Pingdingshan Massacre and Liaoyuan Miners: Japanese Wartime Atrocities

These bones all belonged to Chinese civilians massacred by the Japanese.

There are more than 60 such mass graves in the Northeast alone.

This is the Fushun Pingdingshan Massacre Memorial Hall.

In three hours, over 3,000 people were killed.

Look at this compatriot. He tried to struggle and crawl out, but they stabbed him again.

In this tiny area of just one square meter, there are eight bodies.

The mother tried to shield her child with her body, but it was all in vain.

Beside them was a baby less than a month old, burned along with its little blanket.

As soon as I came in, I felt deeply oppressed.

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.

But the Anti- Japanese Self- Defense Forces had to pass by this Pingdingshan, right beneath my feet, and not one resident here reported them.

The Japanese troops, enraged, chose revenge by massacre, and so they carried out the Pingdingshan Massacre we see here today.

They killed, burned, and looted everything.

More than 3,000 civilians were all killed within three hours, On average, one person died every three seconds.

More than 1,000 of them were children, and over 400 families were wiped out.

Eight hundred homes were burned to the ground, and the piles of bones are too horrific to look at.

What you hear may just be a cold statistic, And every one of those lying below was a living person.

Just 200 kilometers from here is another place called the Liaoyuan Miners' Mass Grave, where the miners were only 30 years old on average.

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.

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.

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.

If these truths are covered up, if this history is forgotten, then we are the sinners of this nation.

Deyun.