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Historical alarm bells ring in Pingdingshan
At 10 o’clock on the morning of September 16, the shrill alarm pierced the sky in Fushun. Green monuments stand, pines roar and bones groan, and Pingdingshan once again tears people’s memories.
On this day and this moment 75 years ago, in broad daylight, 3,000 unarmed innocent civilians fell to the ground with the roar of six machine guns, and their blood flowed like a river.
"Remember that history is not a continuation of hatred, and remembering the martyred compatriots is to wake up the alarm." Zhou Zhongxuan, secretary of Fushun Municipal Party Committee, said at the public sacrifice meeting of the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of Pingdingshan compatriots, "The kind and friendly Fushun people are willing to work with peace-loving people all over the world, including the Japanese people, to jointly promote world peace and development. However, we must not tolerate the ghost of Japanese militarism to reverse the case for the war of aggression and conceal the truth of the massacre that really happened. "
In addition to pingdingshan massacre survivors Yang Baoshan and Yang Yufen, nearly 180 people attended the public sacrifice, including the Japanese Consul General in Shenyang, members of the Fushun miracle Inheritance Society, Japanese lawyers and other friendly people. More than 2000 Fushun soldiers and civilians witnessed this solemn moment.
War "turns people into ghosts" Fushun "turns ghosts into people"
Fushun is a city that lives by the river. Hunhe River, like a green ribbon, meanders through the middle of the city. In Pingdingshan village, Henan province, 3,000 bones were buried under the sword of Japanese militarism. At the foot of Gaoer Mountain on the Hebei side, it is the "rebirth land" of nearly a thousand Japanese war criminals-Fushun War Criminals Management Office. In pingdingshan massacre, more than 3,000 unarmed innocent people, less than 1% escaped; Fushun transformation, nearly a thousand Japanese war criminals were not sentenced to death, all of them were released early to return to China; Japanese militarism "turned people into ghosts" and the Communist Party of China (CPC)’s leniency policy "turned ghosts into people".
At the public sacrifice meeting of the 75th anniversary of the martyrdom of compatriots in Pingdingshan, Fushun, the 85-year-old Yang Baoshan was still so excited that his planned speech had to be replaced by his son-in-law.
On September 16th, 1932, the second day of Mid-Autumn Festival, Yang Baoshan’s family was told by the Japanese army to take photos. He stood in the first row and smiled 15 meters in front of the machine gun covered with black cloth. At the moment when Heibu lifted the machine gun and spewed flames, his mother struggled to hold him down. His father and five-year-old brother were shot dead on the spot. Mother escaped the first robbery, but the Japanese started a more violent second round of shooting. When his mother died, she still kept pressing on him, and the blood flowed into his mouth, salty. The bullet entered his waist and ended up in his right leg. In order not to leave anyone alive, the Japanese army carried bayonets to check one by one. He felt the cold bayonets on him, and the Japanese shoes trampled his head. He fought back the pain and dared not move …
The reporter walked into the newly expanded remains museum, and the numerous white bones were shocking and unbearable. Within an area of 80 meters long and 5 meters wide, there are more than 800 dead compatriots’ bones, almost all of which are open-mouthed and struggling. Mothers hug their children, husbands protect their wives, and young people pounce on their parents. People want to use their bodies to block the bullets of evil, but every dream is shattered in the roar of wild animals.
Several Japanese friends stood in front of the remains museum and burst into tears.
When the Japanese war criminals were reformed in the 1950s, our country was still very difficult. However, the comrades of Fushun War Criminals Management Office told the reporter: "At that time, the prisoners ate steamed buns, but the war criminals ate rice and flour, chicken, duck and fish, and professional medical staff provided them with medical services." After returning to China, the war criminals set up the Japanese Returnees’ Federation to publicize the true history to the people, promote the friendship between China and China, and transform themselves from executioners to messengers of peace. In 1988, "China Guilian" donated 5 million yen to build a 3-meter-high white marble apology monument, which has stood in Fushun War Criminals Management Office.
"We lost the lawsuit, but we won justice."
Since the late 1980s, Japanese right-wing forces have risen, and many government officials have also made statements denying the war of aggression. This move not only angered people in Asian countries, but also angered a large number of Japanese lawyers with a sense of justice, such as Hiroshi Omiyama and Onodera Toshitaka. In July 1994, they formed a "Lawyers Group for Japanese War Victims" to conduct an investigation visit to China.
The Pingdingshan lawsuit began in 1996. In April of that year, Japanese lawyers such as Hiroshi Omiyama made a special trip to interview the old man Mo Desheng, a survivor, and expressed their willingness to provide legal services to the victims of Japanese aggression in Asian countries. Therefore, Mo Desheng, Yang Baoshan and Fang Surong entrusted a Japanese lawyer team to file a lawsuit against the Japanese government to compensate for the losses caused by the war, demanding that the Japanese government apologize and compensate the three plaintiffs for 60 million yen.
From August 14th, 1996 to May 16th, 2006, three very old men, Mo Desheng, Yang Baoshan and Fang Surong, went to Fusang for 10 times, stood in court again and again to state the atrocities of Japanese militarism, and toured major cities to preach the truth about pingdingshan massacre. The Japanese people felt the power of justice and dignity from the old people again and again. However, it is a pity that the judgment of the Tokyo District Court rejected the plaintiff’s request on the grounds that "the state has no responsibility to answer". The Tokyo High Court and the Supreme Court of Japan upheld this unfair judgment.
"Although we lost the lawsuit, we won justice." Fu Bo, president of Fushun Academy of Social Sciences, told reporters. On June 28th, 2002, in a Japanese court, the historical fact that Japanese troops ordered by the Japanese government massacred innocent civilians in Pingdingshan, Fushun, was officially recognized. This is a historic breakthrough 70 years after the tragedy, and it also spread the truth to the world.
Fu Bo told reporters such a detail: On May 13, 2005, the Tokyo High Court ruled that Pingdingshan lost the lawsuit against Japan, and lawyer Kyoko from Japan burst into tears on the spot. The old man Yang Baoshan lovingly patted Dajiang on the shoulder and said, "Don’t cry, don’t cry, son." Justice and axiom crossed national boundaries, closely linking the plaintiff and the attorney separated only by a strip of water.
After the massacre of that year, in order to cover up the crime, the Japanese army concentrated the bodies of the victims at the foot of the mountain, poured gasoline on them for burning, and then collapsed the mountain with explosives to bury the remains of the victims. Now, in the face of hard facts, history has finally restored the truth.
The first old man standing in a Japanese court, Mo Desheng, was saddened and resentful after hearing that the plaintiff lost the case in the second instance of the Tokyo High Court in Japan in 2005, and died ten days later. However, the just cause will never be interrupted. According to Fushun statistics, there are still six survivors in pingdingshan massacre. Although they are all very old, everyone said that if they are alive, they must testify for history.
The staff of notary offices in Liaoning Province and Fushun City took pains to find every survivor in pingdingshan massacre, preserved their voices and videos, and notarized the testimony of witnesses. Zhang Xiufang, deputy director of Fushun Notary Office, said that after notarization, the survivors of the tragedy have legal significance and can be in line with international standards. No matter whether the parties appear in court or not, or even whether they are alive, this notarized material is just like my statement in court on the spot.
Take history as a mirror and face the future
On November 15, 1932, two months after the pingdingshan massacre, Shanghai News took the lead in revealing the truth of the tragedy with the title "Fushun villagers were all slaughtered", which made the world public outcry. Later that month, Edward Hunter, a reporter from American International News Agency, disguised as a priest and entered the scene of the massacre, which was "forbidden to foreigners from all countries". Standing on the Pingdingshan, he was "shocked" by the blood-stained clothes fragments and the uplifted new soil, and came to the conclusion that "the massacre of 3,000 people in Fushun, men, women and children were spared, is a conclusive fact."
Japan was accused by thousands of people in the League of Nations. When voting on whether Japan should withdraw from the northeast of China, 43 countries in the League of Nations and 42 countries except Japan voted that Japan should withdraw from the northeast of China. However, after Japan withdrew from the League of Nations, the League of Nations at that time did not continue to take measures to stop Japan’s aggression, and pingdingshan massacre’s guilt was not investigated, which was a sorrow in the development of human society.
In 1949, the humiliated people of China finally stood up. On the morning of April 5, 1951, more than 10,000 representatives from all walks of life in Fushun held a public sacrifice meeting to commemorate the dead compatriots in Pingdingshan. On November 12th, 1971, Fushun decided to build Pingdingshan Class Education Museum (later renamed pingdingshan massacre Ruins Memorial Hall). On September 16th, 1972, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of pingdingshan massacre, people from all walks of life in Fushun held the inauguration ceremony of "Pingdingshan Martyrs’ Bones Museum". Over the past decades, pingdingshan massacre Ruins Memorial Hall has received more than 5 million domestic visitors and more than 300,000 foreign groups and individuals.
In 2005, with the efforts of Fushun Municipal Party Committee and the support of the Central Committee and Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, more than 40 million yuan was invested in the large-scale expansion of Pingdingshan Bones Museum. Build a 4,708-square-meter comprehensive exhibition hall, renovate pingdingshan massacre ruins, monuments and squares, install glass protective covers on the remains pool, and increase constant temperature and humidity facilities to effectively protect the remains and improve the display function; The memorial square in front of the monument has been expanded from 1000 square meters to 1800 square meters. According to the exhibition theme and educational function, the exhibition hall consists of five exhibition halls, such as Preface Hall, The Northeast Fall to Liaodong for Anti-Japanese War, The Japanese Army’s atrocities are terrible, The irrefutable evidence denounces the lawsuit like a mountain, and Taking history as a warning bell is always ringing. Among them, the biggest design highlight is the semi-circular landscape painting exhibition area in the second exhibition hall, which uses the sound and photoelectric system to make arc screen films. Within 10 minutes, it focuses on how the peaceful and quiet Pingdingshan village was destroyed in a flash by the tragic massacre of the Japanese invaders, giving people a strong visual shock.
At the public sacrifice meeting, China organizers and Japanese friends put up the same slogan: Take history as a mirror and face the future. Xiao Jingquan, director of pingdingshan massacre Memorial Hall, said that although pingdingshan massacre left an unforgettable pain for the people of China, the peace-loving people of China deeply knew that history should not only be written with blood and hatred, but peace and development were the main melody melody melody. Facing the future, we will cherish the hard-won peaceful life today, let all peace-loving people in the world join hands and let the sunshine of peace shine in every corner of the world.
Chain connection
Pingdingshan massacre
Pingdingshan is located in the south of Fushun city, east of the pit of the west open pit mine, about 4 kilometers away from the city. It used to be a small earth mountain. Due to the eastward expansion of the western open pit mine, some miners settled here, forming the later Pingdingshan Village. The village lived in more than 400 families with a population of about 3,000, mostly miners and small traders. At that time, it was a relatively prosperous small village.
On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival on September 15th, 1932, the Broadsword Team of Liaoning People’s Self-Defense Force showed Chinese’s determination never to be enslaved on the first anniversary of "September 18th", and rushed into Fushun city via Qianjinbao and Pingdingshan, attacked the Japanese garrison in Fushun, attacked Fushun charcoal mine occupied by Japanese invaders, destroyed many mining facilities, and killed and injured 11 Japanese. The next day-September 16th, the Japanese invaders, in the name of "bandits", dispatched more than 200 Japanese garrison troops and gendarmerie troops, surrounded Pingdingshan Village, and carried out crazy revenge on unarmed innocent villagers. In the name of "taking photos" and "holding a meeting", they drove all more than 3,000 villagers to the lawn below the mountain, strafed them with machine guns and killed them with bayonets, creating an inhuman and appalling tragedy. Later, the Japanese invaders used gasoline to burn the corpse, shot down the mountain, burned the house and other means in an attempt to cover up the crime. Pingdingshan massacre has celebrated its 75th anniversary. (Guangming Daily/Bi Yucai Miao Jiasheng)
Editor: Cao Jin