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Signature for Demanding Damage Compensation Against Japan

China Briefing of August 11 (third edition)
Our government has never given up damage compensation against Japan

The Chinese government gave up (the nation’s right to claim) war reparations against Japan in 1972, but it has never waived the right of Chinese individuals to seek redress from Japan. The Legal Daily of May 23 published an article by young jurist Tong Zeng, in which he explained the difference between war reparations and damage compensation in accordance with the International Law: War reparations are paid by the defeated country that launched the war to the invaded countries for their losses, while damage compensation is paid by the defeated country that launched the war (to the nationals of the invaded countries) for violating the laws of war and humanitarian principles during the war and committing serious crimes to the people and property of the invaded countries. After the World War II, the Jews, the Polish and French people claimed for a large amount of damage compensation on the grounds of Nazi persecution. (Excerpt from Legal Daily)

The signature form provides the 14th group of households who were killed or had their houses burned down by the Japanese army.

Signature for Demanding Damage Compensation Against Japan

There are a total of 28 victims
February 16, 1993

The form is made by Ni Yuanmao (Personal seal)

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The facts about villagers being directly or indirectly killed or tortured to death by the Japanese army and their houses, furniture, farming tools, grain and clothes being burned or robbed by the Japanese army are provided below:

1. Ying Xiaoniu, male, then 10, living at Shimen, Changshan
After Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was stationed at Shimen in lunar October 1943. They used Shimen as a military base and built multiple forts near it to control the nearby Chinese soldiers. The Japanese army captured villagers and robbed military supplies every day. One day, the Japanese army captured porters at Shimen and my son was one of them. The Japanese army forced them to demolish a wall. When my son was digging the wall, the Japanese soldiers were pushing against it on the other side. He didn’t know that the wall was about to collapse. So the wall suddenly collapsed and crushed on my son. He was crushed to death.
Reported by Liu Lianhe, living at 13th Production Team, Shimen.

2. Tong Zhiqiu, male, then 21, living at Shimen
On one day in lunar May 1943 after Jinhua fell, 3 of my family members (father, elder brother and I) were working in the fields at Sihuakuang. Unfortunately, the Patrol Troops of the Japanese army saw us and asked us to carry stuff for them. At that time, my elder brother (Tong Zhiqiu) got up from the fields to wear shoes. The Japanese soldiers thought he was going to escape, so they shot him in his hand. He bled badly. There was no hospital to go to or medicine to buy during the war period, so his wound became worse. Then despite treatment of many doctors, he didn’t recover and died shortly after that. I am his younger brother Tong Chundi.
Reported by the victim’s nephew Tong Peiyin

3. Ni Ruiying, male, then 74, living at Shimen
On lunar April 12, 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army came to Shimen to capture laborers. When my grandfather was having lunch with his nephew, Japanese soldiers unexpectedly barged in. My grandfather’s nephew escaped from the house, but my grandfather failed to escape due to an old age and was captured. My grandfather was order to carry stuff. When they arrived at Lujia Village, he stepped on a water pool and accidentally fell down. A Japanese soldier shot him instantly.

4. Shen Qiaoxian, female, now 62, living at 1st Production Team, Shimen, Changshi
In lunar October 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army lived in my father’s house by force and ordered my father to demolish 4 bungalows which will be sent away to build a fort. They also robbed all of our furniture, farming tools, clothes and over 2,500 kg of grain. My mother hid over 320 silver coins in a bag and threw it in our pool. But the Japanese soldiers found it after the pool went dry and took it away.

5. Ni Jingui, male, now 61, living at Shimen, Changshan
After Jinhua fell, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were stationed at Shimen and used it as a military base. The soldiers often raided surrounding places. They needed to build toilets, so they forced my grandfather out of his house, demolished his new bungalow and robbed all furniture, farming tools, clothes and grain in it.

6. Ni Aniu, male, then 45, living at Shimen, Changshan
After Jinhua fell, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were stationed at Shimen and used it as a military base to control Chinese soldiers within tens of miles. The soldiers wanted to use our village’s shrine as a camp, so they ordered local officers to demolish the shrine. My grandfather was asked to do the job and was crushed to death by the collapsing wall when he was digging the wall.

7. Ni Acha, female, then 47, living at 11th Production Team, Shimen
In lunar August 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was stationed at Shimen and built dozens of forts near it to control Chinese soldiers. One day, I drove our cattle to graze in the fields and then took it back. Unlucky, a Japanese soldier saw me. Then, he barged into our house and took our cattle away by force. My mother took me to their camp to buy our cattle back with Japanese puppet money, but the soldier was unreasonable. He took the money from my mother’s hand and kicked hard on my mother’s lower body several times. My mother blacked out. I carried her back home. As there was no hospital or medicine store during the war period, my mother’s illness got worse and she died not long after that.

8. Ni Changle, male, then 46, living at Shimen
In April 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was stationed at Shimen and built multiple forts near it. Japanese soldiers captured laborers every day to carry supplies. One day, my uncle was sent by a local traitor to build a camp for the Chinese army. Unexpectedly, they asked my uncle to demolish a wall. The soldiers didn’t alert my uncle when the wall was about to collapse, so my uncle was crushed to death by the collapsing wall.

9. Gao Guoyun, male, now 77, living at 11th Production Team, Shimen
In April 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was stationed at Shimen and used it as a military base. Every day, they would ask local officers to send porters to build camps. One day, I was sent to demolish a wall. When I was digging the wall, the Japanese soldiers didn’t alert me that the wall was about to collapse. So I was crushed by the wall, half-dead. I was later saved by other villagers, but my feet were badly injured. Despite treatment in multiple hospitals, my feet wound didn’t recover. They still ache a lot when I walk. I’ve become disabled and cannot work.

10. Gao Bingcheng, male, now 66, living at 2nd Production Team, Shimen
In April 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was stationed at Shimen and built camps there. Every day, they would ask local officers to send laborers to build camps. One day, the Japanese soldiers, leading over 10 porters, demolished my family’s 2 bungalows and 1 hut to build camps and robbed all furniture, farming tools, clothes and grain.

11. Ni Guixian’s mother Yang Xiaoyue, then 32, living at Xiayang, Bailongqiao
In lunar April 1944 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua to kill Chinese people. My illiterate mother mistakenly took the poison due to a lack of knowledge, so her legs began to rot and ached badly. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, her illness got worse day by day and died not long after that. Reported by Ni Guixian, who lives at the 6th Production Team, Shibo.

12. Ni Guifeng, female, then 7, living at Hengdalu, Bailongqiao
In May 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua to kill Chinese people. My young, innocent sister mistakenly took the poison, so her mouth began to rot. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, her illness got worse day by day and died not long after that.
Reported by Ni Guixian living at 6th Production Team, Shibo

13. Ni Hongfa, male, then 5, living at Hengdalu, Bailongqiao
In May 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua to kill Chinese people. My young, innocent brother mistakenly took the poison, so his face began to rot. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, his illness got worse day by day and died not long after that.
Reported by Ni Guixian living at 6th Production Team, Shibo

14. Ni Hongcheng, male, then 4, living at Hengdalu, Bailongqiao
In May 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua to kill Chinese people. My young, innocent brother mistakenly took the poison, so his face began to swell and rot. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, his illness got worse day by day and died not long after that.
Reported by Ni Guixian living at 6th Production Team, Shibo

15. Ni Guixian, female, now 60, living at 6th Production Team, Shibo, Bailongqiao
On lunar August 15, 1945 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army was still struggling despite imminent defeat. They burned Hengdalu of our village, including my family’s 2 buildings and all furniture, farming tools, grain and clothes in them.
I was married to Shibo, but the burned houses at Hengdalu were my property inherited from my parents.

16. Shen Suzhen, female, now 63, living at 4th Production Team, Tangdian
In lunar October 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army demolished my family’s 4 bungalows (including 2 mill houses within our yard) to build a fort and robbed our property such as the furniture, farming tools, over 2,000 kg of grain, clothes, 1 head of cattle, 4 fat pigs, 3 gold rings and 1 pair of earrings (weighing 8.5 qian, 1 qian=5g), over 20 silver coins, and over 50 pearls which were hidden by my mother in a wall hole, causing great losses to us.

17. Shen Qiaoxian, female, now 62, living at 1st Production Team, Shimen
In lunar October 1943 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army robbed my family of 1 head of cattle, 4 fat pigs, 3 gold rings, 1 pair of earrings (weighing 1.5 qian, 1 qian=5g) and a string of pearls weighing over 100g, causing great losses to us.

18. Ni Xiaoban, male, then 23, living at Shimen
In lunar May 1942 after Jinhua fell, hundreds of Japanese soldiers were stationed at Shimen and used it as a military base. One day, two Japanese soldiers unexpectedly disappeared. So, some soldiers gathered all villagers on a ground with 4 or 5 machine guns installed surrounding it and were determined to find out the whereabouts of Chinese soldiers, otherwise all the villagers would be shot dead. At that time, a villager pointed to my uncle and claimed that he was a Japanese soldier. So, the Japanese soldiers captured my uncle to torture him by pouring boiled water into his mouth. My uncle was tortured to death by the Japanese soldiers.
Reported by the dead victim’s nephew Li Jinyu, living at 27th Production Team, Shimen

19. Wu Zhenghan, male, then 62, living at Tianmushan, Bailongqiao
In lunar May 1943 after Jinhua fell, my father was forced to do a small business to make a living. He would buy dried tofu at Luobu and sell it at Lvkuang. One day, when he was carrying dried tofu from Luobu to Dongqian, he was seen by the Japanese army. They took the carrying pole from my father and beat him hard with it. My father was beaten to death on the spot.
Reported by the dead victim’s daughter Zhou Jindi living at 4th Production Team, Ya’rao, Bailongqiao.

20. Yu Lanxian, female, now 77, living at 3rd Production Team, Lvxiantang, Qiubin
In lunar May 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army occupied Jinhua. My family hid our valuables at Gankou village on Nan-Mountain. But unexpectedly, the Japanese soldiers discovered and robbed our valuables at Gankou village, including over 400 silver coins, 4 gold rings weighing 30g, 2 pairs of gold earrings weighing 15g, 1 gold bracelet weighing 5g and clothes, causing great losses to us.

21. Chen Xiaosheng, male, then 3, living at Xiayang, Bailongqiao
In lunar June 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua to kill Chinese people. My young, innocent brother mistakenly took the poison, so his face began to rot. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, his illness got worse day by day and died not long after that.

22. Chen Baolian, female, then 5, living at Xiayang, Bailongqiao
In lunar August 1941 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese arm secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua. As all my family’s grain and clothes were robbed by the Japanese army, my younger sister went to the fields to find wild vegetables. She became weaker and weaker. One day she was very thirsty in the fields, so she drank some non-boiled water. She was poisoned like that. Afterward, she got seriously ill and died due to a lack of treatment.
Reported by Chen Baoyu, living at 2nd Production Team, Shao Village.

23. Yang Xiaonai, female, then 72, living at Xiaoyang
On lunar September 22, 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army came to my village (Xiayang) to capture porters, rob supplies and rape women. When my grandmother heard that the Japanese were coming, she and other 2 women fled to hide in the fields. Unluckily, they were seen by Japanese soldiers on the way. The soldiers threw them into a pool. My grandmother was unable to climb out of it due to an old age and was drowned. 1

24. Chen Bingjin, male, then 51, living at Xiayang
On lunar October 7, 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army came to my village to capture porters every day. One day, Japanese soldiers captured my uncle and ordered him to carry supplies. My uncle was quite weak due to a lack of grain, so he walked quite slowly. The Japanese soldiers beat him hard with guns. My uncle was bruised all over and couldn’t even walk. So the Japanese soldiers immediately shot him to death.

25. Chen Binglong, male, then 49, living at Xiayang
On lunar October 24, 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua. My father mistakenly took the poison, so his feet began to rot. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, his illness got worse day by day and died not long after that.

26. Chen Baoyu, female, now xx years old, living at 2nd Production Team, Shao, Changshan
In the first 10 days of lunar June 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army robbed my family of 1 head of cattle, 4 fat pigs and clothes, and burned our large closet and all farming tools.

27. Shen Gentang, male, now 78, living at 3rd Production Team, Xinban, Yaban
On lunar June 6, 1942 after Jinhua fell, hundreds of Japanese soldiers raided Nan Mountain to attack Japanese soldiers. They also burned all villages in Nan Mountain including my village Waiban, Yunyan. The Japanese soldiers burned my family’s 4 buildings, 1 bungalow, 2 barns, 4 beds, farming tools (plows and rakes, etc.), clothes and quilts and robbed over 200 silver coins, over 500 kg of grain and a head of cattle, tec.

28. Ning Jinxian, male, now 94, living at Duantou, Yaban
In lunar August 1942 after Jinhua fell, the Japanese army secretly used chemical weapons near Jinhua. My illiterate grandfather mistakenly took the poison, so his feet began to rot and ached badly. As there was no hospital or medicine in the war period, his illness got worse day by day. At last, he became disabled and couldn’t work, seriously affecting his life.

Reported by his nephew Shen Ruicheng, living at 3rd Production Team, Yaban.

The above is a total of 28 victims.

The signature form provides the 60th group of households who were killed or had their houses, furniture, farming tools and grain burned down by the Japanese army.

The form is made by Ni Yuanmao (Personal seal)
February 17, 1993