The heinous crimes committed by the Japanese in China are truly intolerable. It can be said that in the forties and fifties of the twentieth century (around the 1930s ~ 1950s), it was the dark age of China. It was a gloomy period for the entire Chinese nation, and the land of China was also persecuted by invaders.

With the excavation of mass grave sites in many parts of China, the heinous crimes of the Japanese army have once again been presented to the world. No matter how much they deny it, in the face of this ironclad fact, they cannot shirk this evil act that hurts nature and reason!

When it comes to Shanxi, it is estimated that many people have an impression that there are abundant coal mines. But many people don't know that it is also often closely related to the lives of tens of thousands of people. Many people have lost their lives at the bottom of the mine, some due to natural disasters and some due to man-made disasters.

The mass grave of Datong Coal Mine is located in Nangou, Coal Yukou, Datong City, Shanxi Province.

During the Japanese invasion and occupation of Datong, they brutally plundered Datong's coal resources. From Shandong, Jiangsu, Henan, Anhui, Hebei and other places, he caught Zhuangding and deceived people to work as laborers in Datong Coal Mine. The miners served hard labor for more than 10 hours a day under extremely harsh conditions, and countless laborers were tortured to death under the Japanese fascist rule.

After the laborers died, their bodies were dumped in the barren mountains and mountains, creating a "mass grave" full of bones. Among them, more than 60,000 miners died in the Nangou mass grave, which is the largest mass grave in Datong.

During the eight years of occupation of the Datong Coal Mine, the Japanese army implemented the policy of "exchanging people for coal". More than 1,400,000 tons of coal resources were plundered, resulting in the death of more than 60,000 miners. On average, one person dies for every 230 tons of coal. There are as many as 14 large "mass graves" in existence!

The relatively complete "mass grave" in the south ditch of the coal Yukou mine is composed of two holes. The upper cave is 6.7 meters wide and more than 40 meters deep, and the lower cave is 4.5 meters wide and more than 70 meters deep. The cave was stacked with bones, some of which had their legs amputated. Some break their spines, some pierce their heads, and some crawl towards the hole...... The tragic situation is truly unbearable.

This once again revealed the crimes committed by the Japanese army in China, and everyone was outraged!

Under the supervision of the Japanese gendarmerie, the mine police, the spy team, and the foreign dog team, the miners mined coal and worked underground for 12 to 16 hours a day. There is an anomaly in the mine. Still forced to go down the well. If there is an accident, it is only to grab the plane and not save people.

In 1938, the No. 9 tunnel of the Coal Yukou Mine was flooded, and the Japanese still drove the workers down the mine, but the groundwater rushed out, trapping more than 120 people underground for 15 days, and all but 8 people starved to death.

In June 1941, the unsupported west pit of Baidong was about to collapse, and more than 70 people were still driven down to dig coal. Outcome. The roof of the coal mine collapsed and all of them were crushed to death.

In the spring of 1943, the face of the No. 4 coal mining tunnel in the south of Xinzhou Mine collapsed, crushing 8 workers. One of them, half exposed, was still alive. The devil at the scene slashed the worker to death with a knife and told the others to go to the excavator.

The miners get a meal card every day and fold 5 jiao of counterfeit coins. It is only 15 yuan per month, and the salary of the small boss is more than 100 yuan.

The miners ate wotou, black bean cakes and moldy "Xingya noodles". More than 110 people slept in a mud house more than 30 meters long and four or five meters wide. Cover the sack sheets, cement paper bags. If you are sick, you will not be given medicine, and if you can't get up, you will be carried and thrown into the "mass grave" by the corpse pulling team. Those suspected of being infectious diseases were sent to the "burning field" and burned alive before they could breathe.

According to the local older generation, the wild wolves and wild dogs in Datong are so fat that they are all fattened by the dead corpses of the "mass grave"!

Coincidentally, in Jiangsu, Anhui area. There is also irrefutable evidence of the atrocities of the Japanese army. Among them, I have to say that the Huainan Datong mine mass grave.

In June 1938, after the Japanese invaded and occupied Huainan in Anhui Province, they established the "Huainan Carbon Mine Co., Ltd." and occupied the Datong Coal Mine.

Under the threat of bayonets and sticks of the Japanese devils. Workers perform slave-like labor all day long. Living a hellish life, suffering inhuman torture, the number of people dying of exhaustion, sickness, freezing to death, stoned to death, and beating to death is increasing day by day. Especially in the autumn of 1942, when the disease was prevalent, there were more deaths.

At that time, there were more than two tall reed mats piled up at the entrance of the 'welfare section' every day. In the morning, a dead person can still be swept with a reed. But in the afternoon, when the reed mat ran out, he casually threw the corpse outside. As a result, there were corpses everywhere beside the ditch, on the side of the road, and under the well. Under a small bridge, there were so many corpses in the pile that the flowing water was blocked!

In the spring of 1943, the Japanese invaders forced workers to dig three large pits on the south side of the Chase Mine to bury the bones of the miners. These three big pits are what people call the "Huainan Datong Mine Mass Grave".

After the 'mass grave', all the dead people, even some who have not yet died, are dragged away and buried. According to the extremely incomplete statistics of the Japanese Mining Bureau at that time, more than 13,000 miners' bodies were buried in the 'mass grave'!

Moreover, this is a significant reduction in the actual number of statistics.

In order to extract the blood and sweat of the workers, the Japanese invaders used all kinds of vicious methods: they treated the miners as if they were slaves, slaughtering and whipping them at will.

Under the coercion of bayonets and leather whips, the workers were subjected to 12-16 hours of slave-like unpaid labor every day. Due to overwork, hunger, cold, and scorching heat, some workers fainted while digging coals and carrying baskets. When the Japanese overseers saw it, they often said that they were faking illness. Without saying anything, he raised his whip and carried out a tragic European beating......

At that time, there was a worker named "Chen Dongxiang" in the Datong Coal Mine, who was assigned to transport coal to the mine in a small car.

One day, due to hunger and exhaustion, he fainted in the ditch while pushing the cart. It happened to be spotted by one of the overseers, who raised his club and hit him in the head without asking any questions. The beat made Chen Dongxiang bleed, and within two days, he passed away.

In the minds of the Japanese invaders, the life of a miner was less than a piece of coal. They don't care about the dangers lurking in the mines, they just want the highest yield.

One day in the summer of 1941, miners Yu Yechu and Li Fuxian and 11 others were digging coal in the face of the North Fourth Tank.

Suddenly, I saw a pool of water on the face of the palm. In this dangerous situation, the workers immediately withdrew from the tunnel and moved to a safe place. When the Japanese overseers found out, they beat them back with sticks.

As soon as I descended into the mine, the surging groundwater swept in. In the blink of an eye, the entire face of the palm was submerged. Eleven miners were submerged in the water, screaming for the ground, desperately struggling to the exit. However, the exit has been blocked!

The water continues to rise, with 9 out of 11 people already engulfed in the floodwaters. Only Yu Yechu and Li Fuxian climbed a pillar and lay on the wall of the pit. Fortunately, there was a small hole next to it that was not blocked, and I could barely maintain my breathing.

Later, because the Japanese invaders were reluctant to abandon the thick coal seam, they called on the workers to re-mine the flooded area. Yu Yechu and Li Fuxian were the two of them, and they escaped death and were rescued by their co-workers.

Meng Guangli, a miner, also lost his life because of coal.

One day, Meng Guangli was digging coal in the Nanliu Groove Coal Area. The cinders on their heads fell straight down, and experienced miners knew that this was a sign of a coal seam.

Meng Guangli immediately proposed: "The coal seam is going to collapse, and it can't be done anymore!" ”

However, the Japanese overseer forced Lao Meng to continue to work in the danger zone. After a while, only a "boom" was heard, and the huge coal seam collapsed, and Meng Guangli was stoned to death in the mine.

Under the clubs and whips of the Japanese, the miners risked their lives and performed slave-like labor, creating a great deal of wealth, only to get sickness and death.

The old workers of the Datong embedded mine all complained:

At that time, the workers worked for a day's work and were only given three and a half litres of moldy bran (fu) noodles. This kind of noodles is bitter, sour, and smelly, and you can find four or five small red-headed insects in a steamed bun! When I ate it, my stomach swelled uncomfortably. Coupled with heavy exertion and drinking coal water from the sewage ditch, many people vomited and diarrhea, had a high fever, and died within a few days.

What's worse is that the disease is extremely contagious. In 1939 alone, more than 6,000 people died. There is a Badao workshop in Juren Village, where more than 500 miners live, and in less than two months, all of them died.

For the sick workers, the Japanese devils not only did not give medical treatment. Moreover, they also threw living people into the "mass grave" at every turn.

When it came to the crime committed by the Japanese devils in the Datong Coal Mine, Dong Debao, a retired veteran worker, gritted his teeth with hatred.

"One year, I fell ill with my father," he said. Before I was dead, the Japanese devils had someone roll me up with an ased mat and throw me into a 'mass grave'.

My father was anxious and asked them, 'Why are you burying my son when he is not dead?' ’

The Japanese devil who killed a thousand knives said that my father was resisting them, so he kicked him to death.

On my way to the 'mass grave', I was rescued by a worker brother who secretly hid me in his home, leaving me alive. ”

Master Dong also said: "Before the worker was born, he just had abscesses on his body, and he was thrown into the 'mass grave'. It happened that an old man from a nearby village was passing by, and when he heard someone moaning in the pit, he went down to rescue him. ”

Dong Laohan finally said angrily: "Who knows how many people were thrown alive into the 'mass grave', and unfortunately died without being discovered?!" ”

According to the recollections of local survivors: to prevent the miners from escaping and to suppress their resistance. The Japanese invaders established a set of fascist organizations and systems in the Odori Coal Mine. For example, the gendarmerie, the mine team, the fugitive surveillance post, the plainclothes reconnaissance team, and the five-person joint sit-down method, etc.

If anyone flees, he will be severely beaten when he is caught, and even if he does not see the 'Hades', he will shed a layer of skin and become a cripple who is worse than death. If anyone resists the slightest, he will be given the hat of 'fornicating with the Communist Party' and sent to the garrison to be punished.

There are many punishments in the garrison, such as sitting in a water prison, closing a standing cage, going to a gallows, sleeping on a nail bed, sitting on a tiger chair, digging out hearts, skinning, and so on! (To be continued......)