Clear my innocence: the black fate of comfort women in western Yunnan during Japan's invasion of China

There are many women who were forcibly recruited as comfort women by the Japanese army in western Yunnan, but for various reasons, most of them refused to testify and opposed the cruel comfort women system implemented by the Japanese army in western Yunnan. Only she bravely stood up and testified, because she knew that this was not her own disaster and shame, but the disaster and shame of the Chinese nation. She is old Li Man Lian Chun.

In June 2009, 5438+065438+ 10, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee allocated 2 million yuan to build an exhibition hall for the crimes of Japanese occupation of the comfort women system in western Yunnan in Longling County, Baoshan City. Upon completion, it will become the fourth exhibition hall for crimes of comfort women system in the world after Tokyo, China and Shanghai.

Li Lianchun, an illiterate old man, once said: "I am poor. I have nothing in my life. My most precious thing is my body and innocence, but it was taken away by the Japanese invaders. I want to go to Japan, not for money, nor for fame. What I want is something that money can't buy-my innocence. "

Looking back on that terrible past, I don't forget that the alarm of history is ringing in people's ears again.

Last June+10, the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee allocated 2 million yuan to Longling County, Baoshan City, for the construction of the evil exhibition hall of the comfort women system of the Japanese invaders in western Yunnan. According to the principle of repairing the old, the exhibition hall restored the original comfort station built by the Japanese invaders in Dongjiagou Dongjia Courtyard in Longling County during the Anti-Japanese War. In order to ensure the quality of the exhibition hall, in August this year, Longling County invited Professor Su Zhiliang, an internationally renowned expert on comfort women, director of China Comfort Women Research Center, doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Normal University, professors who have been engaged in research on comfort women with Professor Su for many years, lawyers who have been engaged in international litigation on comfort women for many years, and relevant people engaged in anti-Japanese war research in Baoshan City to hold a seminar in Longling to discuss the exhibition.

Li Lianchun (right)

At present, there are only three exhibition halls in the world, which are located in Tokyo and Shanghai, China. The evil exhibition hall of the comfort women system of Japanese invaders in Longling will be the fourth, which will be built in wartime comfort station at the expense of the state. Professor Su Zhiliang suggested that the framework of the exhibition hall should be divided into six parts, namely, the emergence of Japanese militarism and comfort women, the establishment and promotion of the Japanese comfort women system, the Japanese invasion and implementation of the comfort women system in western Yunnan, the victims under the comfort women system, and the international claims, trials and condemnation of the crimes of the comfort women system. Professor Su also specifically mentioned that another exhibition room should be built for the victims-Li Lianchun, the first person in western Yunnan who bravely stood up and accused the Japanese military comfort women system, and Park Yong-shin of South Korea.

In the process of building the evil exhibition hall of the comfort women system in Longling, western Yunnan, the Japanese invaders, we look back at that unbearable past and remember that the alarm of history is ringing in people's ears again.

Sad cries in the long night

Japanese militarism's comfort women system during World War II led to the cruel destruction of women in Asian countries and serious physical and mental injuries.

1942 At the beginning of May, Japanese invaders invaded western Yunnan, Baoshan County was bombed on May 4, and Tengchong was occupied on May 10. Since then, the people of western Yunnan have fallen into endless suffering. During the Japanese occupation of western Yunnan, there were more than 20 comfort stations and some temporary comfort stations in the occupied area. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 800 women employed as slaves by the Japanese army in western Yunnan, including more than 500 women captured by the Japanese army.

According to Jiang Xingzhi, a retired policeman from luxi county Public Security Bureau, when he was a public security officer in the early days of liberation, he heard from witnesses that one night in August 1942, the Japanese army suddenly surrounded three villages in mangshi, including Guangmu, Manghei and Dengxiang, and seized two cars of Xiao Bu Shao (a Dai girl) with about 50 or 60 people. Most of the arrested girls never came back, only three of them went home. Among them, a person who lives in Manghei later told people what happened to her that year, and her children and grandchildren found out, and they accused her, and then she kept her mouth shut. Jiang Xingzhi also went to interview her, but she didn't say anything until her death.

The Japanese army has also established many comfort stations in mangshi, Wan Ding and Shefang. At first, there were only eight comfort women in the shelter. Later, a group of China comfort women were brought from Guangdong. Therefore, Japanese comfort women became the exclusive of officers, while China comfort women became slaves of Japanese soldiers.

At present, mangshi Town No.1 Primary School was a temple at the time of Japanese invasion, with a pagoda landscape wrapped in trees. The Japanese army once set up a comfort station here. Witnesses told us that during the Japanese occupation, nearby residents often heard the cries of miserable women coming from there.

1943,1February 7, the captain of the Japanese gendarmerie stationed in Mengga, Dehong unexpectedly announced: "/kloc-women over 0/6 years old, whether married or not, should marry officers and men of this command once they are selected."

According to Man Ying, the old branch secretary of Mangman Village, Dehong Prefecture, Wan Ding, when the Japanese army invaded Wan Ding, there was a thatched cottage at the foot of a bridge (place name), which used to be a brothel for the Japanese army. There are Japanese soldiers standing guard at the gate, and fifty or sixty girls 17 years old or 18 years old or 20 years old are living a miserable life under Japanese rule. They are not allowed to wear clothes. They were naked and wrapped in military blankets. They beg for food when they meet people. Many of them disappeared a few months later, and most of them were tortured to death. Before long, the Japanese soldiers brought some new girls to keep them playing.

At that time, there was a comfort station in Xiongjia, Guanghua Street, Tengchong, guarded by more than 10 Japanese troops. The Japanese army opened the partition between the Xiong family and the Yang family, making it a spacious comfort station. When the expeditionary force recaptured Tengchong, the Japanese army threw several comfort women here into the well and drowned.

When Tengchong fell, the Japanese army took a fancy to Yin Laohuan in Dongshan Village and threatened to kill and burn all the places if she was not sent to the station. In desperation, the local maintenance association had to send her to the Japanese military station. When the Japanese army retreated, she returned to Dongshan Village and became a Woodenhead. Later, she married a stupid husband. After the founding of New China, she was supported by the production team as a five-guarantee household until her death. In the villagers' memory, she always dragged her shoes, had long hair and dull eyes, and walked slowly on the village road. From time to time, she looked back at the unreasonable urchin who followed her and called her "Japan's old lover."

Xu Man Guo Jun, an anti-Japanese veteran of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, recalled: "On the morning of September 6th, when we invaded Tengchong County, I saw the bodies of Japanese troops everywhere. At the Japanese military comfort station, I personally saw 17 China comfort women and several babies stabbed to death by the Japanese army. It's unbearable that a comfort woman died with a bloody baby in her arms.

1944 On February 3, a report in Xinhua Daily said: "When the enemy soldiers were old (65438+), a club was set up in Xihua Street in Tengchong, and 14 women compatriots were forced by traitors. Every enemy soldier enters the entertainment, everyone gets 5 yuan's military ticket every hour, and the wounded on the battlefield are free. These women can't stand it and commit suicide in anger. "

On September 26th, 1944 Sweeping Newspaper published a report by war correspondent Pan entitled "A Group of Poor People in Tengchong City": When the Tengchong City Gate was not opened, the Chinese Expeditionary Force knew that there were still fifty or sixty military prostitutes surrounded in the city. 14 On the morning of September, the expeditionary force captured the last stronghold in Tengchong City and found a little girl from China in the bomb shelter. She was about 10 years old. She reported that she was taken by the Japanese army to wash the face of the comfort women. At that time, they were all hiding in a big bomb shelter. One day at dawn, a Japanese officer suddenly ended the lives of prostitutes with a gun, one *** 13. The little girl panicked and took a life. The report also said, "More than a dozen female bodies were found in another crack in the city wall. They were all blindfolded. These poor women vented their desire for the enemy before they died and were finally sentenced to cruel death. What crime did they commit? "

Pan Zhengshi also reported that as soon as the Chinese Expeditionary Force occupied Tengchong, he went to several comfort stations in the south of the city. Some are called prostitutes' houses, and there are dozens of rooms in a yard. Every door is affixed with the flower name and health examination certificate of the comfort women. The furnishings in the comfort station, like Japanese families, are likely to create an atmosphere of "this is home" to improve the fighting mood of soldiers. In order to hide people's eyes and ears, the Japanese army gave various names to many comfort stations, either so-and-so military prostitutes hall, so-and-so club, so-and-so entertainment department, or so-and-so villages, such as Cuiming Village and Qingming Village.

On a hillside of the Dayakou Pass of Songshan Mountain in Longling, Ramon, there is a Songshan garrison comfort station. According to witnesses, this comfort station is a simple houses made of bamboo and covered with newspapers. There is a small room for comfort women, ready to reward those Japanese soldiers who fought in the war. Most of them are Japanese and Korean women.

There was an old Korean named Park Yong-shin, who was brought here by the Japanese army from her motherland as a comfort woman when she was pregnant. In 2004, the old man revisited his hometown and testified at the former site of Lamont Dayakou Comfort Station. The old man died in 2006.

Li Lianchun, the only person in western Yunnan who stood up for his innocence.

There are many women who were forcibly recruited as comfort women by the Japanese army in western Yunnan, but for various reasons, most of them refused to testify and opposed the cruel comfort women system implemented by the Japanese army in western Yunnan. Only she bravely stood up and testified, because she knew that this was not her own disaster and shame, but the disaster and shame of the Chinese nation. She is old Li Man Lian Chun.

Li Lianchun is from Bainitang, Ramon, Longling. After the Japanese army occupied her hometown, she was repeatedly beaten by the Japanese army when selling horse grass. After marriage, she fled because she lost her virginity and was looked down upon by her husband's family. On the way, she was taken into Ramon comfort station by the Japanese army and became a comfort woman. In the comfort station, she went to Lacrimosa every day and was often beaten by the foreman. She tried to escape many times, but failed because the Japanese sentry was too strict. About a year later, with the help of compatriots working in the comfort station, she escaped from the tiger's mouth.

The author visited her home many times and interviewed her. Due to old age and illness, the old man's memory has seriously declined. This miserable old man died of cerebral hemorrhage on June 65438+10/October 65438 +00.

In the Ramon comfort station where Li Lianchun stayed, there are about 20 comfort women from China, most of whom are local women dragged by the Japanese military, 15 comfort women from North Korea (some are said to be from northeast China) and three or four women from Myanmar, in addition to several Japanese comfort women. These comfort women have different endings, but they are all tragic. Most of the comfort women in China were killed by the Japanese army shortly after the counterattack in western Yunnan. "Selected Records of Songshan Testimony in Longling County" contains: countless women in enemy-occupied areas have been raped.

From June 5th to February, 2006, Jian Kang, a lawyer of Beijing Fiona Fang Law Firm who insisted on litigating for Japanese comfort women in China for many years, went to Baoshan and Dehong to investigate the victims of China comfort women. Her investigation was strongly supported by the Longyang District Political Consultative Conference, and the anti-Japanese war researchers in western Yunnan of our unit accompanied the investigation throughout. In this investigation, two new sites of comfort stations were discovered. One was testified by Li Man Zhengzao, an old man at Dagukou, Songshan Mountain, halfway up the mountain. The other place is in front of the cement bunker built by the Japanese army in Longling County, where you Tianci's old man testified (preserved as evidence of Japanese aggression against China and exhibited in Longling Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall).

Although those chilling years have passed for more than 60 years, the Japanese atrocities in western Yunnan, especially the cruel comfort women system, will never be forgotten by the people of western Yunnan. The ruins of the comfort station established by the Japanese army were still there, and the cosmetic trays, copper powder boxes and tea sets used by comfort women collected by Duan Shengkui, a physical collector of Tengchong World War II, were still there. All this reveals the unbearable era of being beaten and bullied behind.

Li Lianchun, an illiterate old man, once said: "I am poor. I have nothing in my life. My most precious thing is my body and innocence, but it was taken away by the Japanese invaders. I want to go to Japan, not for money, nor for fame. What I want is something that money can't buy-my innocence. " What a shocking sound!