Date of Letter:1993-01-25
Address of Author:Suichang County, Lijiang City, Zhejiang Province
Date of Event:1939, 1941, 1942
Location of Event:Suichang County and Songyang County, Lijiang City, Zhejiang Province
Name of Author:Zhu Fangqing
Name(s) of victim(s):Fu Jincai, Yu Zhengkuan, Fang Maoer, Xie Hongdeng, Pan Yongxu
Type of atrocity:Rapes, Murders, Others (RA, MU, OT)
Other Details The victims in Suichang County, Lijiang City, Zhejiang Province: Fu Jincai was raped in-turn by the Japanese Military and died in 1942; Yu Zhengkuan was shot to death in 1942; Fang Maoer’s house was burnt in 1939, and he was shot to death in 1941; Xie Hongdeng’s house was burnt in 1942. In Songyang County, Lijiang City, Zhejiang Province,victim Pan Yongxu’s house was burnt by the Japanese army in 1942 and he was caught and got killed.”
January 25, 1993
Dear Mr. Tong,
First, I would like to wish you and your colleagues a happy New Year! Wish you and your family happiness and the best of everything. Hope our cause can be moved to a higher stage in the New Year.
The form I sent you before was drafted by me. After some further thought, I realized that I had not included a column for petitioners’ current addresses. So, I drafted a new form and visited each family. I have just completed the new form and I am sending it to you right away. Sorry for troubling you again! But I believe this can make future contacts with each family easier. You may dispose of the previous form by sending it back to me.
Because I only have a middle school level education, please excuse my inadequate words, if any, and my poor writing. I hope we can be in touch and keep each other informed so that we can carry out our work well. What do you think?
Sincerely,
Zhu Fangqing
Liantou Village, Yunfeng Town,
Suichang County, Zhejiang Province
Postcode: 323301
Redact: For typesetting, the original table is changed from horizontal to vertical.
Signature form for claiming reparations against the Japanese Government concerning the harm the civilians in Suichang suffered during the Japanese imperialism’s war of aggression in China
