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Japanese's killings were so cruel, savage, their ways of killing are beyond
human imagination. They took killing people as a game. For instance, once,
Japanese invaders tied up more than one thousand refugees from several places
in a square, and made them stand in rows. Some of them wore long robes, some
wore suits, some were women, some were children, all bare-feeted. Japanese
first sprayed gasoline on their body, and then shot them with machine guns,
a big fire set off whenever a person was shot. Dying refugees being shot
and burnt, their body shivered in pain, it was a field of flickering flames.
Japanese invaders laughed wildly, took great pleasure in it.
(see: NanJing historical documents archive, Interview with Liu RouYuan
who escaped to HuNan from NanJing, "Massacres in the Occupied
areas", Vol. 5 )
Some
Japanese soldiers took scores of refugees to a pond, forced them to take
off their clothes and broke the ice to "catch fish", they froze to death
immediately. Some resisted and were shot right at the spot, and then thrown
into the pond. Japanese soldiers hang a young man for no reason at all with
wire, and put dry wood below them, bake him slowly. After half of his body
burned black, the Japanese soldiers left, shouting wild. One day, Japanese
soldiers set a store on TaiPing avenue on fire and then forced the clerks
to fight the fire. When people were fighting th fire, Japanese tied some
the clerks and threw them into the fire and burnt them alive. On another
day, some Japanese soldiers tied the hands and feet of some refugees and
threw them into a shallow pond, then the Japanese threw grenades, blood and
flesh flew all over, the Japanese laughed wild. In an other occasion, Japanese
forced several hundred POWs to climb to the roof of the Department of Justice
building, some knew they would definitely die, jumped off and died. Others
climbed to the roof, Japanese then set fire from below, the POWs could not
get down and cried painfully in the fire.
In another occasion, several Japanese soldiers broke into a store and captured
a young man, they forced him to take off his clothes. Then they poured nitric
acid down from the top of his head, his body eroded right away. The young
man shouted curses in anger in order to die fast. Japanese soldiers then
followed him, shouting and making fun of him, until he died. Some Japanese
gathered several hundred POWs together, scooped out their eye balls, cut
off their ears and noses and then burned them alive. Even more savage, a
group of Japanese soldiers gang raped a middle-aged lady, later they learned
that the lady was pregnant, so they cut open the lady and took out the fetus.
They took the fetus as a toy and played in the streets, met with a Japanese
officer, they wavered the fetus on their bayonets to the officer, the officer
returned a smile. The brutal killing game like this, who knows how many happened.
Hundreds? Thousands? Above, we only listed a few instances.