Atrocities of Japanese Invaders CondemnedA group of survivors of the invasion to southern part of Yunnan Province by Japanese troops 58 years ago recently gathered to condemn the Japanese troops.When Japanese troops occupied Wanding, a border city in Yunnan Province on May 3, 1942, they bombed Baoshan City and nearby villages. Yang Wu, a 104-year-old man in Langmaidi Village, recalled that cholera spread in the 13-household village soon after Japanese airplanes dropped cholera bombs. Some people caught the disease in the morning and died in the evening. All the three members in the family of He Cunzhang died of cholera on the same day. In nearby Jinji Village, more than 400 people died of the cholera plague when Japanese air force dropped germ bombs in the village. According to historical records, cholera spread across 58 counties across Yunnan in 1942, claiming more than 90,000 lives, two-thirds of whom lived in Baoshan County. Japanese invaders also tried the plague bacillus on the human body. Statistics showed 4,194 people in 200 villages in present Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Dehong died of the plague. |
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