Grave of ten thousand people in Sanzao Island

Grave of ten thousand people in Sanzao Island

Located in Sanzao Island, Zhuhai City, southern China, Sanzao Island ten thousand people cemetery covers an area of about 4000 square meters. It is now a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. It reveals the cruel historical facts that Japan occupied China during the Second World War.

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Located in Sanzao Island, Zhuhai City, southern China, Sanzao Island ten thousand people cemetery covers an area of about 4000 square meters. It is now a cultural relic protection unit in Guangdong Province. It reveals the cruel historical facts that Japan occupied China during the Second World War.

Massacres

Sanzao island "wanrenfen" is located in zhulishan, Sanzao town. After the July 7 Lugouqiao Incident, the Japanese imperialists launched a comprehensive war of aggression against China. On January 17, 1938, more than 6000 Japanese troops landed in Liantang Bay, Sanzao island. After landing, the Japanese army built an airport in the south of the island and set up a headquarters composed of sea, land and air forces headed by lieutenant general Fujita. Sanzao was used as a military base for invading South China, There was a bloody massacre on Sanzao island. On March 12 of the lunar calendar, the Japanese army looted Yunong village and killed 386 people. On March 13, the Japanese army burned 36 villages and 164 fishing boats, including Shangbiao and dengjiawan. They raped women and killed children. They carried out the inhuman "three light policy" throughout the island. On March 14, the Japanese army captured more than 2000 men, women, young and old in Shagang and Lianyungang, respectively Tangwan beach, Chunyuan ancestral hall, Shiwan Guandi temple, Yulin Xianfeng pit, Qingwan and other places were collectively shot. In just three days, villages in the northern part of the island were burned to scorched earth, with corpses everywhere.

During the eight years of the Japanese occupation, the Japanese army killed 2891 of our Sanzao compatriots and starved 3500 people. At the same time, they secretly killed more than 3000 migrant workers from Korea, Taiwan, Wanshan, Hengqin and other places to repair the airport. After the surrender of Japan, the fleeing people returned to the island one after another. In 1948, they collected the bones of the dead compatriots and buried them in Shangmao village. In 1979, they moved the bones to Zhuli mountain. It was announced as a cultural relic protection unit of Guangdong Province in 1983. The protection area is 1000 square meters.

Commemoration of later generations

Sanzao Island exhibition hall of Japanese atrocities and criminal evidence

In order to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the victory of the Anti Japanese War, Zhuhai plans to expand the ten thousand people cemetery in Sanzao Island, and build a museum of Japanese atrocities and criminal evidence in Sanzao island with 8 million yuan. The plan will increase the area of the original ten thousand person cemetery to more than 40000 square meters. The venue of the museum includes a two-story Museum, a monument and a memorial park covering an area of more than 1000 square meters. Exhibition contents of the exhibition hall: mainly the atrocities of Japanese invasion of Sanzao Island, as well as the history of Chinese people's Anti Japanese struggle in South China, especially in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao. The library displays documents, evidence of Japanese invasion of China and historical materials with pictures and pictures, and carries out patriotic education. The monument is a place for mourning and sacrificing the Anti Japanese compatriots. The inscriptions are to be collected from the public in Zhuhai. Pine, cypress, chrysanthemum and other "gentleman plants" are widely planted in the Memorial Park, giving the leisure area a sense of solemnity.

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