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More than thousand war relics unearthed from notorious Japanese Unit 731 site

By Zhang Yuan (People's Daily Online)    10:40, July 30, 2015
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War relics unearthed form the ruins of Unit 731. The excavation of remains of the bacteriological laboratory, prison, boiler room and incinerator of Unit 731 has been completed after two years of hard work and more than thousand war relics have been unearthed.The relic of Unit 731 is located in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang province. Unit 731 was a secret biological and chemical warfare research base established in Harbin in 1935, serving as the center of Japan's biological warfare in China and Southeast Asia during WWII. From 1939 to 1945, at Least 3,000 people were killed there, and more than 300,000 people perished due to biological weapons. The retreating Japanese invaders blew up the base to cover their crimes before they surrendered in 1945.(Photo/Xinhua)

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(Editor:Zhang Yuan,Bianji)

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