Linggu Temple

2005-7-28 14:06:33

In December 1936, the Japanese troops implement insanely massacre in Nanjing city. On the east of Nanjing city, the compatriots suffering cruel slaughter, the corpses spread all over the hillocks and plains. Because nobody come to lay the corpses in coffins, the debris corrupted and shed fishiness. When it comes to the next year of April, the Chongshan Tang charity collected over thirty-three thousand cadavers from the outside of the Zhongshanmen to Maqun towns and buried them in the nearby desolate mound or field. Over several months, there found a few of bodies in the hills and jungles stinking all the around. The Qingchengqi board of health of the puppet town planning superintend and director again gathered about thirty bones and remains of the victims in Maqun town, Maoshan, Ma'an, Linggu temple and so on, and buried them in the east of the Linggu temple.

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This gravestone is located in the north of Nanjing Gym College of the east suburb of Nanjing.

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The slaughterhouse at the foot of the Zinjin Mountain.

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The corpses nearby the Linggu Temple.

The victims: thirty-seven thousand.

"The million victim hole" is another iron proofs on the inhuman crimes the Japanese troops ever commited.

"The million victims hole" in the east suburb of Nanjing was found, Zhanglianhong think it is very important: today of fifty-eight years ago, Japanese declared surrendered at discretion, but until today, Japanese still refuse to open admit the history of aggressing China and Nanjing massacre, however, "The million victims hole" in the east suburb of Nanjing is a iron proofs on the inhuman crimes the Japanese troops ever commited.

According to the survey of college volunteers, the Japanese troops not only slaughtered over seven thousand Chinese soldier captives, but also commit an outrage on the local peasant and refugees. Base on the scholar research, before 8 December 1937, the Japanese troops haven invaded into the periphery battlefront of Nanjing city From December 8 to December 13, the Japanese aggressors arson, shot and rob and looting the peasant, raped the daughters of the local farmers in the east suburb of Nanjing city, slaughtered the refugees and peasant not only at home but also flee from a calamity, adopted extremely cruel means such as pop, chop, bury alive, drown, feed dog. All of this can prove that the start time of Nanjing Massacre was before the fall of Nanjing city and the site was not only in the city zone of Nanjing.

According to credibility information, some of the Nanjing historians choose today to investigate in order to know more about the historical fact and recall the victims compatriots in the "million victims hole". Zhanglianhong and many other historians appeal to us society: establish stele for "the million victim hole" as soon as possible, memorialize the soldiers who sacrificed their lives, teach us that countrymen should never forget the national humiliation, experiences of the past, if not forgotten ,are a guide for the future ,and call for the world peace.
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