Japan Invaders Kill 600,000 Civilians in East China Province: HistorianJapanese troops killed as many as 600,000 civilians in east China's Jiangsu Province alone during its invasion of China, latest research by a Chinese historian has found.Sun Zhaiwei, a research fellow at the Jiangsu Academy of Social Sciences and an expert on the Nanjing massacre, disclosed his new findings in a book titled "The Atrocity of Japanese Invaders in Jiangsu." Sun based his calculation mainly on a statistics jointly compiled in February 1948 by the Government and Temporary Parliament of the Jiangsu-Anhui Border Area and the Federation of Relief Societies for the Liberated Areas. The statistics show that more than 200,000 innocent people were killed in areas to the north of the Yangtze River in Jiangsu during the eight years of Japanese occupation from 1937 to 1945. Other statistics compiled in December 1938 by the then puppet government in Jiangsu says 83,600 people were killed by the Japanese in areas to the south of the Yangtze River between 1937 and 1938. Incomplete statistics based on historical files shows that about 33,900 people were killed by Japanese during the late stage of the Anti-Japanese War. Added to the 300,000 massacred by the Japanese after the fall of Nanjing, the then capital of the Kuomintang government, innocent people killed by the Japanese invaders totaled 600,000 in Jiangsu Province. The book also gives an insight into the cruelty of the invaders. A man in the Sheyang county had his eyes plucked out and the corpse cooked and fed the horse, for a sheer curse of Chinese traitors. At the Yaojiagou village in Gaoyou County, all the young men were massacred in a mop-up operation by the invaders. The village was later known as "the village of widows" The book urged the Japanese people to face the undeniable historical facts, which is a must to win the trust of the Chinese and all peace-loving people in the world. |
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