Chapter 60 Ten Disasters and Hatred of the People in Northeast China

Regarding the disasters caused by the Japanese invaders in the Northeast, I have never heard anyone talk about it in detail before, and I have never paid attention to it.I know more or less the resentment of some people in the Northeast, but I only think that it is a matter between the Northeast people and the Japanese, and has nothing to do with me.More than ten years have passed in history, and it is only today that I wake up like a dream and feel the real seriousness. The members of the working group gave us a special talk about some of the investigation results of the crimes committed by the Japanese aggressors in the Northeast.I was a little skeptical when I heard that.He cited some incomplete statistics, such as the number of tragedies, the number of mass murders in some tragedies, the area of ​​opium planting, the number of smokers who smoke opium, and the number of profits from opium trafficking, etc., are appalling. .The plots of massacres and tragedies are even more heinous.When I heard it, I felt horrified, but on the other hand, I was thinking: "Is this really the case? If it is true, I don't know, why didn't my brother, brother-in-law, nephew and attendants tell me about it?"

I didn't doubt these bloody facts until I participated in a study conference for Japanese war criminals. This is the first time we have seen Japanese war criminals.It was later learned from the newspaper that the Japanese war criminals in Fushun were part of the Japanese war criminals detained in China.According to this conference and the subsequent release and sentencing of Japanese war criminals, as well as subsequent news, we found that these criminals had undergone unexpected changes in their studies.I will say more about this later.Now tell me about this conference.Although there were members of Fang Fang and the working group present at this conference, it was in fact organized by their own "academic committee". The "Academic Committee" is an organization elected by the majority of Japanese war criminals to manage their own life and study after they have realized their thoughts.At this conference, several Japanese war criminals talked about their learning experience and confessed many crimes, and some of them reported others.They answered a central question of study with facts: Did Japanese imperialism commit a crime in China.All of us war criminals from Manchukuo attended the meeting.Among those confessions and reports, the ones that impressed us the most and shocked us the most were the confessions made by the former deputy director of the General Affairs Office of the Puppet Manchukuo, Gu Haizhongzhi, and a captain of the puppet Manchukuo gendarmerie.

Tadanobu Furumi was a popular figure in front of the Japanese military. He and Takebu Rokuzang (Chief of the General Affairs Department) followed the will of the Kwantung Army and planned and executed the plunder and rule of the entire Northeast as the actual ruler of the Puppet Manchukuo regime.He specifically talked about the immigration development policy of occupying the farmers' land in the Northeast, the "Five-Year Industrial Development Plan" for plundering the resources of the Northeast, the opium policy of poisoning the people of the Northeast, and how to extract grain and other materials from the Northeast to prepare for the Pacific War, etc. Insider.He gave details of secret meetings, and staggering figures; every instance of the consequences of the policies he spoke of was a catastrophe.For example, in 1944, more than 15,000 laborers were requisitioned from various counties to build military projects in the Wangye Temple in Xing'an Mountains. Due to poor working and living conditions, they lacked food and clothing in the severe cold, and more than 6,000 people died. .Another example is that in order to prepare for the war against the Soviet Union, the course of the Muling River flowing into Xingkai Lake was modified. More than 1,700 workers died due to the same reason.

What I remember most is the opium policy he talked about. In early 1933, before launching a military operation in Jehol, the Japanese army decided to adopt the opium policy in order to raise military expenses.At that time, opium production in Northeast China had not yet been controlled, and there was not enough stock in hand, so they sold more than two million taels abroad. At the same time, they used airplanes to spread leaflets in Rehe to encourage the cultivation of opium.Later, around 1936, the planting area was expanded in the seven provinces of Manchukuo, and production was vigorously carried out. Later, the opium monopoly was established in legal form.In order to encourage drug use, "Anti-smoking associations", opium dens, and "hostesses" are widely set up in various places to attract young people.In 1942, Japan's "Xingya Institute" held the "China Opium Supply Conference" and made a resolution that "Manchukuo and Mengjiang should supply the opium needs of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere". The Puppet Manchukuo expanded the planting area to 3,000 hectares.According to Gu Hai's estimation, by the time of the fall of the Puppet Manchukuo, the Puppet Manchukuo had produced a total of 300 million taels of opium.In 1938, opium profits accounted for one-sixth of the fiscal revenue of the Puppet Manchukuo. In 1944, the profit increased to 300 million yuan, a hundred times that of the early days of the Puppet Manchukuo. It was one of the important sources of military expenditure for the Japanese war of aggression. .There are about 300,000 drug-addicted smokers in Rehe province alone, and there are five drug-addicted people out of 100 residents in the Northeast.

What the gendarmerie captain confessed were very specific examples.Everything he confessed was a bloody picture. He was the captain of the gendarmerie in the southwestern region of Manchukuo.In order to suppress the people, the gendarmerie adopted various horrific means.Murder is often a massacre, and after the killing, the masses are called to visit the corpse.Sometimes people they thought were suspicious were arrested, stood in a row, randomly picked out one of them, and hacked to death with a knife in front of everyone.He himself killed more than 30 people in this way.Those caught will be subjected to various punishments: beating with sticks, pouring cold water, hot pepper water, and kerosene into their nostrils, burning with incense, burning with a red iron, hanging upside down, and so on.

Among the reports of many Japanese war criminals, there are countless soul-stirring tragedies.The protagonists of these tragedies are more cruel than beasts.I remember a story like this: a Japanese soldier broke into a house, a young mother was sitting on the edge of the pot, holding the baby and breastfeeding. The soldier snatched the baby, threw it into the boiling water pot, and raped her. raped the mother, and finally inserted a stick into her vagina to kill her alive.This kind of story generally happened in various parts of the Northeast and in various occupied areas of the Japanese army.It turns out that this is the content of the "jihad". These "warriors of the imperial army" were the objects of my blessing, worship, and support back then, and they were exactly what I relied on back then.

Later, the prosecutors continued to send investigation materials, statistical materials, and complaints and reports from the people of Northeast China.The hellish scene in Northeast China was becoming clearer and clearer to me.I finally understood how many kind and innocent people died while I was subduing and flattering the Japanese Kwantung Army and trying to preserve my "title"; Patriots threw their heads and sprinkled their blood to fight against the enemy. If the damage suffered by the people of Northeast China is not counted directly at the hands of the Japanese rulers, but only indirectly received through the puppet regime and traitors, many examples and figures can be cited without trouble.For example, under various laws and policies related to food, the so-called "grain out of the load", the grain harvested by the people of the Northeast was looted in large quantities every year. , rafter surface, etc. mixed "mixed surface" to live.In addition to being used for military purposes, most of the looted food was shipped to Japan.The quantity exported to Japan has increased year by year. According to the official data of the Puppet Manchukuo, in 1944, 3 million tons were exported to Japan.During the last six years of Manchukuo, more than 11.1 million tons of grain were exported to Japan.

Under the laws governing grain, cotton cloth, metal and other materials, the people became "economic criminals" at every turn.For example, ordinary people are absolutely forbidden to eat rice. Even if it is found that they ate rice from vomiting, they will be counted as "economic offenders" and punished.In just one year from 1944 to 1945, 317,100 people were punished as "economic criminals".Of course, those who were arrested and released after being severely beaten were not included in this number. Farmers in the Northeast are being forcibly expropriated for food, but their arable land is also constantly being encroached upon.According to the "Japan-Manchukuo Plantation Treaty", Japan plans to immigrate 5 million people from Japan to the Northeast within 20 years.This plan was not fully realized, and Japan collapsed. However, the 390,000 people who immigrated in the last two years took away 36.5 million hectares of land from the farmers in the Northeast through the Manchukuo regime.In addition, the policy of "gathering families and garrisoning" implemented under the pretext of dealing with the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces caused the people of the Northeast to lose a lot of land, which has not been counted.

For another example, in order to extract the resources of the Northeast and build the Northeast into its rear base, the Japanese rulers, through the puppet Manchukuo regime, set up various names, cruelly enslaved the people of the Northeast, and implemented a barbaric slave labor system, resulting in A horrific death.Since the "Labor Control Law" was promulgated in my name in 1938, 2.5 million laborers (not counting those recruited from the customs) were forced to work without pay every year.Most of them work in mines and military projects, and the conditions are very harsh, resulting in mass deaths.For example, in the "waterproofing operation" in Liaoyang City in 1944, 2,000 young laborers were tortured to death within a year due to overwork, and as many as 170 of them died.Wang Shengcai, a farmer in Kaoshantun, Jiaohe County, Jilin Province, wrote a letter of indictment, saying:

Such families were very common in the Northeast at that time.Not only peasants, but ordinary employees, students, and youths who failed to meet the conditions for military service due to physical examination, the so-called "national soldier leakage" youths, had to engage in this kind of slave labor on a regular basis, which was the so-called "diligent service".Chen Chengcai from Lafatun, Jiaohe County complained: Those in the worst situation are those in the "Correction and Guidance Institute".In the late period of the Puppet Manchukuo, Japan's rule was already cruel to the point of madness.In order to solve the labor shortage and suppress the growing resistance of the people, the "Ideological Correction Law" and the "Security Correction Law" were promulgated in 1943, and concentration camps were generally set up throughout the Northeast, called "Correction and Guidance Institutes". In the name of so-called "bad ideas" or "social turmoil", the poor and unemployed or those who are considered to be dissatisfied are kidnapped and engaged in the hardest labor.Sometimes, without any questioning, passers-by are suddenly stopped, charged with the crime of "floaters", and sent to a correctional and counseling institution.After entering, there is no day to come out.Those who survived until the collapse of the Manchukuo, today complained to the People's Government of the Manchukuo regime with deep-seated hatred.A farmer in Fanshen Street, Hegang City, used to work in "Xinkaiji Manchuria Civil Engineering" in Hegang during the Manchukuo period. In 1944, he was arrested and taken to the pseudo-police station in the name of anti-Manchuria and anti-Japanese.Seventeen people were with him.After they were beaten, they were sent to the Hegang Correctional and Counseling Institute, where they were forced to dig coal in the Dongshan Coal Mine. They worked 12 hours a day. They only had a small sorghum rice ball for each meal, and they had no clothes or quilts. They were often beaten severely.He said:

Yin Ying, who was working as a staff member in the Employment Department of the Hegang Correctional and Counseling Institute at the time, wrote in the report: The suppression of the Northeast people by the army, police, courts, and prisons of Manchukuo was even more bloody and caused countless tragedies.According to some materials found by the prosecutors from the remaining official files of the Puppet Manchukuo, there are more than 60,000 anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians killed by the puppet Manchukuo army, more than 8,800 residents were massacred, and 3,000 civilian houses were burned. More than one hundred places.The number of kind-hearted people killed by the puppet Manchukuo police and secret service agencies is incalculable.According to the statistics of only 36 recorded cases, among the 5,098 patriots and innocent people who were arrested, only three were released without charge, and the files stated that the death penalty was 421 Among them, 213 people died in prison without being sentenced, 2,177 people were sentenced to imprisonment, and the remaining 2,284 people have no whereabouts.During the Puppet Manchukuo period, the Northeast was a world of policemen, and almost every village had policemen.A police station in a county is equivalent to a palace of the king of hell.The tragedies created in this kind of place are no different in hell.Huang Yonghong, a 61-year-old farmer in Bajiazi, Zhaoyuan County, was arrested by the pseudo-police department because he sent a letter to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces. He experienced a massacre.He said: This living hell has existed for fourteen years under the guise of "ruling power", "Emperor Kant", "kingdom paradise" and so on!All the brutal atrocities were carried out under my label of "ruler" and "emperor".Every victim was forced to kowtow to "Yu Zhenying", recite the "edict", and thank the "pro-nation" and "emperor" for their gifts.Hence the cry behind every indictment today: "Demand the people's government to avenge our grievances! We want to pay back the blood debt from the Japanese invaders and traitors!" "Avenge our dead relatives! Punish the Japanese invaders and traitors!"