Gegenmiao massacre

The Gegenmiao massacre, also known as the Gegenmiao incident,[1] was a massacre conducted by the Soviet Army and Chinese 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]

It happened 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. Refugees were shot, run over by tanks or trucks, and bayoneted by the Soviet Army after they raised a white flag. After two hours, well over thousand Japanese, mostly women and children, had been killed.[3] Chinese also attacked them, and some Japanese were chased into a river, where they drowned. Some women were stripped and raped by soldiers.[4] A woman was stripped and killed by Chinese after her child was killed by the Red Army.[5] They also beat mothers into submission[4] in order to steal children.[4] In the market a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, a girl for 500 yen.[6]

References

Citations
  1. 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.
  2. Ealey, Mark. "An August Storm: the Soviet-Japan Endgame in the Pacific War". Japan Focus. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
  3. Fujiwara, 1995 p.323
  4. Okushi, 1996 pp.163-165
  5. Okushi, 1996 pp.158-164
  6. Hando, 2002 p.317

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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