Seminar held in Taiwan to mark victory over Japan in WWII
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Taiwan and Hong Kong SAR have also held commemorative ceremonies to mark the 69th anniversary of China’s victory in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.
In Taipei, a seminar was held on Wednesday morning, with attendees looking back on that grim period of history. An official at the seminar said the war was important for people in Taiwan, especially Taiwan’s youth, to know that part of Chinese history.
In Hong Kong, the ceremony included a band performance, a choir singing the national anthem, a gun salute and flowers to pay tribute to the dead. Led by Hong Kong Chief Executive C.Y. Leung, about 700 people attended the ceremony. The Hong Kong government has also announced that starting this year, ceremonies will be held on September 3rd and December 13th every year to commemorate the war victory, and the victims who died in the Nanjing Massacre.
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Suzuki Keiku: We cut open the stomachs of the pregnant women
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07-03-2014
Among the written confessions released by China’s State Archives Administration on Thursday is one from Lieutenant-General Keiku Suzuki. The commander in Japan’s War of Aggression against China led a campaign of burning, killing and looting in China that also included the use of poisonous gases and infections to kill Chinese people.
From 1937 to 1945, Japanese troops rampaged across Northeast China.
Suzuki Keiku
Keiku Suzuki was among the top Japanese commanders who oversaw the burning down of houses, the murder of Chinese soldiers and the rape of women throughout North China’s Hebei province. And for the first time, the details of this devastation are available to the public, in the transcript of Suzuki’s confession after the war.
Confessions of Keiku Suzuki: “In Lujiayu, we used poison gas in an attack to murder about 100 cadres and soldiers of the Chinese army. We also killed 235 Chinese peasants seeking refuge in a village near Lujiayu. We cut open the stomachs of the pregnant women among them, burned down about 800 households, killed five captives to be delivered to Yutian and raped as many as 100 women.”
Suzuki also admitted that the Japanese military violated international laws and regulations by killing people using chemical and biological attacks that left more than 100 people affected by cholera.
Confessions of Keiku Suzuki: “In Linxian county, I ordered the Epidemic Prevention and Water Supply Squad to spread cholera in three or four villages. I also ordered the division field hospital in Huaiqing to conduct an experiment, using gas injections to kill people. This is evidence of violations against humanity.”
Confession by Japanese war criminal details atrocities
He confirmed that the Japanese military had set up several stations for the use of sexual slaves, referred to as "comfort women" during the war.
Confessions of Keiku Suzuki: “For the use of its soldiers, the Japanese military set up comfort women stations, luring Chinese and Korean women to serve as comfort women. The husbands and relatives of these women raped must be saddened by this.”
According to Suzuki’s confession, during his six-year stay in China, Japanese soldiers under his command killed more than 5,400 Chinese people and burned down or damaged more than 18,000 houses, but he said the actual number may be much higher.
In 1945, Keiku Suzuki was arrested by Soviet Union troops and was transferred to China in 1950. He remained in Chinese detention until his death in 1982.
A reporter takes notes while reading a poster board before a press conference in Beijing, capital of China, July 3, 2014. Confessions made by 45 Japanese war criminals tried and convicted by military tribunals in China after World War II (WWII) will be published on the website of the Chinese State Archives Administration from Thursday, which is 日本战犯的侵华罪证自供 Handwritten confessions, along with Chinese translations and abstracts in both Chinese and English, will be published by one each day over a 45-day period. (Xinhua/Shen Bohan)
