Chapter 156: Mass Grave
Although what the old ghost said has an element of self-boasting, he is right. Let's put aside whether it saved our lives or not, but at least it saved us a lot of trouble.
Think about it, if there were no five grenades thrown by the old ghost just now, what kind of situation would it be? I still remember the time when I was on the ghost ship in the Caribbean, so many scenes of resurrection of the undead, and we had to fight hard to get out.
However, it almost killed us that time. At that time, if it weren't for Dickens, I really couldn't imagine what the consequences would be.
This time the situation was very similar to that one, but the scene in front of me was more like a mass grave. This reminds me of going to the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall with Duoduo and seeing the scene of mass graves.
In fact, in China, there are many sites of mass graves. As far as I know, there are more than one place, such as: Nanjing Massacre Mass Grave, Liaoning Fuxin Mass Grave, Jinan Pipashan Mass Grave, Maoyang Mass Grave, Shanxi Datong Coal Yukou Mass Grave, Xiamen Wutong Mass Grave, Huainan Datong Mine Mass Grave and Fengfeng Village West Mass Grave, Liaoning Fushun Pingdingshan Mass Grave, Fengman Mass Grave and so on.
These are all records of the various evil deeds committed by the Japanese army on the land of China.
"Mass grave" refers to a grave where more than one person is buried. When a large group of people die and want to bury their bodies, mass graves are used. It occurs in times of God, epidemics, genocide and war.
Mass graves are set up for different purposes, and are used to stop the spread of epidemics during natural disasters; In the case of genocide, it is used as a cover for war crimes.
"Mass grave", a term exclusive to Japanese fascists.
The vast majority of the people buried in the mass graves were innocent Chinese people who had been massacred by the Japanese invaders, or who had been abused and tortured to death by Japanese mine owners and owners. The burial site is also a ravine, hillside, natural pit, etc., designated or chosen by the colonists at will; In terms of burial methods, some are buried, or buried side by side or stacked together; Others are left unburied. Throwing corpses in the wilderness.
The "10,000 people" mentioned in the mass grave are not exactly the exact number, maybe thousands, maybe tens of thousands, and at least hundreds. According to the causes of formation, it can be divided into three types: innocent slaughter, torture and killing in the process of building large-scale projects, and cruel abuse in the process of plundering mineral resources.
In China, where the footprints of Japanese aggression have passed. Mass graves can be found almost everywhere.
According to the reliable research of Professor Li Binggang of the Liaoning Academy of Social Sciences, 35 mass graves have been found in Liaoning Province alone, and the death toll is at least 586,000.
More than 6,500 bones have been cleared out of the mass grave in Nanshan Mountain, Taiji, Beipiao, Liaoning Province. In some places, it is piled up to seven layers. This figure does not include massacres on the scale of hundreds of people.
As of 2014, more than 80 mass graves have been found across the country, and more than 700,000 compatriots have died.
What is certain. There are still some mass graves that have not been discovered and excavated. And a considerable number of tragic deaths were burned by the invaders in the furnace of man-remelting.
The "mass grave" in Fuxin, Liaoning Province is located in Nanshan of Sunjiawan, Taiping District, Fuxin City. Covering an area of five square kilometers, the remains of 70,000 miners are buried. Most of them died between 1937 and 1945 under the brutal persecution and oppression of the Japanese invaders.
Fuxin Coal Mine is one of the large-scale coal mines in China. On October 1, 1936, the puppet "Manchuria Coal Mine Co., Ltd." established the "Fuxin Mining Institute" and began to plunder Fuxin's coal in an all-round way, and fraudulently recruited a large number of laborers from Hebei, Shandong and other provinces in Guannei.
Japanese imperialism plundered China's coal resources. Implement a policy of "human flesh mining", regardless of whether the miners live or die. caused roofing, water penetration, and gas explosions, devouring the lives of countless miners; Economically, the exploitation of miners caused a large number of miners to die young. Adopt a high-pressure policy in politics, beating, scolding, and abusing Chinese miners at will.
Coupled with poor sanitation, the plague was prevalent. The dead were numerous. The bones of these people accumulated more and more, and finally formed a mass grave.
The Sunjiawan mass grave is a well-preserved cemetery so far, surrounded by carved stone piles of "full charcoal cemetery".
In 1968, the Fuxin Mining Bureau prepared to build the "Class Education Exhibition Hall" in the mass grave in Nanshan, Sunjiawan, and excavated three large pits for group burials in the sorting out of some graves and bones. Two exhibition halls were built to maintain the original burial form on the original site, one called the "Remains of Dead Miners" (West Hall) and the other called the "Anti-Riot Youth Workers Remains Hall" (East Hall). In addition, there are 7 osteotypical and 1 white bone exhibition hall.
The east and west halls are about 1.5 kilometers apart. The tomb pit of the East Pavilion is dug from north to south, along the east slope, high in the north and low in the south, 16 meters long, 2 meters wide, and less than 1 meter deep at the bottom, with a total of 137 corpses and bones.
According to preliminary investigations, these people were "special workers" who had participated in the Xiacaiyuan Riot in the Japanese garrison and anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese miners who were imprisoned in the Ideological Correction Institute.
The bodies buried in the pit are divided into 5 groups, some are placed in a single layer, some are placed in 5 layers, and a total of 83 corpses or only exposed skulls are exposed after excavation. The west hall is divided into two pits in the north and south, with a spacing of 22 meters. The south pit is dug on the slope of the ditch, the east is high and the west is low, the height difference is about 1 meter, the north and south are 11.1 meters long, the width is 3.5 meters, and the depth of the pit is less than 1 meter.
There were 52 corpses buried in the pit, and the lower limbs of the 4 corpses were crossed and pressed in two rows. The north pit is flat and low, 13 meters long from north to south, 3.5 meters wide and about 1 meter deep. There were 58 corpses buried in the pit, and the corpses were laid flat in a single layer. Among the bones exposed in the two pits, there were mutilated limbs, and some of the limb bones, vertebrae, and ribs were broken or the skull was pierced or broken.
It is not difficult to imagine the brutal torture of the miners who died. Among them, there is also a corpse skeleton, with both arms on the ground, legs pushed back, upper body upright, head slightly raised, lying on top of other corpses (all the corpses in the pit are single corpses swinging on their backs), showing a forward crawling trend, showing that he was buried alive and intended to climb out at that time.
The Sunjiawan mass grave is a witness to the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in killing the Chinese people, a microcosm of the tragic poisoning of the Chinese people, a historical relic left behind by the massacre and mutilation of the Chinese people during the Japanese imperialist invasion of China, and a historical evidence of Japan's invasion of China.
Jinan Pipa Mountain Mass Grave, located in the east of Jiwei Road, Huaiyin District, Jinan, is now Jinan Trial Gold Group, Jinan Patriotism Education Base.
It is a "mass grave" created by the Japanese invaders in the occupied area of Jinan, which is used to bury the corpses of our country's anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians who were slaughtered in Pipa Mountain. The "mass grave" is 42 meters long from east to west. It is 40 meters wide from north to south and covers an area of 1,680 square meters. Jinan Test Machine Factory (now Jinan Test Group) since the establishment of the factory in the 50s of the 20th century, every time the plant is expanded, a large number of bones have been excavated.
On December 27, 1937, after the Japanese invading army invaded and occupied Jinan, the 12th Army and the 43rd Army under the jurisdiction of the Japanese North China Front Army. In the autumn of 1940, the people of Jinan were forced to dig pits and build walls, forts, and murder bases at the foot of Pipa Mountain in the western suburbs.
From the winter of 1940 to the autumn of 1945, the invading Japanese army would arrest or capture Shandong during its occupation of Shandong
The captured anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians were escorted to Ji for trial and massacred in Pipa Mountain in the western suburbs, leaving behind a "mass grave".
The Japanese invading army brutally slaughtered our anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians countless times at the foot of Pipa Mountain. Some were used as targets for shooting exercises, some were used as targets for bayonet fighting, some were doused with kerosene and burned to death, some were buried alive, some were bitten alive by Japanese wolf dogs, and some were gouged out of their eyes and livers......
The Japanese were so arrogant that they sometimes killed every other day, varying in number each time. There are a few people, and dozens of people at most. Hundreds.
The confession of Yoshiyuki Sonoda, a Japanese war criminal and adviser to the puppet Shandong government, said: "In mid-February 1943,...... The Japanese army carried out sweeping operations centered on Yishui, Laiwu, Mengyin and other areas, shooting and killing more than 1,500 military and political personnel and anti-Japanese people of the Eighth Route and arresting more than 800 people,...... Most of them were tortured and killed, and 75 were executed. After a demonstration in a nearby area, a truck was taken to the foot of Pipa Mountain in the area of Baima Mountain in Jinan to be executed. ”。
In the autumn of 1940, the Japanese army dug a pit and built a wall, built a fortress on Pipa Mountain, and built a killing base.
From 1940 to 1945, the Japanese army massacred anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians here. The methods of killing were extremely brutal, leaving a hellish "mass grave" on earth.
In order to cover up the heinous crime of massacring the Chinese and the truth of the facts, the Japanese troops stationed in Jiji transferred and destroyed all the relevant archives after Japan announced its unconditional surrender.
From the end of 1954 to the beginning of 1955, the Jinan Municipal People's Procuratorate, together with relevant departments, carried out two excavations of the "mass grave" on Pipa Mountain, which lasted more than four months, and took out a total of 746 relatively complete bones, the oldest of which was over 60 years old, and the youngest was about 15 years old.
According to the scientific appraisal of Shandong Provincial Medical College, the means of death include firearm killing, sharp weapon killing, blunt force killing, skull crushing and live burial. This is ironclad evidence of the crimes of the Japanese army. According to the confessions of Japanese war criminals, what has been exposed is nothing more than a drop in the bucket compared to the great crimes they have committed. Jinan Testing Machine Factory (now Jinan Testing Group) has been established since the 50s of the 20th century, and a large number of bones can be excavated every time the plant is expanded.
In 1952, Jinan City Test Machine Factory was built, and the "mass grave" was included in the factory area, and a commemorative stone monument was erected at the site.
1990 is the 45th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, in order to mourn the victims and carry out patriotic education, Jinan Test Machine Factory decided to erect a monument at the original site of the mass grave. The employees of the whole factory enthusiastically donated, and the famous scholar Xu Beiwen wrote the inscription.
On December 27, 1937, after the Japanese invading army occupied Jinan, the "Jinan Military Tribunal" was established in June 1938. In the autumn of 1940, the 12th Army and the 43rd Army under the jurisdiction of the North China Front Army of the Japanese Army forced the people of Jinan to dig pits and build walls, forts, and murder bases at the foot of Pipa Mountain in the western suburbs.
From the winter of 1940 to the autumn of 1945, Chinese anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians arrested and captured by the Japanese army and secret services were tried by military courts, and those sentenced to death were sent to the "mass grave" on Pipa Mountain for execution.
In December 1954 and January 1955, the Shandong Provincial and Municipal Procuratorates conducted two on-site excavations and inspections of mass graves. For the first time, after 3 days, two pits were excavated, and 4 wooden boxes and 8 mats were picked up for bones. The second time lasted 13 days, 6 pits were dug, and 557 bags of bones were collected.
The excavation of the "mass grave" on Pipa Mountain lasted more than four months, and a total of 746 relatively complete bones were removed, the oldest of whom was over 60 years old and the youngest was about 15 years old. According to the scientific appraisal of Shandong Provincial Medical College, the means of death include firearm killing, sharp weapon killing, blunt force killing, skull crushing and live burial. This is ironclad evidence of the crimes of the Japanese army. (To be continued......)