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| Gegenmiao massacre | |
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| Part of the Soviet–Japanese War, World War II | |
 Reports from the Soviet 39th Army after the massacre, 14 August 1945. | |
| Location | Gegenmiao lamasery |
| Date | August 14, 1945 |
| Target | Japanese women and children |
Attack type | War crime, massacre, mass rape |
| Deaths | Over 1,000 |
| Perpetrators |  Red Army 39th Army and local Chinese rioters |
| Motive | Anti-Japanese racism |
The Gegenmiao massacre or the Gegenmiao incident[1] was a war crime by the Red Army and a part of the local Chinese population against over half of a group of 1,800 Japanese women and children who had taken refuge in the lamasery Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (葛根廟) on August 14, 1945, during the Khingan–Mukden Operation in Soviet invasion of Manchuria.[1][2]
Soviet soldiers committed the massacre in Gegenmiao/Koken-miao (present day: Gegenmiao zhen; 葛根廟鎭), a town in the Horqin Right Front Banner of the Hinggan League of Inner Mongolia. The Red Army shot refugees, ran them over with tanks or trucks, and bayoneted them after they raised a white flag. After two hours, Red Army soldiers had murdered well over one thousand Japanese refugees, mostly women and children.[3] Angry Chinese civilians chased a group of Japanese refugees into a river, where many drowned. Soldiers raped several women and children, sometimes after murdering them.[4] Chinese civilians raped and murdered a Japanese woman after Red Army soldiers murdered her child.[5] The Red Army pursued and murdered a Japanese family that tried to hide in the trenches.[6] The Red Army also beat mothers into submission[4] in order to kidnap their children.[4] In the market, a Japanese boy could sell for 300 yen, and a girl for 500 yen.[7]
The Red Army murdered over 1,000 Japanese refugees by the end of the massacre.[8]
- ^ a b Mayumi Itoh, Japanese War Orphans in Manchuria: Forgotten Victims of World War II, Palgrave Macmillan, April 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-62281-4, p. 34.
- ^ Ealey, Mark. "An August Storm: the Soviet-Japan Endgame in the Pacific War". Japan Focus. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
- ^ Fujiwara, 1995 p.323
- ^ a b c Okushi, 1996 pp. 163-165
- ^ Okushi, 1996 pp.158-164
- ^ "Survivor of 1945 'Gegenmiao' massacre continues to tell tale". Mainichi Daily News. 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2022-01-08.
- ^ Hando, 2002 p.317
- ^ "As World War II entered its final stages the belligerent powers committed one heinous act after another". History News Network. 26 February 2006. Retrieved 2022-01-08.