Chapter 435: Qingbei Trial 2
Justice Meng Zhengchu got up, but did not drop the hammer. It was an extraordinary trial, and there was no legal basis for it.
"Therefore, before the trial officially begins, it is up to me to read out the Charter of the Tribunal.
Article 1: The judgment of this tribunal shall be based on natural law, and no defendant shall avoid trial on the grounds of jurisdiction or retroactive period. For natural law has existed since time immemorial and will always be applicable to all intelligent beings on this earth.
Article 2: No defendant may exonerate himself on the pretext of carrying out an order from his superiors unless he can prove that he has made a moral choice for his guilt......"
Before the justice's words fell, Tu Peng in the defendant's dock suddenly became angry.
"Mortals are not qualified to judge me!" he roared angrily, "Let Sun Xiang come, I will defeat him!"
Meng Zhengchu was not angry, he responded in a calm and solemn voice: "As an individual, I have no right to judge anyone. But I am authorized to try anyone by law. ”
"Who gave you the authorization?" Tu Peng sneered, "Sun Xiang?"
At this moment, the side door of the courtroom opened, and the grand jury of the Qingbei trial entered.
Ye Cong was the first person to enter the judgment hall, followed by more than a dozen city defense soldiers, as well as more than 100 ordinary workers, planters, medical personnel, teachers, etc.
"In the name of mortals, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
After that, a jury of 100 practitioners was present. Walking in the first place was actually Lu Ning, who had not been seen for a long time, followed by Song Xing and Liu Kuo, and some cultivators who came to support Binhai after the Dayjin Alliance.
Lu Ning first smiled at Sun Xiang in the auditorium, and then said:
"In the name of Xuanfa, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
Xu Yongzhi and his daughter Xu Yishan joined forces and led the jury of the Academy of Xuanke to attend.
"In the name of science, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
Until this time, Tu Peng and the other defendants still had contemptuous sneers on the corners of their mouths. But soon he couldn't laugh anymore.
Shi Yun appeared in a white robe with extraordinary momentum. Behind her were the Fangs King and You Qiao, as well as Shu Ziqian, Bai Gugu and other demon clans.
"In the name of the Demon Clan, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
A group of translucent figures cut through the walls and sat on the jury bench. The one at the front is wearing a military uniform from the Republic of China. Liu Kuo on the side was shocked, this was actually the senior battalion commander of the plateau who had been absent from Huitou Mountain for a long time.
Battalion Commander Gao's soul nodded at Liu Kuo. Around him, there were more heroic souls. They were dressed in the clothes of all dynasties and generations, but they were all black haired, black-eyed, and yellow-skinned.
"In the name of the soul, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
There was a clear chirp from the sky, and the roof of the gymnasium opened slightly, and some snowflakes fell. A large fiery red bird descended from the sky and landed lightly on a corner of the high dome.
A giant white tiger with green eyes jumped up to the dome along the outer wall of the gymnasium, standing opposite the firebird.
Suzaku's voice resounded throughout the audience:
"In the name of the gods, we authorize Justice Meng Zhengchu to hear this case!"
As Suzaku's words fell, a faint aura appeared above the six juries. These auras spanned the void and shrouded the judge Meng Zhengchu in the judgment seat.
In an instant, his mortal body erupted with dazzling golden light. When he spoke again, it was no longer like a human voice.
"Defendant, do you question the court's qualifications to try!"
Tu Peng had nothing to say.
This sound of heaven descending from heaven carries the power of the brilliant sky. All the eleven defendants bowed their heads, unable to show any resistance.
The old god of Sun Da was there, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. Yu Xiaoyue turned her head to look at him, and knew that all this was probably all arranged by Sun Xiang.
"If there is no doubt. Justice Meng Zhengchu announced, "The trial has begun. ”
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Zhuo Yao, the representative of the prosecutor, stood up first to read out the general indictment, her voice was beautiful but not warm, and her statement was extremely stern.
“...... The targets of this prosecution are 11 senior military and political generals of the former Songhe Cultivator Group, including Tu Peng and Jia Hao, as well as two criminal organizations, the Songhe Branch of the New World Society and the Songhe Eugenics Research Institute. Crimes include crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide ......"
“...... The evils we seek to judge are orchestrated, extremely vicious, and destructive. The civilized world cannot tolerate these atrocities being ignored and left unjustified, much less can they be recurred......"
Immediately afterwards, the indictment listed various incriminating evidence during the period when the Tu Peng group ruled Songhe. Zhuo Yao continued to read that a total of 530 civilians were tied up in the square and tortured to death just because they suspected that civilians were stealing food.
Jin Dahao, Ye Yunshan, Shi Deshui, Lu Liangping, Du Qianyao...... These are the names of the victims of this crime, but we have been unable to identify many more bones because they were completely destroyed. ”
Zhuo Yao nodded to the trial staff, and the other party turned on the projection screen to play the photos.
The photo shows the excavation site of a mass grave on the outskirts of Matsukawa City, where large numbers of decomposing corpses mixed with dirt are piled up in the clearing. Many staff members wore masks and tried to clean up and piece together the bodies that had been haphazardly buried.
"These are the two smallest bodies that we have exhumed in mass grave No. 124. ”
The photo on the screen flipped through, and in the new photo, there were two small skeletons. Shockingly, an adult skeleton was hugging them tightly.
"This is supposed to be their mother, and the staff at the site could not separate them, so they had to be buried as they were. Zhuo Yao still had a cold attitude, "The forensic doctor believes that they were buried alive." ”
Crying was heard from the auditorium.
Zhuo Yao continued to read the indictment.
In order to facilitate the management of the industrial and mining production departments, the Matsukawa Cultivators organized the injured or disobedient civilian workers to drive them into the abandoned mines, and then detonate the explosives. In just a few ruins on the outermost part, more than five thousand mutilated corpses have been removed.
In order to study the genetic factors of the awakening of practitioners, more than 20,000 civilian women suffered from systematic QJ at the secret base of the Matsukawa Eugenics Research Institute. All test mothers or infants who do not meet the criteria are to be summarily terminated and cremated.
According to the testimonies of the cleaners who worked in it, during the busiest three months, they had to burn at least two hundred bodies a day, some of which were not even dead.
The crimes listed in the indictment, Zhuo Yao read for two hours without stopping. This is still the truth that can be unearthed in a few months, and more tragedies may be buried deeper in the earth.
These atrocities occurred every day during the years when the Tu Peng group ruled Songhe. But for everyone in the gallery, including the many human cities that stood guard in front of the radio, these crimes were unheard of and chilling.
For the vast majority of people, before this trial, they had only a vague understanding of the crimes of the Tu Peng group. In these troubled times, the right of civilians to live is not guaranteed, and it does not stop at Songhe. In many human cities, there have been cases where civilians and cultivators had disputes and were killed, but in the end, they were killed.
Many people emotionally believe that what happened in Songhe is essentially no different from these, and that Tu Peng is just more unlucky to fall into Binhai's hands.
But when this heinous bloody case was revealed, everyone was silent.
"Before the night of the catastrophe, according to the statistics of that year, the total population of the five counties and four districts of Songhe was more than 8.6 million. Now, Songhe has a total population of less than 3.6 million. In other words, without directly facing the demon army, five million innocent people lost their lives. ”
When Zhuo Yao made her final statement, she finally couldn't hold back her tears:
"The tragedy is not about five million people being brutally persecuted to death. The real tragedy is the brutal persecution of someone to death, which happened five million times!"