Fairness · Justice · Dignity (The Legal Basis for Chinese Civil War Victims' Claims Against Japan)

Author: Guan Jianqiang
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Publishing Date: 2006-07-01
Features: The invasion of China launched by Japan ended in failure. Today, history has passed a full 60 years since then. As living people, especially those who experienced that war, they feel that the war was not just a struggle between nations or a battle between armies, but also the massacre of civilians by the Japanese army, the rape of women, the destruction of humanity, and the trampling of human dignity. The extent of its atrocities can be called the behavior of beasts. As the organization that led the invasion, the planner, and the perpetrator of war crimes that violated international humanitarian law, in addition to being held accountable for war crimes, they should also compensate the victimized countries and their citizens. The demand for compensation from China's civilian war victims against Japan is a post-war unresolved historical issue. Time could have healed the wounds of war, but the right-wing conservative forces in Japan insist on dredging up old grievances. To this day, Chinese victims have not only received no clear admission of guilt, apology, or compensation from the Japanese government, but have also been repeatedly harmed by events such as Japanese leaders visiting the Yasukuni Shrine and altering history textbooks.