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Date of letter:1992-10-13
Address of author:Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Date of event:1939-01-16（lunar calendar）
Location of event:Harbin City, Heilongjiang Province
Name of author:Yu Desheng
Name(s) of victim(s):Yu Huicheng (Yu Desheng’s father)
Type of atrocity:Murders, Biological/Chemical Warfare （MU, BC）
Other details:On December 25, 1938 according to the traditional Chinese calendar, my father was caught. The Japanese soldiers stuck my father with a poisonous needle and had him eat two apples. They threathened him not to ask for a doctor if something went wrong and beat him up before releasing him out of prison. My father’s condition worsened on the third day after he came back home. I asked for a Russian doctor who said that my father’s internal organs had been festered and incurable. On January 16, 1939, my father died of the poisonous needle of the Japanese gendarmerie. As a family member of the victim, I have the right to require the Japanese government to compensate for the death of my father and the losses of my family.
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Comrade Tong Zeng,
I’ve learned from the article “History Is Not Forgotten: Records of the Chinese People Demanding Damage Compensation from Japan” in Issue 10 of Reader’s Digest of 1992, where you have launched a signature campaign of demanding damage compensation from Japan, which has touched and inspired my whole family. As the family members of one of the victims, we strongly support your campaign.
My father martyr Hui Chenlie died on Lunar year of January 16, 1939 after the Japanese kempei gave him poisonous shots. After graduated from the Department of Architecture of Harbin Institute of Technology in 1934, my father was assigned to work in Haigeer Depot of Chinese Eastern Railway as an engineer. In Lunar year of December 25, 1938, he was suddenly arrested and escorted to the Japanese Kempeitai of Harbin on lunar year of January 2, where he suffered brutal torture. He was sent back to my grandfather’s house on lunar year of January 9. But, before he was released from prison, he was given two poisonous shots by the Japanese and ate two apples given by the Japanese. The Japanese even warned him that he must only seek care from them. He was not allowed to see a doctor privately if anything happened to him. On the third day after returning home, my father’s disease was aggravated, so my family asked for a Harbin Russian doctor (my father could speak Russian) to check him, who said that my father suffered from visceral derangement and couldn’t cure him. My father was sent to the municipal hospital on lunar year of January 15. But the Japanese refused to treat him (under the order of the Japanese Kempeitai). In the end, my father died in the corridor of the hospital. He has been buried in Pingfang District, Harbin City since then. After the establishment of the new China, due to reasons such as the extreme-leftist line, it wasn’t until July 1982 that the Ministry of Civil Affairs issued a martyr certificate to prove that my father was an anti-Japanese patriot (Martyr Certificate No. 010080).
As a martyr’s family members, we always believe this thing cannot be neglected. So, when we know that you’ve done so much work on similar matters, we feel we are obliged to do our part by providing evidence for you and joining your signature campaign. We hope we can get in touch with you.
Best regards,
Martyr’s children:
Yu Desheng, Harbin Jiancheng Machinery Plant, retired.
Yu Dehou, Liaoning Branch of Harbin Power Plant Equipment Company
Yu Hailan, Standards and Metrology Department of Harbin Boiler Plant
Yu Ping, Science and Technology Association, Caitun Coal-Washing Plant, Benxi City, Liaoning Province
<p style=”text-align:right;”>Address: No. 60, Zhongshan Road, Xiangfang District, Harbin City
(150036)
Yu Desheng
October 13, 1992</p>
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