# Pingdingshan Massacre and Liaoyuan Miners: Japanese Wartime Atrocities - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2121634142412833198 - Source account: [@szygls](https://x.com/szygls) - Source language: Chinese (China) - Target language: English - Duration: 1:56 - Published: 2026-11-15 - Machine translated. Check the original before quoting. - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities - Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/zh-cn/%E6%8A%9A%E9%A1%BA%E5%B9%B3%E9%A1%B6%E5%B1%B1%E6%83%A8%E6%A1%88%E4%B8%8E%E8%BE%BD%E6%BA%90%E7%9F%BF%E5%B7%A5%E4%B8%87%E4%BA%BA%E5%9D%91-%E4%BE%B5%E5%8D%8E%E6%97%A5%E5%86%9B%E6%9A%B4%E8%A1%8C.md ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities) These bones all belonged to Chinese civilians massacred by the Japanese. [0:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=3) There are more than 60 such mass graves in the Northeast alone. [0:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=6) This is the Fushun Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=9) In three hours, over 3,000 people were killed. [0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=11) Look at this compatriot. He tried to struggle and crawl out, but they stabbed him again. [0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=15) In this tiny area of just one square meter, there are eight bodies. [0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=19) The mother tried to shield her child with her body, but it was all in vain. [0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=22) Beside them was a baby less than a month old, burned along with its little blanket. [0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=26) As soon as I came in, I felt deeply oppressed. [0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=29) On September 15, 1932, our Anti-Japanese Self-Defense Forces attacked Japanese troops in Fushun, The Japanese invaders suffered heavy losses and moved to crush them. [0:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=38) But the Anti- Japanese Self- Defense Forces had to pass by this Pingdingshan, right beneath my feet, and not one resident here reported them. [0:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=45) The Japanese troops, enraged, chose revenge by massacre, and so they carried out the Pingdingshan Massacre we see here today. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=52) They killed, burned, and looted everything. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=55) More than 3,000 civilians were all killed within three hours, On average, one person died every three seconds. [1:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=62) More than 1,000 of them were children, and over 400 families were wiped out. [1:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=65) Eight hundred homes were burned to the ground, and the piles of bones are too horrific to look at. [1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=70) What you hear may just be a cold statistic, And every one of those lying below was a living person. [1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=76) Just 200 kilometers from here is another place called the Liaoyuan Miners' Mass Grave, where the miners were only 30 years old on average. [1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=83) Under threat of whips and bayonets, they had to work 16 hours a day, and in months, drained of blood and sweat, left useless, then they were packed together and thrown into the mine to die horribly. [1:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=93) Later, so many miners had died that the Japanese went straight to using cremation furnaces, and bone ash behind the mountain piled up to 40 centimeters high. [1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=100) During their 14- year invasion of China, the Japanese plundered 15 million tons of coal, but left China with the countless bones of 100,000 miners. [1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=108) If these truths are covered up, if this history is forgotten, then we are the sinners of this nation. [1:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/FLlC1lDzykxw/en/pingdingshan-massacre-and-liaoyuan-miners-japanese-wartime-atrocities?t=115) Deyun.