Gando Massacre

Gando massacre
LocationEastern Manchuria
DateOctober 1920 (1920-10) – April 1921 (1921-04)
TargetKoreans in China[1]
National Army troops
Attack type
Massacre
WeaponsGun, Japanese sword and bamboo spear[1]
Deathsat least 5,000 civilians[2][3]
Injuredunknown
PerpetratorsImperial Japanese Army
Gando massacre
Kantō incident
Kanji間島事件
Hiraganaかんとうじけん
Transcriptions
Revised HepburnKantō jiken
Gando massacre on Gyeongsin
Hangul경신간도학살사건
Hanja庚申間島虐殺事件
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationGyeongsin gando haksalsageon
McCune–ReischauerKyŏngsin kando haksalsagŏn
Gando massacre
Hangul간도참변
Hanja間島慘變
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationGando chambyeon
McCune–ReischauerKando ch'ambyŏn
Gyeongsin massacre
Hangul경신참변
Hanja庚申慘變
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationGyeongsin chambyeon
McCune–ReischauerKyŏngsin ch'ambyŏn

The Gando massacre was a mass murder committed by the Japanese military against the Korean residents of Gando (present-day Jiandao, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China), after the Hunchun incident.[1]

The massacre occurred over a period of three weeks starting in October 1920, the day of the Hunchun Incident after the Battle of Qingshanli. During this period, soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army murdered Korean civilians who numbered an estimated at least 5,000, and perpetrated widespread rape.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ a b c d 경신참변 [Gyeongsin Massacre] (in Korean). Academy of Korean Studies. Retrieved 3 March 2018. {{cite encyclopedia}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ a b Eckhardt Fuchs, Tokushi Kasahara, Sven Saaler (4 December 2017). A New Modern History of East Asia. V&R unipress GmbH. p. 196. ISBN 978-3737007085. Retrieved 3 March 2018. The Japanese forces then carried out the Gando Massacre, in which they indiscriminately attacked Koreans living in Eastern Manchuria and other regions, killing over 5,000 and burning down more than 3,500 homes.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ a b Suh, Jae-Jung (7 December 2012). Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development. Lexington Books. p. 50. ISBN 978-0739176597. Retrieved 3 March 2018. Within a few months, the Japanese contingent in Jiandao massacred thousands of Koreans in their merciless mopping-up campaign. They concentrated their attacks on Korean villages with well-built Communist organizations and where anti-Japanese sentiment was most intense.