Japanese: Series on Defeating the Japanese Invaders

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 again become a reality for the Chinese people, to prevent them from resurfacing in today’s or tomorrow’s reality. Let us forever lock them away in the pages of history. Let our present and future only know them through books, while stopping and eliminating them in reality, ensuring they never grow into a new generation of Japanese aggressors.
Besides killing at will whenever and wherever they pleased, the Japanese military 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, and piercing the vagina or anus. In fact, they employed every brutal method imaginable by a killing spree patient. During the six weeks following the fall of Nanjing, they inflicted these atrocities on my innocent compatriots thousands upon thousands of times each day—a truly shocking and unprecedented record of cruelty.
—As told by Mei Ruqiao, the Chinese judge at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, regarding the Nanjing Massacre.