Gando massacre | |
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Location | Eastern Manchuria |
Date | October 1920 | – April 1921
Target | Koreans in China[1] National Army troops |
Attack type | Massacre |
Weapons | Gun, Japanese sword and bamboo spear[1] |
Deaths | at least 5,000 civilians[2][3] |
Injured | unknown |
Perpetrators | Imperial Japanese Army |
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Kanji | 間島事件 | ||||||
Hiragana | かんとうじけん | ||||||
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Hangul | 경신간도학살사건 | ||||||
Hanja | 庚申間島虐殺事件 | ||||||
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Hangul | 간도참변 | ||||||
Hanja | 間島慘變 | ||||||
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Hangul | 경신참변 | ||||||
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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]
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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.
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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.