Japoneses (Series: Defeating the Japanese)

Author: Cheng Dong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: The Japanese came, the Japanese left—it was like a dream. The Japanese held guns, the Japanese fired cannons, the Japanese set fires—it was like a dream. The Japanese bared their teeth, the Japanese waved their claws, the Japanese laughed heartily, the Japanese screamed wildly—it was like a dream. But it wasn’t a dream; the pain still lingers today. The Japanese are now history, but they once existed in reality. If we have any responsibility today, it is to ensure they never become a reality for the Chinese again, never to step into the reality of today or tomorrow. Let us forever lock them away in the pages of history. Let our present and future only know them from books, while stopping and eliminating them in reality, never allowing them to grow into a new generation of Japanese monsters.
Besides killing at will whenever and wherever they pleased, the Japanese army subjected my innocent compatriots to countless more inhumane methods of murder, such as beheading, splitting the skull, cutting open the abdomen, removing the heart, drowning, burning, castrating, amputating limbs, piercing the vagina or anus, and so on. They employed almost every brutal method imaginable to a maniacal killer. Moreover, during the six weeks after the fall of Nanjing, they inflicted countless thousands of such atrocities upon my innocent compatriots every day. This was indeed a shocking and unprecedented record of cruelty. — Narrated by Mei Ruyao, Chinese judge at the Far Eastern International Military Tribunal, on the Nanjing Massacre.