the Shangxin River area. Bodies were everywhere and human blood stained the ground. Nanjing became a bloody hell on earth. Jiro Suzuki, a military reporter for Japan's Tokyo Nihon Shimbun, wrote: "I accompanied the Japanese army who captured Nanjing into the city. I stayed in the city for four days and witnessed countless atrocities committed by the Japanese army." "On December 13th, an extremely horrific and tragic massacre was seen on the city wall near Zhongshanmen. The captives lined up on the twenty-five-meter-wide wall. Many Japanese soldiers, holding bayonets, roared in unison and rushed to the captives 'chests or stomachs. One after another, stabbed and fell outside the city. I saw the splashing blood of blood spraying into the air. The gloomy atmosphere made people's hair stand on end. I stood there, stunned and at a loss. However, some of the captives had a sneer on their faces, and some laughed as if nothing had happened, waiting for death." Masaoka Imai, a military reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, said: "On the night of December 15th, on the road in front of the Asahi Shimbun office in Dafang Lane, I saw thousands of people crowded with them. The endless crowd of China was rushed to the Shimonoseki Slaughterhouse. On the bank of the Yangtze River, where the sky was dimly lit, there were black corpses piled like mountains. There were always fifty or even more than a hundred people crawling in the mountain. They were forced by Japanese bayonets to drag the corpses around and throw them into the river. After the homework was completed, the coolies were lined up on the bank of the Yangtze River, da! Da! Da! There was a burst of machine guns, and I saw my face facing towards the sky, turning over and falling to the ground, leaping into the sky, and all fell into the river one by one and were swept away by the rolling waves." According to a Japanese officer present at the operation,"About 20,000 China people were killed here. "Chongshantang in Nanjing City organized a" Chongzi Burial Team "in the refugee area, with four teams. Starting from this month, a total of 112266 bodies have been collected from Zhonghua Gate and Tongji Gate in the south, from Shuixi Gate in the west, and from Zhongshan Gate in the east. The Nanjing Branch of the World Red Cross began collecting and burying bodies on December 22. On the first day, 129 bodies were buried in Qingliang Mountain and 650 bodies were buried in Wangjiangji and other places outside Zhonghua Gate. On December 28, 6468 pieces were collected and buried in Pude Temple outside Zhonghua Gate, and later gradually increased to 9721 pieces. Their work continued until the end of the next summer. It was not until the end of October that the figures were summarized and a total of 43071 bodies of men and women were buried. The Red Cross Society of China buried more than 22300 bodies. In addition, the Japanese army also disposed of a large number of bodies. According to Toshio Ota, the commander of the Nanjing Anchorage Command in Japan, the command "disposed" of 100,000 bodies in the Shimonoseki area, using 30 ships, 10 trucks, and 800 soldiers responsible for carrying the bodies. According to incomplete statistics, the Japanese army killed more than 300,000 China people in the Nanjing Massacre! This is an unprecedented record of atrocities in human history. The crying baby Japanese invaders held a city ceremony. Slogans celebrating the fall of Nanjing appeared in Tokyo, Japan. Japanese monks were participating in military training. A Nanjing citizen was bitten by a wolfdog. The corpse burial team picked up the body of a child killed by inhuman Japanese soldiers. The Japanese invaders used living people as rakes and laughed fiercely. China civilians who are about to be killed are saying their last prayers. A humiliated Nanjing woman The body of a raped and murdered woman can no longer hear her parents 'calls


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