Gegenmiao massacre
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Gegenmiao massacre | |
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Part of the Soviet invasion of Manchuria | |
Location | Gegenmiao lamasery |
Date | August 14, 1945 ( 1945-08-14 ) |
Target | Japanese women and children |
Attack type
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War crime , massacre , mass rape |
Deaths | Over 1,000 |
Perpetrators |
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Motive | Anti-Japanese sentiment |
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The Gegenmiao massacre or the Gegenmiao incident [1] was a war crime by the Red Army and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria . [1] [2]
Soviet soldiers committed the massacre in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; 葛根廟鎭 ), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia . The Red Army shot refugees, ran them over with tanks or trucks, and bayoneted them after they raised a white flag . After two hours, Red Army soldiers had murdered well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children. [3] Angry Chinese chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many drowned. Soldiers raped several women and children, sometimes after murdering them . [4] Chinese civilians raped and murdered a Japanese woman after Red Army soldiers murdered her child. [5] The Red Army pursued and murdered a Japanese family that tried to hide in the trenches. [6] The Red Army also beat mothers into submission [4] in order to kidnap their children. [4] In the market, a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, and a girl for 500 yen. [7]
The Red Army murdered over 1,000 Japanese refugees by the end of the massacre. [8]
Aftermath
Survivors and their families designated August 14 as a day of memorial for the event. The ceremony occurs in the temple of Gohyakurakan-ji [ ja ] in Tokyo. [6]
In 2017, a documentary named Witness to the Gegenmiao Massacre was released, directed by a survivor whose mother and little siblings were murdered by Red Army soldiers in the massacre. [9] [6]
References
Citations
- 1 2 Mayumi Itoh , Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria: Forgotten Victims of World War II , Palgrave Macmillan, April 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-62281-4 , p. 34.
- ↑ Ealey, Mark. "An August Storm: the Soviet-Japan Endgame in the Pacific War" . Japan Focus . Retrieved 21 February 2014 .
- ↑ Fujiwara, 1995 p.323
- 1 2 3 Okushi, 1996 pp.163-165
- ↑ Okushi, 1996 pp.158-164
- 1 2 3 "Survivor of 1945 'Gegenmiao' massacre continues to tell tale" . Mainichi Daily News . 2017-08-11 . Retrieved 2022-01-08 .
- ↑ Hando, 2002 p.317
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Sources
- Tsuchiya Okushi (August 1976). 殺戮の草原 満州・葛根廟事件の証言 . Tokatsu Shoko Newspaper & Co. ASIN B000J6NAVG .
- Tsuchiya Okushi (June 1996). 蒼空と草原―殺戮の草原葛根廟巡礼記 . Ron-syobo Publishing . ISBN 4845510286 .
- Yomiuri Shimbun Osaka (1992). 葛根廟-新聞記者が語りつぐ戦争 (5) . Shimpu Publishing. ISBN 4882691981 .
- Sakuya Fujiwara (December 1995). 満洲、少国民の戦記 . Shakaishiso-sha . ISBN 4-390-11561-8 .
- Nobukatsu Fujioka (August 1996). 教科書が教えない歴史 . Sankei Shimbun . ISBN 4594020402 .
- Kazutoshi Hando (August 2002). ソ連が満洲に侵攻した夏 . Bungeishunjū . ISBN 4167483114 .
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